Name Games
Directions:
What's the connection between an avocado and an aardvark? Find out with this activity!
Hold up whatever ingredient you're using and say its name. You and your child have to come up with as many words as you can that start with the same letter as the object (they don't necessarily have to be food-related).
For example, hold up an egg. Immediately, the words start: "elephant," "elf," "extraterrestrial" . . . To give yourselves some variety, try thinking of words that begin with the last letter of the food, or words that rhyme with the food.
A more sophisticated version, for older kids, involves thinking of opposites. If the item in the recipe is round, kids have to think of a square food (box of cereal or brick of cheese). If it's soft, then the goal is to come up with something hard. Same with qualities like "bitter" and "sweet," and so on.
Now, then, what's the opposite of broccoli?
© 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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