What’s in a Recipe?

by | Mar 13, 2025

Make a list of all the ingredients that have definite measurements in one or more of the poems (e.g., for rice pudding you would include ‘two cups of rice’ but not ‘some cinnamon sticks’). For a younger group: Using measuring cups and spoons, have the children measure...

Perform a Poem

by | Mar 13, 2025

Arrange the children into small groups, and within each group assign each child the role of a food that is prepared in the poem, and one or more child to be the cook. For example, to make guacamole have children pretend to be avocados, limes and cilantro while one or...

Where Does Food Come From?

by | Mar 13, 2025

Choose one of the foods your group named before you started reading. Ask the children to identify all of the parts of that food (e.g., for a hamburger: bun, beef patty, tomato, lettuce, cheese). Next, ask your group to name (or guess) where these things come from. Do...

Find the Birds

by | Mar 13, 2025

Birds appear in each of the books in the cooking poem series. Have your group look for these beautiful feathered friends – encourage your group to find them all.