Chocolate Chip Muffins

FOLLOW UP ACTIVITIES:

VOCABULARY

• chocolate
• chip
• muffin

MATH

• Chocolate Chip Grouping
• Make different groups with chips or cookies:
• Have your child compare each group
• Label "more" or "less"

• Muffin Sorting 1 through 12
• Supply muffin liners
• Label them 1 through 12
• Have children count appropriate number of objects going into the cup

SCIENCE

• Show the concept of melting
• Hold a chip in your hand
• What happens? Why?
• Discuss what will happen when the chocolate chips are placed in the oven?
• Try holding other objects: ice, marble, etc.
• Predict and compare

LANGUAGE ARTS

• Muffin Tin Phonics
• Label muffin liners with given letters
• Supply small toys or pictures and have your child sort by initial consonant sounds

• Letter Muffin Toss
• Child tosses button into tin marked with various letters
• Child should identify the letter the button landed on
• If able, they can name an object that begins with that letter

• While the chocolate chip muffins are baking in the oven, you can sing this song with your child: "Oh, do you know the muffin man"
  "The muffin man"
  "The muffin man"
  "Oh, do you know the muffin man"
  "Who lives in Drury Lane?"

ART

• Muffin Cup Paper Flowers
• Supply pipe cleaners and colorful muffin liners
• Thread the pipe cleaner through the center of the multiple colorful muffin liners
• Create paper flowers

• Q-Tip Painting
• Supply a round piece of cardboard paper
• Have your child add "chocolate" chips by dipping the Q-Tip into brown paint

DRAMATIC PLAY

• Provide cupcake tins, liners, large pom poms, large styrofoam balls
• Let children pretend to be bakers