Now that Halloween is over and we’ve all had our share of tricks and treats, it is time to start thinking about the holidays. A major part of every holiday is the FOOD! Thanksgiving is the perfect holiday to enjoy cooking and eating with family and friends. Cooking Up Fun is the perfect tool to incorporate these traditions into your classroom while helping your students develop basic math, community living, and adapted daily living skills!
Addressing the entire cooking experience from start to finish, Cooking Up Fun provides templates for shopping, cooking, eating, cleaning up and reviewing recipes. Picture Communication Symbols (PCS) make it easy to create recipes for favorites like mac & cheese, fruit smoothies, and ice cream sandwiches. Using Cooking Up Fun is a great way to “mix” math, sequencing, and communication skills into functional and fun activities! And the yummy “rewards” are built right in!
Use COOKING UP FUN to:
- Plan a Thanksgiving Day luncheon feast using Menu Planning
- Create shopping lists
- Create recipes for your favorite holiday foods
- Have your students make our delicious Carrot Salad and Fruit Bowl for your luncheon
- Help students to create personalized placemats
- Create a classroom cookbook for holiday gift-giving
- Use the recipes to include a cooking activity in monthly theme activities and special events
- Have students conduct taste tests to help increase vocabulary and exposure to a variety of foods and flavors
- Conduct a “Food Review” forum where your students can share their preferences and tastes
Buy Cooking Up Fun today and your students desire to learn will start to simmer tomorrow!