Red
Teaching table manners while reinforcing color red
Month 3 · Activity 8 · Colors
Instructions
- Draw with a red washable marker the letter R on the back of child’s right hand
- Talking about good manners at the table includes passing food to the right (counterclockwise)
- Using a red apple practice passing from child’s right hand to the next person’s left hand
- During mealtimes practice passing food. A child takes food with left hand moving to the right hand to pass
Simplify
Have a child pick up an apple with the right hand and place it on the table. Ask the child to pick up the apple from the table using his right hand. Do this three times. Now, encourage the child to ask you to pick up the apple from the table using your right hand. Let him ask you three times.
Extend
Other important table manners are:
- clean hands and face when coming to eat at the table
- putting a napkin on your lap
- start eating when everyone is ready to begin
- keep elbows and other body parts off the table
- chew with mouth closed
- ask to be excused when finished
QUESTIONS FOR CHILD
Why do we need to eat food?
After listening to this song "A Really, Really, Really Super Good Day", tell me what the song says to you.
Materials
- red washable marker (click here to purchase)
- red apple
Motor Skills
Social Skills
