Mealtime Activities For Five-Year-Olds

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Are you looking for fun home-learning activities to do with your five-year-old? Our team of early childhood curriculum experts thoughtfully curated these home-education activities from our proprietary Life Essentials® curriculum to help your family Learn On® when away from the Academy. Whether it’s during mealtime, playtime, clean up time, bath time, or bedtime – our at-home curriculum is built so you can easily integrate school-from-home learning opportunities in seamless, easy, and fun ways.

Taste Test


Level of instruction: Moderate

When: Playtime, Outdoor, Mealtime

Time recommendation: 10-20 minutes

Participants: One-on-one, Siblings

Learning Domain: Cognitive Development

Learning Standards:
Sensory exploration, Observation skills

Materials: Bandana, various snack foods, spoon

Instructions:

Create taste stations for your child to explore his or her sense of taste! Prepare a blindfold that your child can wear as he or she tastes the items. Be sure to use foods that your child has tasted previously, such as items that are used for snacks. Encourage your child to describe what he or she tastes. Consider foods that may be bitter like dark chocolate, sour like lemon candy, salty like a pretzel, or sweet like ice-cream.

Did you enjoy the food? Was it hard to try food while blindfolded? Was the food hot or cold?

Looking for more activities for you and your five-year-old?

  • Playtime : Playtime is a great way to teach your baby without it even feeling like learning.
  • Outside Time: The great outdoors can be the best classroom of all.

Or return to the Life Essentials® At Home page to find activities to explore with other age groups.