We have started to talk with the children more about recipes for the mud kitchen. We gave them each a “Mud Kitchen Recipe Book” where they can write down the ingredients and instructions for a mud kitchen recipe.
This is a great literacy activity. Children write their names on the cover and watch the teacher write down the words they are speaking in the “instructions” part.
One thing the teacher noticed is that the children are not all grasping what a recipe is. We have done baking activities in our classroom, but we are planning to do more so that they can start to see the format of a recipe: ingredients and instructions.
We also plan to use the mud kitchen daily so that children have a chance to explore more with mud kitchen recipes together.
Here are just a few examples of the “Mud Kitchen Recipe Books.”
