11 snacks that help kids learn
Penny Flanagan
If you’ve got a reluctant scholar on your hands, a lateral approach to learning may work wonders. These snacks and kitchen science activities will get your child learning useful stuff without them even realising they’re learning anything. From fractions to letters, you and your child can eat your way through some basic cognition and all the “lessons” will stick.
1. Fruit as fractions.
If you are having trouble explaining the concept of fractions to your child, try using a piece of fruit. Cut it into each section and show how each one becomes a fraction of the whole. Then watch them eat the apple, just because it's there and it's cut up. Win/win.
