Food-Label Maker
Materials:
- Art supplies
Have you ever read a food label? All you get is the percentage of fat and vitamins. The really good information, like the percentage of yumminess, is nowhere to be found.
Your kids can remedy that situation—and stay busy while you work—by creating their own food labels for all sorts of packaged foods in your kitchen. All they need are a few colored markers or crayons, paper, and transparent tape.
Even kids too young to write can join in the fun by decorating labels with pictures. Kids who have writing skills can invent their own ingredients that go into the cereal, the soup, and the crackers (high in cement and tree bark, and a great source of Vitamin X23).
Have your kids affix the labels to the food packages with tape—the next time someone goes into the pantry for a snack, they might be relieved to learn that their favorite chips are 100 percent lightning- and snow-free!
© 2005 by Steve and Ruth Bennett. Excerpted from 365 Unplugged Family Fun Activities with permission of its publisher, Perseus Books Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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