Activities and Fireworks for Food
February 11-15
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapters 11-12
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Workshop Activities
1. Craft – Pop-up Card
2. Key Points – Food as Traditions
3. Collaborative – Candy Science
4. Writing – Napkin Ideas
5. Math/Logic – Menu Math
6. Genius Principle – Mock Trial
7. Big Activity - Tarts
8. Movement - Food Fight
Minecraft Activities
Tea party
Food as part of celebrations and holidays
Food groups
Follow a recipe
Build challenge: Create the tea party scene
Upcoming Events
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Disneyland meetup: March 6 - Worlds of Words and Numbers https://www.celebrationeducation.com/copy-of-theme
Field trips – Trips are currently being scheduled! New trips posted here: https://socalhomeschooladventures.com/product-category/field-trips/celebration-education-field-trips/
2/20 Celebration: Tea With Alice: https://www.celebrationeducation.com/celebrations
Fireworks
Read through the fireworks and choose about five that you think might interest your child. Allow him or her to select 1-3 of them.
Do some candy experiments:
https://owlcation.com/stem/Skittles-Science-Fair-Project-Instructions
https://www.stevespanglerscience.com/lab/experiments/candy-kitchen-science/
http://www.candyexperiments.com/p/experiments.html
If you had your own restaurant, what food would you serve? Create your menu.
Use story starters to write your own short story: http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/story-starters/writing-prompts/
Hold a taste test with your family, possibly with baby food. Can they identify the foods they are tasting?
Divide foods into their food groups.
Make a food budget for your family. Create menus for a week. Make a shopping list. Estimate how much it will cost to purchase the necessary ingredients. Go shopping with your list. Compare the prices of the varying brands of the ingredients. Purchase the items that are the best value. Help make the meals you planned.
Create a healthy meal.
Eat foods from your own ancestral background.
Find out how bugs have been eaten throughout history all over the world. Try out some bugs: https://edibug.wordpress.com/speaking/
Hold a family cooking contest: http://youthgroupgames.com.au/games/67/cook-off/
Make some of the foods mentioned in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Some ideas: potion, cake, pepper soup, tea, bread and butter, mock turtle soup, lobster, tarts.
Play a food game: http://youthgroupgames.com.au/category/5/messy-food/
Start a food fight.
Hold a cream pie eating contest.
