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Recipe Activities

By: Carmen Willings
teachingvisuallyimpaired.com

Learning skills in the area of food preparation will help the students to become the most contributing members of their homes. It is also a great way to learn responsibility!  Cooking is also one of the best ways to demonstrate physical changes. Incorporate instruction in tearing lettuce for salad, making slice and bake cookies, steps of making a cake from a cake mix. You can easily incorporate concepts such as thick/thin, hard/soft, rough/smooth, hot/cold, front/back, and shape and color concepts into the cooking activity. You can never have enough opportunities to address listening and following directions. Cooking provides a natural time to practice following written directions. You can also incorporate pictures of each step (or objects to represent each step) and have the student sequence them in the correct order.
Part 1
Students review recipe at the beginning of the week to determine ingredients needed, identify what items will need to be purchased. Discuss how items can exist as either a pure substance or as a mixture. Discuss that we will need to follow directions to make the food and will need to identify the ingredients we need. Students will work as a group to create a grocery list, look through sales flyers to determine if any items are on sale and estimate how much the items will cost.
Part 2
Make purchase at the store and bring items into class along with receipt and change. Have students identify the amount of each item. Have each student use a combination of coins and bills to represent how much their item cost. How many different ways can they make that amount? Then as a group add all the money together. Does it match the receipt?
Part 3
Determine the tools needed for following the recipe. Identify equipment needed. Discuss if items are solid, liquid or gas. Discuss how items need to be heated and cooled.
Part 4
Students use pictures /illustrations to aid comprehension of recipe; Identify and discuss sequences of events in recipe; and follow simple and multiple step directions. Use appropriate tools to measure and complete recipe. Demonstrate how adding different amounts of a substance to another substance will result in different substances.
Part 5
Have students copy the recipe for their recipe file. Have the items (or containers the items were in) out to recreate order of events. Provide appropriate materials for students to glue pictures in correct sequence for recipe, write or Braille information.

Material Resources...

Making Picture Recipes by APH
Making Picture Recipes, available from APH, provides cooking instruction for students with low vision, nonreaders, and beginning readers.  It includes bold-line, simplified illustrations of common foods and ingredients, cooking equipment, and cooking processes on 3 1/2 x 4 inch cards.
This Palm Peeler provides a way for the user to cut foods safely! It is available from Amazon as well as Independent Living Aids!
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