Materials
variety of snack items (apple slices, orange wedges, dried fruit, raisins, pretzel
sticks, cereal, goldfish crackers) paper napkins sentence stripsInstructions
1. Place each type of snack in a separate bowl and give each child a sentence
strip.
2. Invite the children to make patterns on their sentence strips with the food
(for example, pretzel, raisin, raisin; pretzel, raisin, raisin).
3. As the children are making the patterns, go around the classroom and ask
them to talk about the patterns.
4. When each child finishes his pattern, invite him to eat it.