Show me the recipe!

Ask your child to describe or invent their favourite dish.

Your child’s task is to draw the recipe using pictures and symbols.

Ask them to start with the ingredients.

If they are creating an ice cream sundae, they may draw three brown circles to represent three scoops of chocolate ice cream.

They may draw different fruits or lollies they would like to put on it, representing the number of items in some way (e.g. they may draw four strawberries or draw one strawberry with a *4 sign).

Ask them to describe how the symbols and pictures represented their recipe.