Fun Food Game

Ages 2 - 5
Need: different foods or snacks, 3 paper plates

Set out 3 paper plates, then find 3 foods that have different tastes to them.

Use potato chips or pretzels for salty, a slice of lemon for sour, strawberries for sweet.

You can also use peanuts as a salty food and candy as a sweet food if you have those at home.

Let your child eat one item from each plate. After she's done eating it, ask her to explain what it tasted like.

Help her describe each item so she understands what the different taste words mean.

Then ask her to find the sweet, salty or sour item once you've described the words to her.

Let your child cook with you, too. When you put a pinch of salt in explain that salt gives the food a salty taste.

A squeeze of lemon over fish gives the food a more sour taste against the taste of the fish.

Explain how sugar goes into cakes and cookies to give them a sweeter and not salty or sour flavor.

Explain how substituting salt for sugar would give the cookies a different taste. Probably a bad taste and noone would eat them!

Talk about how different pretzels would be if they were coated with salt. Or how chips would turn into a dessert if they were loaded with sugar!

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