Toasted Quilt Squares

Supplies

• one slice of bread
• 1/2 slice white cheese
• 1/2 slice yellow cheese

Materials

• one small 6"paper plate per child
• one aluminum foil baking sheet per child
• plastic knives
• small shape cookie cutters
• oven: convection, conventional, or toaster oven

Directions

1. Place the bread on the baking sheet.
2. Tear the cheese or use knives or cutters to make shapes with the cheese to make a design on the bread.
3. Toast to melt the cheese.
4. Cool and eat.

Teacher Tips

• Before beginning this activity, have the children draw and color the design they are going to make. After toasting, have the children sort them and arrange them like a quilt. Take pictures for observations later.
• For a variation, direct the students to cut the cheese slices in one inch strips. Demonstrate how to lay the strips in a pattern, white, yellow, white, yellow, and to criss-cross or weave them to form a patch work effect. Toast as above.

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