Category:The Science and Art of Cooking

Learn how and why mixtures of certain ingredients make tasty treats, some chemical reactions that occur during cooking, make ooey-gooey edible concoctions for hands-on exploration.

These tools can be used with any topic, and may be done indoors or outdoors, each giving different results and utilizing different muscles to broaden the range of motor skills.


 * Cartooning
 * Origami
 * Dioramas
 * Papier-Mache
 * Masks
 * Drawing (regular pencil, charcoal, pastel, color)
 * Painting
 * Inking (Pens, Stamps, etc.)
 * Collage
 * Sculpture
 * Clay (modeling, sculpting, etc.)
 * Ceramics (painting, decorating, reusing)
 * Jewelry-Making, including making beads
 * Combining drawing, painting, collage, and other mediums
 * Making or coloring in coloring books
 * Photography
 * Photo editing
 * Exploratory Art (experimenting with paint, clay, collage, different sizes of paint brushes, crayons, markers, different types of glue and paper, different sculpting methods [pinching, coil, potter's wheel, and slab construction], different paint textures)
 * Metalwork (aluminum and copper rubbings, welding, wire-working, using metal snips for cutting, etc.)
 * Shadow puppets
 * Pressed flower book mark
 * Make kaleidescope
 * Singing fun songs and playing musical games
 * Play instruments, such as fiddles, flutes, rhythm instruments (drum, cymbal, tambourine, etc.), and bell choirs
 * Explore with chemistry, physics, astronomy (such as the Farmer's Almanac), geology, and biology
 * Stained Glass
 * Dot-to-dot
 * Crossword puzzle
 * Word Search
 * Vocabulary
 * Needlepoint and Embroidery
 * Recipes (can be from different countries and/or cultures)
 * Marble or bead "pixel" pictures
 * Make or paint sun catchers (CAUTION: do not leave sun catchers in a window where they could cause a fire [as a magnifying glass can do])
 * Felt Board
 * Magnets
 * Finger Plays
 * Action poems
 * Nature Walks
 * Cereal Box Covers (find interesting ones, or make your own)
 * Pictures (name/label parts of birds, boats, flowers, buildings, etc.)
 * Clothing (look at, wear, and/or design clothing to fit the subject)
 * Books (make and/or read books relating to the subject)