Yellow Meal Date
Introducing the use of a calendar while reviewing the color yellow
Month 1 · Activity 26 · Surprise
Instructions
- Think of foods with a child that you could serve for a yellow meal. For example, macaroni and cheese, banana, lemon Jell-O, yogurt, or pudding, sautéed yellow peppers, cheddar cheese, milk with yellow food coloring, corn, yellow squash, grapefruit, water with a yellow lemon, pineapple, etc.
- Click here for a calendar template or find a calendar for the child to use
- Look at the calendar together and review any special dates - birthdays or events - and write or draw pictures on those dates for this month
- Look and say the days of the week on the calendar, the name of the month, and count the number of days in the month
- Select a Yellow Meal date on the calendar for the family
- Color the date on the calendar with a yellow crayon
- Make a list and gather and shop for the yellow foods you will need
- Get the yellow placemat (Month 1 Activity 18) to use for the yellow meal
- Ask the child/family to wear something yellow for the meal
- Enjoy the yellow meal as a family
Simplify
Instead of making the meal, let the child cut out pictures of yellow food. A child can wear a yellow outfit on the selected date and glue the pictures of yellow food onto a paper plate.
Extend
While deciding and shopping for the yellow meal food, name the food and if it is a fruit, vegetable, grain, meat, etc.
QUESTIONS FOR CHILD
What is the purpose of a calendar?
What is an activity that you look forward to doing as a family?
Materials
- 12-month calendar or print out a calendar here
- yellow crayon
- yellow foods
- yellow placemat (Month 1 Activity 18)
- yellow clothing
Language Skills
Math & Science Skills
Problem Solving Skills
