Focus: Plants that grow from seed.

Activity, Butterfly Salad

Cooking

Objectives:

A. The children will explore different plants that grow from seed.

B. The children will taste different foods.

Materials Needed:

Plastic silverware

Paper plates

Ingredients = One serving

2 Pineapple rings

Lettuce leaf

Cottage cheese

Green olives sliced in 1/2

Food coloring

Celery stick

Describe the Activity:

1. Place lettuce leaf onto a paper plate.

2. Slice pineapple rings in 1/2 to use as an outline of the butterfly’s wings.

3. Use celery stick as the body.

4. Place cottage cheese inside of pineapple ring.

5. Decorate the cottage cheese with food coloring, pineapple slices and olives.

Questions:

1. What do you like in your salad?

2. What do you think your salad looks like?