Thursday, January 28, 2010

Make Lunch!





I recently ran a children's program in conjunction with the Martin Luther King Breakfast in Portland, Maine. The event theme was Healthy Bodies, Healthy Minds, and featured two of my books: Feast for 10 and Mystery Vine. One of the nine activity stations invited children to create their own collage lunch of healthy food. I had some precut shapes, a box of scraps, scissors, glue, and paper plates. (The lunches they created turned out to be much healthier than the breakfast provided for the event!) Anyway, I thought this might be a fun activity to do at home or school, too--and might even inspire some cooking with "real" food.

1 comment:

  1. What a great idea to make a plate of food, out of cut paper...to do along with reading your book...and a great time as Thanksgiving is just around the corner. I work with pre-schoolers...so this is perfect!

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