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May 1, 2016 - Looking for an easy science experiment with dramatic results? The bread mold experiment requires few supplies and is easy for kids of all ages!

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The flu season is here, with the Centers for Disease Control reporting widespread influenza activity in 23 states. However, if you want to tell people to be careful, stats rarely get the point across. Especially if you're dealing with kids.

Jaralee Metcalf is a behavioral specialist who works in an autism unit with students in kindergarten through sixth grade. Recently, she and her coworker - special education teacher Dayna Robertson - found an experiment on the C.S. Mott Children's Hospital website, called "How clean are your hands?"

Image credits: Jaralee Annice Metcalf

"We chose this experiment because we had been learning about decaying leaves and mold and flu season was approaching," Jaralee Metcalf told Bored Panda. "We decided it would be an awesome mold experiment to learn about germs by using moldy bread!"

Together, they put five slices of bread in separate bags. One slice was inserted untouched, another one was touched by kids with unwashed hands, one was touched by kids who washed with soap and water, and one was touched by kids who used hand sanitizer. Finally, they added a slice that they rubbed on the classroom Chromebooks.

Mold started forming on some of the slices in just a couple of days.

The mold that formed from the Chromebooks

Image credits: Jaralee Annice Metcalf

Here's the untouched slice of bread

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The one that was touched by kids with dirty hands

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The slice that was touched by washed hands

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And the one that was touched by kids who used hand sanitizer

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And it worked. "The students were very involved, they usually are with hands-on experiments!" Metcalf said. "Since the results were so shocking, the students and staff have taken a very serious turn toward better hygiene. Students from different classrooms in the entire school have come to our class to look at the moldy bread and learn about handwashing."

Metcalf also wanted to use the opportunity to tell all the parents that hand washing isn't always enough. "If you send your child to school when they are sick, they put everyone at risk. Including teachers and our families! I'd like to urge parents to keep their sick children at home!"

Metcalf described the experiment in a Facebook post, and it instantly went viral

Image credits: Jaralee Annice Metcalf

Here's what people said about it

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Elementary School's Science Experiment With White Bread Is Going Viral

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We chose this experiment because we had been learning about decaying leaves and mold and flu season was approaching, Jaralee Metcalf told Bored Panda. We decided it would be an awesome mold experiment to learn about germs by using moldy bread!

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You can also teach them to pound playdough like they are kneading bread.
Provide different materials for them to add to their pretend bread playdough to decorate their bread.
Practice "buttering" or putting different spreads on their bread.
Lacing bread cut outs
Make puzzles that look like bread for them to match.
Do patterns with different shaped bread.

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The Montessori subject that I love the most, at this time in my child's life, is practical life skills. It is a joy to see my child explore pouring activities, transfer activities, cutting his own banana, and setting the table with wonder. We both are enjoying this toddler stage in life so much. Below you will find listed 6 practical life skills kitchen activities that Little Bee practices almost every day in our home.

1. Setting the Table

Little Bee has identified the difference between a fork, knife, and spoon and he enjoys matching them to his placemat. I found this beautiful placemat on the Etsy shop called Lilorfan. I placed one bowl and cup on the kid sized shelf next to Little Bee's toddler table. Also, on the shelf is a basket with his silverware. On the bottom shelf is a small cutting board with toddler safe plastic knife. Placing these objects within reach allows Little Bee the independence of creating his own place setting and to also choose to cut up his fruit/bread for meals.

Kitchen Tools for Transfer Activities

One of Little Bee's favorite practical life activities is transferring objects. My husband jokes that since Little Bee learned how to transfer objects from one bowl to the next, that he wants to transfer everything! He wants to transfer his eggs at breakfast time from one bowl to another bowl and his drinking water from one cup to the next. 🙂 In the photo above, you can see some of the tools that we use for transfer activities. Many of our kitchen tools were found at the Goodwill, online from the Facebook group called - Montessori Material for Sale, Target, Amazon, IKEA, and other stores.

- Funnel

- Wooden Spoon

- Baster

- Pouring container

- Various sized tongs

- Child sized glass pitcher

- Wooden scoop

For examples of how we have used some of these transferring tools, please visit:
Montessori Toddler in the Kitchen Fall Harvest Recipes: Montessori Style
2. Pouring Water to Drink

Little Bee loves to pour his own water into a cup to drink. He also watches closely and has learned to use the water dispenser on the fridge. He is very resourceful! He then will transfer the water pitcher to the table where he pours it into his glass cup. Little Bee is 23 months old. (The chair you see him sitting in at the adult table is easily pulled out from the table by Little Bee and then he climbs up all by himself into the chair. He does need help with pushing the chair close to the table once he is sitting in it.)

Montessori Kid Kitchen Tools

Pictured above is our kid kitchen tools that we have collected so far. I still have several items on my wish list for our kitchen tools, such as an apple slicer, child sized rolling pin, and a wavy knife. All of these fun kid sized tools encourage a young (toddler/preschooler) child to enjoy helping in the kitchen. You would be surprised at what a two year old is able to accomplish! I will list the items in the photo above:

- Child sized cheese grater

- Banana slicer

- Child sized spatulas

- Butter knife

- Child safe plastic knife (these can be found on Amazon)

- Small child sized citrus juicer

- Safe vegetable peeler

3. Sectioning a Banana

Little Bee really enjoyed using his banana slicer to section his banana into bite sized pieces. He's not a huge fan of bananas, but slicing the banana by himself made it more fun to eat! He liked taking the pieces of the banana out of the slots and then trying to put them back in... like a puzzle. LOL!

