The first ones we ate were a special treat while we were watching the last Spanish movie for the film unit. They were Dominican Republic shaped cookies with a heart over Santiago! The kids loved them.
She also made me US shaped cookies. We are studying US History so I knew I could incorporate them somehow. The week after I received the package, we were going to start a book called Bound for Oregon. It is a novel about the Oregon trail and a family's adventures. I had the boys map out the Oregon trail on the cookie using the special pens. They had to label 6 places along the trail, and they had to do some research on those places. I wish they would have wrote more about the places, but overall it was a fun way to use food and the cookies to visualize the Oregon trail.
Joseph's quote from the day:
"There's nothing cooler than writing on a cookie!"
Other ways to use edible pens/cookies in the classroom:
- Use the food pens on a slice of bread to draw or illustrate a concept from math or science or history
- Creating a timeline on food of some sort.
- Create picture frame cookies like these ones. Get mini easles from Michaels craft store and study different artists. For a final they could use the food pen and the cookie to create a piece of artwork in the style of their artist.
- Make a cake to represent a character or theme or novel that was read during English class. We could use the pens to write on the cake (character traits, events, quotes/text evidence).
How are you using food in the classroom?
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