In the Kitchen
Play
Tell the children that you’re preparing ingredients for a dinner, which needs strong flavors (maybe some aliens are visiting and their taste buds aren’t as strong as humans).
Go ‘into the kitchen’ and ask the children what strong flavors they can think of (e.g. lemon).
Ask them where the lemon is (fridge? cupboard? table?). Imagine that each food is in a different place – and everyone has to stretch or bend down or stand on a chair to get it (or maybe there are no lemons, so we have to buy some from the shop).
Once everyone has the food, touch it, smell it and then eat it. Ask the children how it tastes.
Let the children make the decisions but make sure to include: something sour (lemon/lime), something sweet (chocolate), something spicy (chilli). And also something cold (ice cream), and something hot (potatoes). You could also do something disgusting (rotten tomato).
Extend
Let them draw the foods (or draw them on a worksheet yourself and let them color in). If their literacy is good enough, let them label the foods.