4. Cutting Bread

This plastic knife easily cuts soft fruits, bread, and other soft foods. The bread did take a bit of back and forth force with the knife to cut a slice. Little Bee is not old enough to do this successfully yet. However, he did enjoy cutting (as well as breaking) off smaller pieces from the slice of bread that I cut for him. He also felt very grown up and privileged while holding the child safe knife.

5. Peeling a Carrot

Little Bee did a great job with managing the peeler and holding the carrot at the same time. After every few strokes of the peeler on the carrot, he would lift the carrot to his mouth and take a bite. Yum! 🙂

6. Cleaning Up

Little Bee loves to help clean up any messes in the kitchen, as long as it is a game of some sort. Managing the broom and dustpan while sweeping up dirt on the floor is a fun game to Little Bee. He knows where his broom and dustpan are located and will independently get them when a mess is made. He also enjoys using the various sponges and spray bottle in his cleaning kit.

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The Montessori subject that I love the most, at this time in my child's life, is practical life skills. It is a joy to see my child explore pouring activities, transfer activities, cutting his own banana, and setting the table with wonder. We both are enjoying this toddler stage in life so much.

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Change your dramatic play center into a bakery and embed a ton of learning into their play! Bakery is a fun theme to do in your dramatic play center anytime during the year and extra fun during the holidays. Everyone is baking cookies, pies, and all sorts of yummy treats. And if they aren't the ones baking, they will be visiting a bakery. Want all the bakery printables? Go grab Bakery Dramatic Play.

This is what our bakery looked like at the END of our 6-week theme. Let me explain my timeline. Each week we focused on different items found in a bakery. The first week, we set up the bakery. Week two we baked cookies, week three we baked cupcakes/cakes, week four was donuts/milk, week five was bread, and week six was gingerbread. Each week I slowly added props related to our weekly theme to keep students excited and interested in the bakery.

This is the baker's shelf at the END of our theme. We started with JUST the basics so students could learn how to play with and use the props appropriately. I added a ton of empty boxes of real ingredients to add environmental print so students were "reading" the boxes as they play. The photos on the wall are from wall calendars.

The bakers used play dough to create all sorts of yummy treats. I used a basic cook play dough recipe with no food coloring added. By using dough, students were strengthening their fine motor muscles as well as their upper arms and shoulders.

Week 3, I added these icing bags and empty icing containers. I painted a few cotton balls and placed them in a baggie with the zipper part cut off. Then I put a rubber band around the middle.

They LOVED using the icing bags to decorate their cupcakes, cakes, and cookies!

Students always make a ton of the props for all the dramatic play themes we do and this theme is no different. When students make the props, they are learning and becoming more invested in their play. Plus you don't have to go out and buy a ton of props.

Students made paper cookies, cakes, cinnamon rolls, and donuts. In the art center, students cut out shapes, painted(iced) their paper cookies, and added glitter (sprinkles). I put out a cookie tray for a drying rack!

Look at our bakery case! It is filled with all kinds of delicious goodies. The items on the top shelf were all made from Model Magic. You could also use air dry clay to make items for the bakery.

Every bakery has to make holiday and birthday cakes. And what do most holiday cakes and birthday cakes have on the top? WORDS! So students were writing during play!

Make a cake book out of an old binder so customers can order the cake they want. As customers looked through the book, they "read" the words on the cakes.

The bakery counter is where customers order, pick up, and payed. The bakery assistant worked the counter. For small group, students created a bakery collage from magazines and ads to decorate the front of the counter.

When customer ordered the bakery assistant filled out and order form..

Customers had to pay for their yummy goodies.

When the customer payed, the baker's assistant wrote a receipt. Students LOVED writing receipts from those rolls of paper. I always add a number line for support next to the cash register.

Isn't this delivery truck the cutest! I just added a few signs, bakery boxes, bags, and yummy treats to a shopping cart. The delivery driver would drive to other centers selling and delivering orders to other students. It is a perfect role for those kids who need to move.

The bakery was a busy place as you can see. Students were constantly building theme vocabulary and conversational skills during pretend play.

Students were sharing, waiting, taking turns, solving problems, sharing space, working together, controlling their impulses, and building self regulating as they play. Look at all those social skills students were developing! Dramatic play is so important for little learners.

I know you want to try changing your dramatic play center into a Bakery. I've made all the printables for you plus a ton of teacher information pages, a parent letter, and included more classroom photographs to help you plan your Bakery. Just click the image below to go grab Bakery Dramatic Play.

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Change your dramatic play center into a bakery and embed a ton of learning into their play! Bakery is a fun theme to do in your dramatic play center anytime during the year and extra fun during the holidays. Everyone is baking cookies, pies, and all sorts of yummy treats.

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Our Dramatic Play Bakery Shop has been a fun center for the children to learn and play this month in January. Each month, I have been posting dramatic play centers from our classroom. Look for more Dramatic Play centers here.

This is the front of our Bakery. I changed our awning to blue and white (this is bulletin board paper that I used to cover the awning). I added a "Bakery" pennant banner (from Pre-K Pages).

I bought these little chalkboard signs (Michaels, $2) and used bistro chalk markers to write on them. The neat thing about these little chalkboard signs is the chalk marker writing can be erased with water and I can use them again for other dramatic play centers. I think they would be great for an Ice Cream Shop, or Garden Shop, or Lemonade Stand.

I also picked up this little chalkboard easel (Michaels, $6) to make a sign for "Bakery Specials". Many children will be able to count out 10 cookies and 2 dollar bills from our play money to get in a little counting practice.

On the top shelf, we have cupcakes, cinnamon rolls, cookies, and chalkboard sign. On the middle shelf, we have bakery boxes, chocolate chip cookies, and more cookies. On the bottom, we have baskets with bakery tools.

