Stroke of Brilliance
One of many projects to do for the Boo is a “menu” sort of idea both for meal planning and for learning the days of the week. I can’t remember how much of this I’ve written about before so forgive me if I’m totally repeating myself! Google isn’t helping here either.
I was originally inspired to do this by Kerflop and some emails that I saw all around the same time. The basic idea is that you have the days of the week as well some menu ideas done up as magnets, then the kids can help you plan your weekly meals and thusly your grocery list. I want to do photos instead of the written word, which presents the challenging part of this plan — it’ll take me friggin’ forever to remember to photograph our primary meals before they’re eaten, get those printed, and then put them onto magnet paper.
Then H had a stroke of brilliance the other day — since so much of our food comes from boxes (I know, I know) just cut out the picture on the box. Hurrah! Our picture of mac-n-cheese is ready and waiting for magnets. I need to print up Kerflop’s days of the week (or make my own) and we’re on our way to meal planning! Awesome.
The best part about photos? The Boo can help with the planning by picking what he wants to eat. His current pronunciation is such that mac-n-cheese sounds much like “match” so it’s hard to tell what he’s asking for! Photos should help, I hope! I also like some other ideas I’ve seen, where foods are color coded so you can make sure you’ve got different food groups at the same meal — brown for grains, green for veggies, etc.
My next idea for learning days of the week? A felt calendar with shapes that identifty certain activities that can, of course, be moved around. Like Daddy going to work on Monday, playgroup on Thursday, a special outing on whatever day, etc. Looking forward to it! If I ever get my butt in gear.