• 1.

  Read several recipes for cookies, baked or unbaked. Compare ingredients. Make different versions of the same cookie. Find out how ingredients affect cookie taste, texture, and shape.

• 2.

  Imagine what your favorite cookie recipe might contain. On a large index card (dictated on story paper for younger children and special needs students), print the name of your cookie recipe with Crayola® Colored Pencils. List ingredients and their amounts to create exactly the kind of cookie you want.

• 3.

  Draw a picture of each ingredient next to the list with Crayola Crayons, Multicultural Crayons, and Colored Pencils.

• 4.

  Draw a picture of the finished cookie on the other side of your recipe.

• 5.

  To practice measurement, make the cookies and taste test the recipes. Make a chart of favorites and reasons.

Benefits

• Children research ingredients typically found in cookies.
• Children write recipes for creative cookies, using standard measurements and imaginative ingredients.
• Children illustrate the ingredients for their recipes and the baked product.
• Children make cookies with their recipes and taste test the results.

Adaptations

• Write recipes for foods that come from islands, mountains, or deserts. Find out what foods grow in those places.
• Write recipes for birthday cakes, salads, or any other foods.
• Research cookie recipes from various cultures. What are the similarities? Differences?