These little cupcakes are sold with Easter eggs in the Spring. I see them in the stores every year. The tops do come off the bottoms, but the kids have not opened them (I'm guessing maybe they fit too tight and the kids can't open them, or don't know they open). These are in mini muffin pans.

I made the cinnamon rolls with felt. I cut tan and brown felt into strips, then rolled the felt strips, and hot-glued the ends. These are in a Dollar Tree regular-size muffin pan ($1).

I made these cookies with wooden circles from Michaels (they were something like $0.30 each, I think). I painted them with tan acrylic craft paint and then painted with colored acrylic paint on top. This is a Dollar Tree pan.

The chocolate chip cookies were made with the same wooden circles, tan acrylic craft paint and dark brown paint for the chocolate chips.

A few years ago, I made these cookies using tan Model Magic and painted the chocolate chips and icing with puff paint. I love these because they are the most like real cookies - 3D like real cookies would be. The trouble is they break. I originally had a lot more of these cookies, but this is what I have left after a few years of kids playing with them. You might even notice the teeth marks on one! Even though they can break, I thought I'd share this idea anyway. They would probably work great with kids at home. This years' class has done surprisingly well: after one cookie broke, they have been very careful with the rest.

These are our bakery boxes from Small Cakes, donated by a parent.

One of the baskets holds our measuring cups and measuring spoons (from Dollar Tree).

The other basket holds these small spatulas (Dollar Tree, $1) and mini tongs (Hobby Lobby, $2). Just right for small hands!

These are our sugar, baking soda, and flour tins for the baking area of our dramatic play center. The sugar and baking soda tins are recycled tea tins that I spray painted and added a chalkboard label (Michaels, $1.50 for pack of 6 labels). The flour tin came from Target Dollar Spot ($3). I'm a tea drinker, so I always have these tins leftover, but you can order empty tins from Harney and Sons for $1.25. Better yet, buy Christmas tins during the after Christmas sale and spray paint them.

Our open/closed sign (from Pre-K Pages).

Bakery shop menus (from Pre-K Pages). These are laminated and the kids use these with dry erase markers.

We have a recipe book in our dramatic play house area all year, and children can use it with the Bakery Shop also. The recipe book is made with a "presentation book" from an office supply store, with kid-friendly recipe pages in the page protectors.

This is our kitchen area that stays in our House Center all year. Children can use these items to pretend to bake things for the Bakery Shop.

What do you have in your Bakery Dramatic Play Shop? Please share your ideas in the comments section below!

Where it Came From:

I used several printable items from the Bakery Dramatic Play Pack which is sold at Vanessa's site, Pre-K Pages.

The market shelf with awning is the " Village Store " from Community Playthings. This shelf is the toddler size shelf, so the shelf is not tall. We use it just to display our store items, the kids don't actually stand there the whole time. They come along and buy or sell something, then move along to set the table and "eat" their purchases. It works well for our class.

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Young children love to order sandwiches at this adorable Sandwich Shop dramatic play center. Practice life skills, math, literacy, and more!

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Pizza Restaurant in the dramatic play center: how to make your own bread sticks | Dramatic play centers, Dramatic play, Play centre

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Mar 18, 2016 - Pizza Restaurant in the dramatic play center: how to make your own bread sticks

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This super sweet cookie shop dramatic play center is baked full of fun! Students will want to bake all day with plenty of different roles to play. They don't even notice the secret ingredients of literacy, math, and social skills practice mixed in!

Of course, one of the most popular centers in any preschool is the dramatic play center. It's a place where children try on dress-up clothes and different roles. It's also a wonderful center for literacy, social-emotional learning, language development, problem-solving...so many things!

These aprons are online in a pack of 12. Staple the job titles right to the aprons - super easy!

Something's Cooking!

It helps if each new dramatic play area set up has some "centerpiece" - something that makes it look very different from the regular housekeeping center. At the hospital, it's the cot for the triage room. At the restaurant, it's the hostess station with menus. Here at the Cookie Shop, it's the big double oven! The doors open so those little bakers can slide their trays of cookies right inside.

This oven is constructed from 2 small moving boxes ($1 each at the home improvement store). Cover the boxes in black duct tape and leave one side open to create the oven doors. Recycled plastic from some packaging makes clear windows for each door. The doors latch with a tiny piece of velcro on the shelf. Real handles from a hardware store add a touch of realism. As a final touch, dials to set the temperature and a big digital clock finish the oven. Showstoppers like this don't have to be expensive!

Bakery on a Budget

Most of the items used to make a fantastic cookie shop dramatic play are available at the local dollar stores. These little ingredient canisters are from Dollar Tree.

Chocolate chips = brown pompoms

Brown sugar = kinetic sand

Flour and sugar = foam "snow" also from dollar tree.

Super-glue the lids and the students just pretend to use the ingredients to bake their cookies!

The cookies below are made from felt glued to cardboard (for durability), but store-bought cookies are fine too!

Cookie Counting

Incorporating math into dramatic play is as simple as one, two, three. To increase math practice, students:

count the cookies on the tray

write the number of cookies they want on the order form

count the number of chocolate chips added to a cookie (quality control!)

add up the price of the cookies purchased by the customer

That Authentic "Cookie Shop" Feel

Children love it when there are "real" elements in the dramatic play area. Using authentic baking pans, utensils, and timers is great. Make it even more realistic by saving some plastic clamshell bakery containers, washed well, and putting a shiny new logo on the top. Some bakeries may even give you some unused packaging supplies - of course, taking one home full of bakery treats to enjoy is never a bad idea!

Dramatic play is a fantastic place to incorporate as many reading and writing activities as possible since students spend so much time there. Labels on the materials, shelves, and nametags are all great ways to learn environmental print. Another fantastic way to get extra literacy practice is to have "order forms" where students mark down what kinds of cookies they'd like and how many. Organize these materials by providing a sturdy shelf or piece of furniture like the Create-It-Station.

