Making bread
Frozen bread dough loaves are great for this experiment. Take from freezer, put it in a greased pan. Grease the top of the loaves and cover with waxed paper. Put in a warm place. Children can observe it during the day. Bake bread when ready.
Family Favourite
Ask the families to submit their favorite family recipes. Something nutritious, but not time consuming. Then copy and share with all the families.
Egg Beater Bubbles
Fill a dishpan or a large bowl half way with water. Add several drops of liquid dishwashing detergent. Show your children how to use an egg beater. Then let him/her use it to beat the water and soap into lots of bubbles.
Bread Tasting Party
Bake or purchase various types and flavors of breads. Cut the bread into small pieces and place these samples on paper plates for the children to taste. Discuss the types of breads, textures, flavors, and scents
Yeast Experiment
To demonstrate the effects of yeast, try this experiment. Pour one package of dry yeast, ½ cup of sugar, and one cup of warm water into an empty soda bottle. Cover the bottle opening with a balloon and watch it expand.
Grow A Plant
Grow a vegetable or fruit plant. Post nutrition posters.
Soda Surprise
Pour clear carbonated drink (such as Sprite or 7-up) into as many ice-cube tray sections as you have children in your class. Ask each child to choose a color of jelly bean, name its color, and drop it into a section. Freeze the cubes. (The jelly beans' color will tint the liquid to create colored cubes. Jelly Belly jelly beans will not work for this activity.) During snack time, put a cube into a clear plastic cup for each child. Have each child find a cube that corresponds to the color of bean he selected; then assist him in filling his cup with the same type of clear soda used to make the cubes. As they watch the ice melt, they will be surprised to see the clear soda blush with color. Using a spoon, remove the colorless bean from each drink. Wow! Drinks that taste like jelly beans!
Melted Chocolate
See how quickly the melted chocolate sets in small moulds. Use a stop watch to time it.
Chocolate Tasting
Conduct a chocolate taste test using unsweetened chocolate, semisweet chocolate, milk chocolate, and dark chocolate. (make sure the children are not allergic first!)
Ice Cream Melt
Go out on the sidewalk (on a hot sunny day) bring a plastic bowl, metal pie tin and a glass dish. Put one spoonful of ice-cream on each and on directly on the sidewalk (or black top). What will melt first, second, third. . . why do you think we got the results that we did? If the ice-cream is different colors will it make a difference?
Lemons
Ask your students (in advance) to bring in 2 or 3 lemons each. During meeting time, cut a lemon into slices, one into wedges, and leave one whole. Let the children check out the lemons and verbalize what they see, smell and feel. List the words offered onto a large lemon shaped cardboard cut-out. Offer some untouched wedges for brave tasters.
Observing Pasta
Clear bowl or measuring cup, water and pasta
Fill a large clear bowl of measuring cup with water. Mark off the water line with tape on the outside. Add pasta to the water. Have the children observe what happens to the water line over time.
Strawberry Investigation
Give each child a strawberry to investigate with a magnifying glass-they are so interested in checking out the leaves and seeds when they can see them enlarged
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