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Tasting Survey

Magic Carpet

Take-A-Taste Activities

Grade Level: Pre-k / K
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Synopsis:
This ongoing Tasting Chart is used in all the activities in which children try a new food. So keep it handy!

Material and Advance Prep:

• Large posterboard
• Felt marker

What to Do:

1. Draw four columns on the poster board. Title it "Tasting Chart." Make the first column wide enough to write the recipe or food name. Make the others wide enough to write a number.
2. Write "Recipe" at the top of the first column. Draw a smiling face for the second column and a frowning face for the third column. For the fourth column, draw a face with eyes and a "?" where the mouth should be.
3. Write the name of the food students tasted on the chart.
   • Ask students raise their hands if they liked the food tasted. Have students help you count how many "likes" there are. Record the number in the smiling face column.
   • Then ask students to raise their hands if they "did not like" the food. Record the number in the frowning face column.
   • Finally, ask how many did not taste the food. Record the number in the "?" column.
4. Discuss the chart, talking about how many more people "like" or "don't like" the food. Congratulate the children for taking a taste. Remind them that sometimes they will not like a new taste, and that's okay. What is important is for children to be "food tasters" and to always give nutritious foods a try.
5. Use this chart to take a tasting survey each time you do a food tasting activity. Point out that some people like a certain taste and that other people do not. Congratulate children on the number of "new" foods they have tried during the year.

Reviews

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Title: Tasting Foods
Submitted by: Kate from Pennsylvania

As a childcare provider, I know how important it is to get children to try new food and this is an excellent way to encourage children to do just that. I have been using Chef Combo's nutritional ideas for years.

Title: taste test
Submitted by: ms.kelly

I work at Head Start and the children there loved the taste test. We did a chart but we had each person's name (children and adults) on the left and they got to put a sticker under the like, don't like, or no thank you columns at the top of the page. I'd recommend Chef Combo to any group that works with pre-k.