Decoration Station

Working together to create the cookies promotes conversations, problem-solving, and turn-taking. It also involves sequencing and putting visual cue cards at the center helps students remember the steps involved in making a cookie. Of course, it's also perfectly acceptable to bake the frosted cookies when they are all made out of felt!

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Cookie Shop Dramatic Play

Young children will bake gingerbread men, sugar cookies, and chocolate chip cookies to sell at their very own Cookie Shop Dramatic Play with this fun dramatic play center.

Sweet Stories

Providing a mix of fiction and non-fiction books is essential for growing readers. Adding stories like these will make the reading area another invitation to play in the cookie shop or relive fun times.

Enjoying the Cookie Shop

Students require no encouragement to enjoy the cookie shop dramatic play. However, it is a nice touch if they have cookies for snack on the first day! Other ideas:

Provide cookie cutters at the play dough table.

Count out cookies at snack, or count the chocolate chips in each cookie and chart them.

Play a rousing game of "Who stole the cookie from the Cookie Jar?"

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Practice rhyming words with this Gingerbread Rhyming game.

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This post may contain affiliate links. See Disclosure for more information. This super sweet cookie shop dramatic play center is baked full of fun! Students will want to bake all day with plenty of different roles to play. They don't even notice the secret ingredients of literacy, math, and social skills practice mixed in!

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Nov 1, 2014 - We started our Community/Construction/3 Pigs unit last Monday. The idea of this unit came from my awesome next door pre-k teachers! I am using "The Three Little Pigs" story to transition into community/construction. In our class, I read the story to begin with and the students discussed the role of the characters in th…

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Also adding playdough for a sensory bin- you can cut different shapes and lay out different things (with a flip picture board) that bakers do to their bread or examples of pizza, doughnuts, cookies, etc. for them to make in the sensory bin area.

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Children are naturally little scientists. They are curious about the unknown and enjoy investigating new ideas. The class's study of bread began at the same time seasonal illnesses peaked. To help teach the children the importance of hand washing, I used bread to illustrate how quickly germs spread. A perfect way to introduce the scientific method and have a good time learning! We discussed the proposed experiment and defined the vocabulary. The new terms that were explained were: control, hypothesize, and purpose. First, the class and I made the observation that germs are everywhere, that there are good and bad germs, and that we pass a lot of germs with our hands. Next we asked how quickly do germs on our hands spread? The class decided that the germs will spread fast on the bread that they were going to touch with dirty hands. The class took a vote, and we tallied the votes, to decide how long we are going to watch the bread; the conclusion was to watch the bread for a month. The experiment called for touching bread with clean and dirty hands then to put the bread in plastic baggies for observation. There were three slices total. One slice was the control, the slice that nothing happened to and would be used to compare, it was handled with a glove. The second slice, the "clean" slice, I put in the baggie with freshly cleaned hands. The third piece, the "dirty" slice, was passed around the class; their unwashed hands handled the slice and passed it from one child to the other. After the handling of the dirty slice, the children cleaned their hands. The goal of this experiment is to see that germs spread quicker on the slice of bread handled by dirty hands. Therefore, germs spread a lot faster when we do not wash our hands. Hopefully the take away from this experiment is we all need to keep our hands clean to minimize the spread of germs!

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Yummy! Bread! There are many things you can do for preschool lesson plans with this theme in all of your interest learning centers!

Bake a loaf, do some experiments, turn your Dramatic Play area into a Bakery!

This bread preschool theme page includes preschool lesson plans, activities and Interest Learning Center ideas for your Preschool Classroom!

You'll find more themes to help you with your planning on my preschool themes page.

You can either scroll down through this page to see all of the preschool activities for your theme or click the link below to go to specific preschool activity types you are looking for.

Before we get started....
Check out the FREE resource download I've put together for yougoogle to supplement this theme!

Bread Themed Art
Baker's Painting
Materials Needed: pastry brushes (optional) or regular brushes, liquid water color paint in muffin tins, paper

Paint away!

Cut pieces of toast and bread and attach pincher type clothespins to each pieces.

The children dip it into shallow trays of paint and sponge paint onto paper.

Use cookie cutters to dip into paint and press onto paper!

EXTENSION: Use clean cookie cutters to cut bread and then toast it after brushing with butter and possibly sprinkling with cinnamon and sugar.

Themed Block Center Ideas

Add some baker's hats for the children to wear and add some delivery trucks and other toy trucks to your block area this week!

Themed Circle Time Ideas

Circle Time is such a great time for children to learn the social skills of being together as a large group AND to learn more about your theme!

Read this story to the children. Have pictures of each character ready. The children can add them to a flannel board as you tell the story!

In advance, collect items used by a baker: cookie cutters, measuring cup, measuring spoon, rolling pin, spatula, etc.

Place one of the items in the box without the children seeing what it is.

One child feels in the box, without looking, and guesses what it is.

Continue until all children have had at least one turn.

NOTE: It is helpful to have all the items out and in front of you to show the children and let them touch them as you all discuss what each one is used for before doing this activity!

Snack Recipe Ideas to Cook Up for Your Theme!

Cooking with children helps develop their math skills and helps them to learn how to follow directions. It also allows for some great conversation! Ask many questions while cooking with your children to encourage conversation! Be sure to ask specific themed questions while making these fun snacks!

Materials: small cups, milk, clean (unused) paint brushes, food coloring, bread

Make different colors of milk in the small cups using the food coloring.

The children brush it on and you toast it in the oven.

Colorful and yummy!!

