Play with Your Food

Have fun with food by having your students create food puppets and write a play that can teach younger students. Divide the classroom into pairs or small groups. Sign each of them a simple food like a potato, banana, kiwi, mango, cinnamon, or cocoa bean. Find common foods that may come from far away. Each group will need to make a puppet of their food and answer the following questions;

• Where is this food from?
• How many miles is that from where you live?
• How many gallons of gas would it take to get here by car if your car gets thirty miles per gllon?
• How many pounds of the global-warming gas, carbon dioxide, would be released by this trip if each gallon of gas releases about twenty-five pounds of carbon dioxide?
• What language do they speak where this food came from?
• How is this food grown and farmed?

Once the students have learned all about their food, they should write a script as though their food is talking and introducing itself to an audience. Have fun with it and let the kids write music for the play and design the set. Encourage them to use their imagination.