Food frenzy

[Marla]

Any suggestions for "food frenzy"?

[Kelly]

Popcorn is a lot of fun when you are discussing food. I used colored glue and the kids glued popcorn in a design of their choosing. You can make colored glue with regular glue and liquid watercolor. I also got some chopsticks and we attempted to eat popcorn with them for snack! I put some unpopped kernals in a cup and we estimated how many cups of popped corn it would make. You can also put a clean sheet on the floor and an airpopper in the middle without the top and let the popcorn pop! Be careful to remind the kids that the "duds" are hot! I like to read the book The Popcorn Dragon with this theme.

[Jezmom]

Spaghetti, Pizza, Pasta. or do you have seperate units for these?

[Marla]

but you guys gave me great ideas. I was going to have them create a plate of pretend pasta using with wool etc. I guess they could also create their own pizza and add toppings (it has to be out of paper though). Let me know if you think of anything else.

[Jezmom]

With the pasta unit you can get differnt types and color them. Let the children make pictures out of them. Have you been to the sites that DianeP suggested? There are lots of great ideas there.

[angie r]

I took ds to a class at the library and they made...... paper plates and glued yellow yarn to it for the spaghetti, three paper circles for meatballs, and a fourth paper circle taped to a short piece of yarn and then taped to the plate. Then they sang on top of spaghetti all covered with cheese...... I lost my poor meatball, when somebody sneezed. Then they pretended to sneeze and the "meatball" is blown off the plate. My ds just loved it!

[kat]

Winning float entry for our annual 100th day parade had a pasta theme last year. The float was a huge plate of spaghetti and meatballs made from clothesline and tennis balls. This was on a "little red wagon". The teacher and the kids wore white paper aprons and chefs hats with black handlebar mustaches. Title of the float was: "Mama mia,
we've pasta 100 days of school". It was adorable.

[Marla]

I am definately going to do the spaghetti and meatballs on a plate...I do it a little different...I use yarn for the pasta, but the kids crumple up brown tissue paper for the meatballs ( the 3-D effect), and then squirt on tomato sauce (red paint).

The float idea is amazing!!!!

Thanks for the great ideas!

[Ryleigh]

All this talk of spaghetti and meat balls is making me hungry. I was wondering what I should make for supper this evening, now I know. Just need a little garlic bread to go along with it! Thanks!!!

When we did a pasta lovers week a few years back we turned our sensory table into a big bowl of spaghetti and meatballs. We filled the water table with water and added a small amount of orange food coloring, just enough to tint the water without coloring hands or staining clothes if they got wet. Then we through in peices of orange yarn.(cut to about the lenghth of a strand of spaghetti) and brown pom-pom balls, along with spaghetti tongs and plastic bowls. The kids had a blast picking up the spaghetti and meatballs with the tongs and filling the bowls.:D

Another day my co-worker made homemade pasta with the children and let them cut it into different shapes with tiny cookie cutters. We then made chicken noodle soup and added the different shape noodles. No one said " I'm not eating it" that day!:)