Themed Ideas to Transform Your Dramatic Play Area

Set your dramatic play area up to be a restaurant. Add a table with tablecloth, chairs and a kitchen area for the chefs to cook! Have all the items they need to serve food: plates, utensils, cups, trays to serve with, etc.

Provide clipboards and pens and paper for the servers to take orders. Provide a toy cash register and money as well!

The children can help make menus! Ask them what types of food your restaurant will serve. Print the words of the foods and draw a picture next to each so they can "read" the menus!

Themed Idea for Your Easel--

More Than Just Painting (Although that is always THE favorite in our classroom!)

Try using pastry brushes instead of paint brushes this week!

Themed Large Group Games

to help the children build their muscles while they have fun together!

Provide bins or baskets and many, many, many, etc. plastic eggs of different colors.

Place a color of construction paper in front of each bin or basket.

The children toss the correct colors into the correct colored basket.

Using plastic eggs and large cooking spoons, the children try to carry a plastic egg from one side of the room to the other using the spoon.

Themed Math Activities

To Help Your Preschoolers Develop Their Math Skills and the Small Muscles in Their Hands!
Peanut Butter and Jelly Board Game
I really like this game! It is for non readers! It can be found on Amazon or at toy stores!
Home Made Dough
Use your favorite play dough recipe.

Make it with the kids.

Have them roll it into snake shapes (they are already good at this!) and make shapes or letters out of it.

EXTENSION: In the past, I have made block letters (capital letters) on paper and then laminated them.

The children choose a card and shape their dough into that shape by covering the letter that is on the laminated card.

Have different types of seeds available for the children to sort into muffin tins or bowls.

In advance, print out and color 8 different types of bread. Make 2 of each type. Laminate for durability.

The children match, and try to name, the different types.

Suggestions: muffin, pretzel, tortilla, pita, cake, loaf, croissant, bagel, etc.

In advance, roll playdough into bread sticks of different sizes. Bake.

Place then on your math table for the children to sort by size and then put in order from smallest to largest.

Themed Music and Movement Activities to Get Your Preschoolers Movin' and Groovin'!

Sing this traditional song but replace the word CAKE with BREAD!

Pat-a bread, pat-a bread,

Bakers man bake me a loaf bread as fast as you can.

Roll it pat it mark it with a B

And put it in the oven for preschool and me!

VARIATION: Use the first letter of a child's name (as in the traditional song)--giving time for the child to tell everyone what letter their name begins with--and sing for each child!

Themed Activities for Your Sand and Water Table!

Put flour in your table this week! Use both white and wheat flour! Add spoons, cups and bowls.

EXTENSION: Let the children add salt and water to make playdough!!!

Provide a small bottle of hand soap and towels. Place warm water in your table.

Let the children practice washing their hands. Remind them that bakers must wash their hands often.

EXTENSION: Provide egg beaters, cups and spoons for some measuring and bubble making fun!

Themed Science Activities for Your Preschool Scientists in Training!

Add one package of yeast to a cup of warm water. Add in a tablespoon of sugar.

Discuss what happens and ask children to explain why yeast is used in bread!

Follow this up by making your favorite recipe to make home made bread!

Materials needed: 2 slices of white bread, 2 Ziploc baggies

Seal one slice in a baggie.

Brush water on the top of the other slice and seal in a baggie.

Place the bags in a warm place and observe over a week!

Materials needed: Magnifying glasses, cups or bowls with different grains.

Suggestions: corn, oats, rye, wheat, etc.

EXTENSION: Provide a balance scale and spoons for the children to measure and weigh the grains with.

Writing Activity Ideas for Your Bread Theme!

Provide each child with a large piece of white construction paper. Let them write on (or stamp or color) their hats.

When done, roll into a cylinder shape and tape for a baker's hat!

Miscellaneous Activities for Your Theme!

Visit a local bakery or bakery department of your local grocery store! Call ahead to set up a time with the manager!

Invite a baker or a family member of one of your student who bakes to come in and cook with the children or to share what they do. They can show the utensils they use and how they work!
Go to the Main Themes page for more Theme ideas! Go to Preschool Plan It's HOME Page

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Yummy! Bread! There are many things you can do for preschool lesson plans with this theme in all of your interest learning centers! Bake a loaf, do some experiments, turn your Dramatic Play area into a Bakery! This bread preschool theme page includes preschool lesson plans, activities and Interest Learning Center ideas for your Preschool Classroom!

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Add different measuring materials into this center and show them how to measure different ingredients.
Teaching them fractions and how you come up with fractions with cutting the bread.

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Alignments to Content Standards: 6.RP.A.3

Task

A recipe for bread calls for 4 cups of flour, 1 pint of water, 2 tablespoons of yeast, and 1 teaspoon of salt. The diagram below represents 1 batch of bread.

1. How much of each ingredient is needed for 2 batches of bread? Draw a diagram that shows this.

2. How much of each ingredient is needed for 3 batches of bread? Draw a diagram that shows this.

3. How much of each ingredient is needed for 5 batches of bread? (Can you answer this without drawing a diagram?)

4. What is the ratio of flour to yeast in five batches of bread?

IM Commentary

The primary purpose of this task is to represent ratios of two or more quantities with parallel tape diagrams. Note that the solution to this task assumes that students have already studied equivalent ratios and understand that when you have a context with 8 units of one quantity and 2 units of another quantity, you can say the ratio is 4:1 because it is an equivalent ratio. In general, when people talk about two ratios being the same, they really mean they are equivalent.

Parallel tape diagrams might look a bit strange to the eye at first because, for example, the rectangle representing one teaspoon is larger than the rectangle representing one cup. This is intentional, and engaging in MP.1 to make sense of this diagram is part of the work of this task. In a parallel tape diagram, sets of bars that are the same length represent equivalent ratios. Work with this style of diagram is intended as a stepping stone to students working with and understanding double number line diagrams. (Which are themselves a stepping stone to working with and understanding ratio tables.)

