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Tour a commercial kitchen (or ask families to help children observe behind the counter of a fast-food restaurant). What jobs do people have? What equipment is used? What features do children see?
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Make an experience chart with children’s knowledge about restaurants. It’s the springboard for carrying out this imaginative project.
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Would children like to set up their own pretend eatery? If so, they generate ideas: décor, menu, chef, wait staff, cash register. Possibilities for learning math, literacy, and nutrition abound.
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With your friends, plan a pretend fast-food restaurant. List what you need.
5.
Figure out how to create everything in your restaurant with construction paper and recycled items such as boxes.
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Design a restaurant logo using Crayola® Washable Markers. Use the logo on signs, napkins, place mats, and the menu. Write a menu, including prices. Create all the food. Use your imagination, such as tissue paper for lettuce and ribbon with marker lines f
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Try different collage materials. Cut paper with Crayola® Scissors, and stick pieces together with Crayola® School Glue. Include details, such as place mats, ketchup packets, and pickles.
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When everything is ready, have a grand opening for your restaurant. Who will be chef? Wait staff? Customers? Cashier? Custodian? Truck unloader?
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