Pregnancy
Recombinant Foods
Materials:
- Art supplies (optional)
What do you get when you cross a carrot and an apricot? Why, a caricot, of course!
Have your child imagine that he or she can combine various foods and create new ones. For instance, your child can combine two fruits, name the new fruit, tell you what it tastes like, describe it, and draw a picture of it. He or she can cross two vegetables, desserts, spices, etc.
As a variation, have your child develop a list of ingredients composed completely of "recombinant foods." For example, the list can include caricots, limeas (lima beans and peas), tunalmon (tuna and salmon), waterloupe (watermelon and cantaloupe), and walcans (walnuts and pecans). Then your child can create a recipe using those ingredients—for example, Very Strange Tunalmon Casserole!
Your child can then draw the recipe and add it to his or her homemade cookbook. So what do you get when you cross a creative kid with a fun activity?
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© 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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