Part (d) opens a door to some class discussion around the fact that 20:10, 10:5, or any ratio equivalent to 2:1 is an acceptable answer. Experienced doers-of-math often default to the smallest possible whole numbers when writing a ratio; however, any number greater than $0$, s, can be used to create a ratio 2 s : 1 s, and these are all equivalent.

More generally, this task can be used to begin to transition students from an understanding of ratio equivalence in terms of whole-numbers of batches to the more abstract undestanding that $a : b$ is equivalent to any ratio of the form $sa : sb$, where $s$ is any positive value. There are two aspects to this transition. First, students must recognize that when you make $n$ batches of a recipe, you multiply the amount of each of the ingredients by $n$.

Another step of this transition (after this task) will be to scale recipes by non-whole numbers, and to see that to make $1\frac12$ batches, you multiply the amount of each of the ingredients by $1\frac12$. Then students should see that a similar idea applies to other contexts that are not as naturally conceived of in terms of batches, like constant speed and unit pricing.

Solution

1. Two batches require 8 cups of flour, 2 pints of water, 4 tablespoons of yeast, and 2 teaspoons of salt.

2. Three batches require 12 cups of flour, 3 pints of water, 6 tablespoons of yeast, and 3 teaspoons of salt.

3. We can multiply the quantity for each ingredient by 5 to get the answer: 20 cups of flour, 5 pints of water, 10 tablespoons of yeast, and 5 teaspoons of salt

4. 20:10 or any equivalent ratio.

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Alignments to Content Standards: 6.RP.A.3 A recipe for bread calls for 4 cups of flour, 1 pint of water, 2 tablespoons of yeast, and 1 teaspoon of salt. The diagram below represents 1 batch of bread. How much of each ingredient is needed for 2 batches of bread?

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Teaching Math and Reading through Cooking (Includes Printables) | Preschool cooking, Cooking with kids, Fun cooking

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Oct 5, 2013 - Take cooking with kids to a new level by teaching math and reading through picture recipes. You'll love cooking with kids as much as they do.

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Bakery dramatic play center printables for pretend play in preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten.
Do you struggle to find time to change out the props in thedramatic play center? These printable props will help you change up your dramatic play center into an adorable bakery that's packed with a ton of learning and fun!

Give your basic housekeeping or dramatic play center a makeover by adding a few simple props. Your preschool or pre-k students will love baking and serving pretend cookies, pies, cakes and muffins in their very own bakery!

Bakery is a fun theme to do any time during the year, but can be especially fun around the holidays. During the holidays, baking may be taking place in homes and children may be tasting lots of yummy holiday treats - making this theme even more meaningful.

Bakery Dramatic Play

The printable bakery packet also provides research that explains how dramatic play supports academic learning. The bakery kit is infused with literacy, math, oral language, and writing opportunities that align with current early learning standards.

Contents
The bakery dramatic play kit includes the following editable printables:

Open and Closed Signs (color - large and small)

Bakery Sign (color)

Pennant Banner (color)

Picture Cards (color - one with prices and one without- USD)

Bakery Role Play Nametags (color - customer, cashier, baker, cake decorator)

How to Make Cookies Sequencing Cards (color, b/w)

Bakery Hours of Operation Sign (color)

Order Forms (b/w - 1/2 page & 1/4 page)

Bakery Menu (color, b/w - one with prices, one without, one blank - USD)

More Bakery Signs (color - pay here, line forms here, 2 sale signs - USD)

Bakery Picture Cards

Included are several different versions of the menu, in this picture above the picture cards have been placed in a pocket chart to serve as a menu. The other options included are one color menu with prices, one color menu without prices, and one menu with blanks for the children to write in their own prices. The same three menu options are also available in black and white.

Bakery Order Forms

What can I get for you today? The felt baked goods and plates pictured above are from the Target Dollar Spot and the wooden birthday cake is from the Melissa and Doug line. The 1/4 page order form is also pictured here. Your little learners will love taking orders in the pretend bakery and serving up tasty treats to their friends!

Bakery Role Playing Badges

Just print these role playing badges on cardstock and laminate for durability. Then, punch holes at the top and insert yarn or string to create necklaces the children can wear when playing in the pretend bakery to designate their roles. You could also use badge clips and have children clip the name tags to their shirts if you prefer.

Bakery Signs

There are several different choices for signs in your bakery dramatic play center included in this kit, use the ones that best meet your needs and those of your students. The sign pictured above is for cookies, 3 for one dollar. The other signs included are:

Pay Here

Order Here

Line Forms Here

1 Dozen Cupcakes for $5

Employees Must Wash Hands

These signs will help you create a print-rich environment for your little learners.

Purchase
*Note: Baked goods such as cookies, pies, and cakes can be made using healthy ingredients such as whole wheat flour, oatmeal, and natural sugar substitutes. Dounuts can be baked instead of fried. Include a lesson about healthy cooking and eating before introducing the bakery center to your students if it is a concern.
More Dramatic Play Themes from Pre-K Pages

Bakery Dramatic Play Resources

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Bakery Dramatic Play Center in Preschool

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Bakery dramatic play center printables for pretend play in preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten. Do you struggle to find time to change out the props in thedramatic play center ? These printable props will help you change up your dramatic play center into an adorable bakery that's packed with a ton of learning and fun!

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Bread Clip Straw Pickup - kids learning numbers activity

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Please check if any of the children in your care have gluten allergies before making some of these activities.

Before Reading

Introduce The Little Red Hen puppet to the children. (Craft description and patterns available inside our KidsSoup Resource Library)

Explain that you will read a story about The Litte Red Hen and her friends. In advance place a small bread inside a paper bag. Show children the bag. Let children touch and feel the bag and smell what's inside. Can they guess what's inside the bag? Take out the bread. Ask children if they like to eat bread and if they know how bread is made.

Show children a stalk of wheat, some wheat seeds, and some products made from wheat, or pictures of the items. Ask children to share ways they think the grains of wheat eventually become bread.

Explain that it takes a lot of time and hard work to get from grain to bread. Talk about the process of planting, harvesting, and the final product, the baked good. Read the book The Little Red Hen to the children.

Read the story of The Little Red Hen. (Booklet and puppets available inside our KidsSoup Resource Library)

After Reading

Review the story and place the pictures from the story in order on the board or on a table. Talk about what happened first, then, next, last, etc.

As each picture is added to the sequence, sing the appropriate verse of "The Little Red Hen's Song" below:

Song and Movement
Children pretend to be the little red hen and make the matching movements together.

The Little Red Hen Song
(Melody: Here We Go 'round the Mulberry Bush)

Extension Activities

Science Exploration:
Investigate wheat seeds and wheat stalks. Provide magnifing glass.

Find wheat seeds in dirt using a magnifing glass.
Little Red Hen Story Re-telling
Provide wheat seeds, wheat stalks, small bags with flours, brown play dough and some dirt. Let children use The Little Red Hen puppets to re-tell the story or create their own The Little Red Hen and Her Friends stories.

The Little Red Hen Math Activities
Little Red Hen Planting Wheat Activity. Little Red Hen Bread Shape Sorting Activity Little Red Hen +1 Game Little Red Hen Numbers (Number sense) H for Hen Letter Exploration Mats The Little Red Hen B for Baking Bread Game (available inside our ABC Twiggles Program) Salt Dough Breads (addition) What you need: (Shapes recognition) (Counting and fine motor skills.)
Literacy
Circle Game
Craft

Research some different kinds of breads. Set up a baking station. Let children form breads, buns, croissants, or cinnamon rolls (Let children roll the dough into a long snake shape and roll into a spiral. Provide cookie cutters to cut out cookie shapes. Use dried bakery items in your pretend bakery store for sale.

Bowl
1 cup flour
1/2 cup Salt
2 tbs vegetable oil
What's missing?
To make the dough place a bowl of flour, a bowl of salt, and a bowl with water on a table. Provide measuring spoons, small plastic bowls, and plastic forks. Demonstrate to children how to make a salt dough. In a small bowl let them use the measuring spoon to add 2 scoops of flour and 1 scoop of salt into a bowl. Let them stir the salt and the flour with the fork. Then, add 2 spoons full of water to the mixture. Let children use their hands to mix the dough. (Option add a small amount of oil to the dough. This will make the dough smoother.) Let children form the dough into different breads. Place them on a cookie sheet to dry. To speed up the drying time place the salt dough breads in the ofen on low heat. Usualy it takes about 3 hours at a low heat so they don't burn. Let children paint the breads and sell them in their pretend bakery.
What's inside the box?
Let children sell the bread in their pretend bakery shop.

What's inside the Box? (Baker tools vocabulary, oral language, sensory)

In advance place baker tools inside a box (rolling pin, measuring cup and spoons, spatula, wooden spoon, cookie cutters, bowl,etc.)
Little Red Hen Bread Snack The Little Red Hen Books (Instructions and recipe available inside our KidsSoup Resource Library)
Invite one child after the other to come to the box and take out one item. Let each of the children hold the item. Name the item and discuss what each tool is used for. Place the item in the middle of the circle.

Choose four to five items. Ask children to cover their eyes and remove one item. What tool is missing?

Ask children to cover their eyes. Place one item inside the box. Invite one child to feel the item inside the box without looking. What tool is inside the box?

Continue until all children had a turn.

Snack

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The Little Red Hen Preschool Activities and Crafts

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The Little Red Hen is a classic story that all children love. From seed to bread, friendship, and helping each other are the main focus of this book. Our KidsSoup Resource Library contains a wide range of different activities related to the theme of The Little Red Hen.

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Making their own cook book with ingredients

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Making their own cook book with ingredients

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Cooking with kids offers a wonderful array of learning opportunities for young children. It provides practice in language arts (vocabulary and "reading" a recipe), science (chemistry and exploring the senses), and developing social skills (cooperation and turn-taking). The kitchen also provides a range of math practice such as counting, measuring, and understanding order.

In my son's pre-k class, the teachers and children cooked together almost weekly; the recipes coincided with their Letter Of The Week. So for B week they made banana bread and for O week they made omelets. The recipes were simple enough for the teachers and children (ages 4 to 5-years-old) to manage, each having a minimum number of ingredients. My son LOVED the rice pudding so much that I asked his teacher for the recipe. When I saw how simple it was, I suggested we collect ALL of her recipes and create a cookbook to share with other parents, whom I imagined were equally excited to cook with their kids at home. After all, these were recipes already vetted by our experienced and talented teacher.

As a teacher in the classroom, we sought out parent/caregiver volunteers to assist with cooking projects. Having the child's special grown-up allowed those participants to engage in the school life of their child, providing them with an opportunity to better know the other children and teachers and also observe their own child in the context of the classroom. It also allowed us to maintain good adult/child ratios while working with small groups of children (typically 4 - 5), in the kitchen. The children who cooked or prepared snack (sometimes it was simply designing bagel faces with cut fruit, vegetables and sprouts) usually delighted in their food and seemed proud to share their creations with their classmates. The learning continued through the service portion of the meal, since the child chefs, with the help of the grown-ups, needed to figure out how to divide what they made into equal portions for their friends. Something like bagel faces required counting and one-to-one correspondence; baking a quiche required cutting it into enough equal-sized pieces to serve everyone.

