Activity Plan 3-4: Muffin Month

Children will discover that making muffins is more than just mixing up a tasty treat!

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Ready-to-Use Teaching Ideas: Cooking/Literacy

Materials:

• ingredients to make muffins
• drawing paper
• baking utensils
• markers and crayons
• camera and film (optional)

Objective: Children will participate in muffin - making activities that help develop science, math, and cooperative learning skills.

In Advance: Send a note home telling parents that children will be baking different kinds of muffins. Ask families to send in favorite muffin recipes.

ACTIVITY

The Muffin Man. Begin by teaching children this classic rhyme:

Do you know the muffin man?

The muffin man, the muffin man.

Do you know the muffin man?

He lives on Drury Lane.

Yes, I know the muffin man,

The muffin man, the muffin man.

Yes, I know the muffin man.

He lives on Drury Lane.

Then ask, while clapping out the beat:

What is your favorite muffin?

Is it: Blueberry, Banana, Huckleberry, Strawberry, Apple, Bran, Carrot, Lemon, Corn? (you can add other favorites)

Multi-Muffin Snack. Tell children that each week they will bake a different type of muffin to have for snack. Collect the recipes and assist children in choosing the muffins they would like to make. Gather the ingredients and baking utensils. Prepare an illustrated recipe chart for each muffin recipe. Engage children in reading the recipe chart as you go along. You may want to photograph children during the baking process and while they are eating their muffins to document the activity. You can double the batch and send an extra muffin home so children can share their muffins with their families.

Paper Muffins. Cut out muffin shapes from drawing paper. Provide the children with markers or crayons and ask them to make special paper muffins. Some children may want to describe the type of muffin they made. Record their comments below their paper muffin.

Curriculum Connection

Literacy: Muffin Recipe Book. Make a muffin recipe book for each family. Make photocopies of all the muffin recipes, the children's paper muffins, and photographs documenting the activity. You may also want to ask children what muffins they liked best and other questions related to the activity, including their responses in the book.

Risa Young is the former director of two early childhood programs in the New York City area, the Children's Aid Society's Greenwich Village Center and the Innovative Learning Center at the Long Island College Hospital. She has been a consultant to Early Childhood Today for more than eight years.

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