Hooray for National Mustard Day!
August 5 is National Mustard Day, and what a great day for cooking with the kids. Check your favorite cookbooks or internet recipe sites and find a few mustard-related recipes, like potato salad, baked beans, or honey-mustard sauce. Head off to the kitchen and let the kids loose. While they’re having fun, they will be learning about sequencing, following directions, reading comprehension, measurement, time management and more.
And don’t forget that mustard is also a color. Can you come up with a yellow art project to round out your day? Try this with young children: get a collection of yellow paint sample sheets from your local hardware store. Cut the yellows apart and then challenge your young child to arrange them in order of shade. You can make this as easy or as tough as you like-just change the number of shades you use and how closely they resemble each other.
Finally, take some time to learn about mustard itself. Where does it come from? What is its history? What is it used for? Who makes it? Do all of the plants with the name ‘mustard’ actually have anything to do with the condiment? Why do they have the names they do?
Have fun!
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