Today in Sunbeams I taught the lesson called "I'm grateful that I can smell and taste." As you can imagine, with 8 little bodies running around, it got a little out of control. I prepared both smell samples and tasting samples. After we listed smells we like and dislike - chicken being one we dislike - I started the smelling samples, Yelling Sunbeam thereafter declared that everything smelled like chicken.The tasting samples were pretty funny, I had lime juice, cornstarch, salt and sugar. I brought little pieces of bread to dip or spread the sample on, then they would eat it. Grumpy Sunbeam is celiac so we just had him dip his finger in and lick it off.
We started with the lime juice, I didn't get a lot of funny reactions but when Sunbeam Innocent tried it she was able to keep smiling but her face turned a bright red. Yelling Sunbeam, after barely touching the lime juice bread to his tongue refused to eat it and gave it back to me. As we went on, they didn't really react notably, Grumpy Sunbeam, sensing that he was special because he got to put his finger in them, started trying much more than I recommended, including quite a bit of salt, but he said he liked it.
It was fun, we ended with sugar, a trip to the drinking fountain and some vigorous coloring-turned-pirate fighting.
4 comments:
I think you really ought to consider publishing the Sunbeam Chronicles. You're hilarious. And I love that the Sunbeams all have code names. I would've been Bigfoot.
I miss teaching primary. My favorite lesson was "I'm grateful for animals". Then this little boy told me all about a frog that didn't really exist but if it did he would save it from his brother.
Wow...you should have brought Worcestershire Sauce, or maybe Tabasco..you could introduce the sensation of burning to them!! You definitely have an entertaining calling.
I don't think I've EVER had that lesson in Elder's Quorum. What is with our curriculum? Maybe I'll pull some strings in my ward.
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