October is National Dessert Month

October is National Dessert Month. Early childhood students will love talking about and experimenting with desserts all month long.

Plan a special dessert for each week. Fridays would be a good day to celebrate National Dessert Month by having the students help make a special dessert.

Ask students about their favorite desserts. Make a chart of their desserts and tally the number of students who say they like certain desserts. Make a bar graph from their dessert preferences: cookies, cake, ice cream, pie.

Then make a graph of how many students prefer chocolate cake over yellow cake or chocolate chip cookies over oatmeal cookies or apple pie over pumpkin pie. Have the students count the number in each bar graph.

For an additional math activity, cut out cookie shapes from construction paper. On one cookie shape, color in one dot for a chocolate chip. One second cookie shape, color in two dots for two chocolate chips. Do this for as many cookies as you want in the activity. Have students line cookies up in order: cookie shape with one dot goes first, then two dots, then three dots, and so on until all cookies are lined up in numerical order.

Students can also match numbers with the corresponding cookie shape with chocolate chip dots. Number one goes with cookie shape with one dot and so on.

Make a class book of Favorite Desserts for the month. Have students draw or cut out pictures of their favorite desserts and put each page into a class book. This book is sure to be the yummiest book in the class library.

Have parents send in recipes of their family’s favorite dessert and include in another class book to share with other parents of the class. Some of these recipes could be the special Friday desserts for the month.