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Ring Around the Rainbow Parfait

Rainbow/Colors

I-Can-Help Recipes

Grade Level: Pre-k / K
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Synopis:
Students assemble their own parfait of fruit, yogurt and cereal.

Activity Objectives:
Students will be able to:

• Use left-to-right sequencing to assemble a Ring Around the Rainbow Parfait snack using rebus recipe instructions
• Taste a Ring Around the Rainbow Parfait snack
• State the colors in the rainbow

Material and Advance Prep:

• Print and prepare Ring Around the Rainbow Parfait PDF rebus recipe cards
• Ingredients for Ring Around the Rainbow Parfait
• Cut up the two fruits selected for the recipe; place in large bowls
• 6 trays; arrange each recipe card and its supplies on a tray
• Set up trays from left to right
• Plastic spoons - 1 per student
• 6 large bowls and 6 serving spoons
• Clear 6 - ounce plastic cups - 1 per student
• Napkins - 1 per student
• Tasting Chart
• Tasting Passports
• Stickers or rubber stamp for Tasting Passports
• Optional: Print and copy Food Matters Family Newsletter PDF

What to Do:

1. Ask children to raise their hands if they have ever seen a rainbow. What does a rainbow look like? What are the colors in the rainbow? (Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo blue-black, violet).
2. Explain that today we are going to make a snack that has some of the colors in a rainbow. The snack is a Ring Around the Rainbow Parfait. Introduce each ingredient and have students identify the color.
3. Take children in groups of 4 - 5 to the area you have set up for preparing the parfait. After they wash their hands, demonstrate how to make the parfait. Stress the left-to-right sequence. Let students make their own parfait.
4. Repeat with groups of 4 - 5 students until everyone has made a parfait.
5. Add Ring Around the Rainbow Parfait to the Tasting Chart. After everyone has tasted his or her snack, take a tasting survey. Have children help count the results and record them on the chart.
6. Congratulate the children for taking a taste. Remind them that sometimes they will not like a new taste and that's okay. What's important is to be "food tasters" and to always give new foods a try.
7. Stamp the Tasting Passport for everyone who takes a taste, even if they don't eat the whole parfait.
8. Optional: Send home a copy of the Food Matters Family Newsletter (PDF).

Ring Around the Rainbow Parfait
Yield: 24 child-size servings

Ingredients

• 48 ounces fruit-flavored yogurt
• 1 box crunchy cereal, such as lowfat granola
• 3 pounds fruit (1 1/2 pounds each of 2 different colors)

Directions

1. Place 2 spoons of yogurt in a cup.
2. Add a spoon of cereal.
3. Add 2 spoons of fruit #1.
4. Add 2 spoons of fruit #2.
5. Add 2 spoons yogurt.
6. Top with cereal.

Note: For a more colorful parfait, choose two different yogurt flavors that complement each other. For example, blueberry and strawberry.

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Title: great activity
Submitted by: Anonymous

the kids loved it.