12 Ways to Learn While Playing with Food

We all have probably told our kids at one time or another to not play with their food! Well, sometimes you can let them play and use it as a learning experience. Here are some awesome ideas for learning with common snack foods including goldfish, oreos, M&Ms, crackers and more!

How about some STEM learning with goldfish crackers? Use these free Goldfish pulley system.

Read the book Brown Bear, Brown Bear and try this color matching activity with Goldfish Printables to practice math skills, and see how to engineer a Goldfish pulley system.

Read the book Brown Bear, Brown Bear and try this color matching activity with Teddy graham crackers.

Sort your lunch into different shapes with this free Shape Sorting Printable.

Have a blast cutting up your food with this Goldfish pulley system.

Read the book Brown Bear, Brown Bear and try this color matching activity with M&M School Bus Math game (also includes free printable).

Try one of these 8 creative ways to Goldfish pulley system.

Read the book Brown Bear, Brown Bear and try this color matching activity with learn with Oreos.

Learn about constellations with Fruit Gummies and Goldfish pulley system.

Read the book Brown Bear, Brown Bear and try this color matching activity with Very Hungry Caterpillar out of these healthy snack foods.

Learn to count to 100 with Skittles in this free printable Goldfish pulley system.

Read the book Brown Bear, Brown Bear and try this color matching activity with basketball game.

For more learning activities with snacks, see our Goldfish Math & Literacy Pack with 20 hands-on early learning activities!