For recipes that were made frequently, we made recipe booklets that were much more readable for children. Play dough was something we made with children on a weekly basis and for that we created cards, bound by binder rings that had visual instructions and described quantities with pictures.

Cooking presents children with plenty of opportunities to learn and is also a great way to teach principles of good nutrition and encourage an adventurous palate: in my experience kids are much more likely to try foods they've grown or prepared themselves.

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Cooking with kids offers a wonderful array of learning opportunities for young children. It provides practice in language arts (vocabulary and "reading" a recipe), science (chemistry and exploring the senses), and developing social skills (cooperation and turn-taking). The kitchen also provides a range of math practice such as counting, measuring, and understanding order.

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Let’s get this bread RA bulletin board. Goal setting 101. | College bulletin boards, Goal setting bulletin board, Ra bulletin boards

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Mar 3, 2019 - Let’s get this bread RA bulletin board. Goal setting 101.

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Beginning in 2011, Success Academy Charter Schools in New York City has challenged their staff to take part in a yearly contest for the most creative and inspired bulletin boards. Below is a collection of some of the most interesting and inventive boards from the many that were submitted.

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Beginning in 2011, Success Academy Charter Schools in New York City has challenged their staff to take part in a yearly contest for the most creative and inspired bulletin boards. Below is a collection of some of the most interesting and inventive boards from the many that were submitted.

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Writing Center Posters and Writing Paper Templates | Writing lessons, Classroom writing center, Writing center

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You can add bread writing and pictures for them to learn to draw.

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It's important for preschoolers to have practice forming letters before they learn to write with a pencil and paper. One way to do this is with a sensory writing tray. These trays are very easy to put together and are a great addition to a writing center.

Sensory Writing Tray

A sensory writing tray is a shallow container filled with any material that can be moved around with a finger or writing utensil to form letters or numbers. The purpose of this tray is to allow children to practice writing without the stress of holding a pencil. This is a carefree and fun way to help your preschoolers learn how to write.

Here's what you need for a sensory writing tray:

Tray (I found mine at the Target Dollar Spot)

Material for the tray: sugar, salt, cornmeal, or sand

Writing utensils (optional)

Letter cards - I like to use these letter formation rhymes

Gel food coloring of your choice

I used colored sugar in my writing trays pictured here, but you could also use colored salt or sand. To color the sugar, pour about 2 cups of sugar into a bag. Add a few drops of gel food coloring. Close the bag and shake until the color is mixed. If it's not mixing well, spread it on the tray and mix with your hands. If you would like to add a scent, add a few drops of peppermint or vanilla extract and mix again.

When the sugar is colored and dry, spread it around in a tray. You don't need a lot in the tray, just a thin layer that covers the tray bottom. If you add too much sugar, it may become difficult to make and see the letters in the tray.

Add the alphabet formation cards to your center so children can see how to form letters correctly. I use both the uppercase and lowercase alphabet formation rhymes so the children can see the example of the letter when writing. I keep the cards in a binder and invite children to flip the pages to see different letters.

Using the Tray in Your Writing Center

After the writing center is set up, teach students to write letters on the tray using a finger, a dull pencil (or the eraser end), or even a watercolor paintbrush! Make sure to teach the expectations at the center first to avoid any potential problems that may arise during the exploration.

It's okay if your preschoolers can't form the letters perfectly, they're just practicing. Of course, you can encourage them to look more closely at the letters when they form the letter incorrectly. Writing trays are a wonderful and stress-free way to practice making letters - and they're easy to erase too! After writing one or several letters, show children how to "erase" by rubbing a hand over the tray or gently shaking the tray to redistribute the sugar.

My children love sensory writing trays and this would be the perfect addition to your preschool writing center. I hope you'll try it out!

BIO: Angela is the writer and creator at Teaching Mama, where she shares hands-on learning activities for babies, toddlers, and preschoolers. She is a former teacher, turned stay-at-home-mom to 3 wonderful boys. She is also the creator of the alphabet and shape formation rhymes, which you can find here. You can connect with her on Facebook, Pinterest, or Instagram.

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Sensory Writing Tray for the Writing Center - Pre-K Pages

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Patty cake patty cake
Bakers man bake me some bread as fast as you can.
Roll it pat it mark it with a (first initial of child's name)
And put it in the oven for --and me!

This Is The Way We Make The Bread

This is the way we mix the dough
Mix the dough
Mix the dough
This is the way we mix the dough
To make bread for you!

This is the way we knead the dough
Knead the dough
Knead the dough
This is the way we knead the dough
To make bread for you!

This is the way we shape the dough
Shape the dough
Shape the dough
This is the way we shape the dough
To make bread for you!

This is the way we bake the dough
Bake the dough
Bake the dough
This is the way we bake the dough
To make bread for you!

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Patty cake patty cake Bakers man bake me some bread as fast as you can. Roll it pat it mark it with a (first initial of child's name) And put it in the oven for --and me!

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The Bakery Shop Song | Bakery shop, Baking theme, Preschool cooking

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Nov 30, 2012 - At group time each day we have been doing a song that I learned from my mentor teacher during my Montessori internship year. It has always been one of my favorites to do with little ones, and the little ones...

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Place color photos of different types of bread in art center and allow children to freely choose own medium from what is available in to create their own reproductions. When you encourage this type of free choice always, children learn such great problem solving skills and their creativity grows as the year progresses. You will have water colored pictures of bread, collage art bread, play dough/clay bread, drawings of bread, 3-d art bread, etc. if all colors and shapes.

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Save bread ties...sponge paint with bread bags...