Tag: Chinese

Pick Up Activity

You can look forward to some excitement with your special Compact Cutlery Set. Enjoy your meal even more with your very own fork, spoon, and pair of chopsticks. Take your pack with you anywhere you go. Not only does it hold the tools you need to eat your food, but it’s reusable (and good for the planet!).

Need some practice with your new chopsticks? No worries! We’ll have you mastering them in no time. First, find some (or all) of these items from around the house. Anything small or easy to grasp will do.

  • Erasers
  • Cereal
  • Candy
  • Buttons
  • Jewelry
  • Fish crackers
  • Tiny toys or doll pieces

Next, put all of the items into a pile between you. Then get ready to pick them up. Fastest wins!

Sesame Meatballs

Sesame Meatballs

Looking for a hearty finger food for a party or a small plate supper? Serve up a platter of these mini meatballs. Bake them first in the oven, then simmer in a honey garlic soy sauce on the stove or in a crockpot. We used ground beef and pork, but you can substitute ground lamb or turkey to suit your family's taste.

Kids Using Chopsticks

Kids Chopsticks Pro Feature

 

How to use chopsticks like a pro!
When you’re ready to eat up your noodle soup, try using your new giraffe chopsticks.

  1. Pop off the giraffe from the top. Hold one stick in the crook of your thumb with it resting on the third finger.
  2. Hold the other stick between your thumb and the first two fingers.
  3. Practice bringing the two sticks together as you pick up noodles.
  4. Eat the noodles in your soup with the chopsticks and slurp up the broth with a spoon
  • Helping Hand – if you have a hard time holding the chopsticks, slip the giraffe on the top so the sticks stay together. Try it both ways. Which is easiest for you?

Capable of reaching deep into boiling pots of water or oil, early chopsticks were used mainly for cooking. It wasn’t until A.D. 400 that people began eating with the utensils. This happened when a population boom across China sapped resources and forced cooks to develop cost-saving habits. They began chopping food into smaller pieces that required less cooking fuel—and happened to be perfect for the tweezers-like grip of chopsticks. – Hungry History

Kids Use Chopsticks Infographic

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Lunch Dice

Tip: Scan your fridge and kitchen cupboards and write down lunch ideas with the items that you have on hand.

Lunch Dice
Roll and get ideas for what to pack for lunch!

Make the dice:

  1. Print out this page 3 times (using “Download Here” link above). Cut along the dotted lines.
  2. Write a lunch idea in each circle (see ideas at right).
  3. Fold along the solid lines. Tape the dice together.
  4. Roll all three dice at once. Read the ideas on what to pack in your lunch!

Write lunch ideas: