Can you taste the difference between pears and sweet potatoes? Have kids test their taste buds with this taste detective game; a fun 5 senses activity.
Supplies
- Various of baby food flavors
- Blindfolds (You can get a 10 pk on amazon for less than $10)
- Disposable spoons
- Paper and pencil
How to Play Taste Detective
​Purchase a variety of baby food flavors. You want variety, fruit, vegetable, and meat flavors such as:
- Sweet potato
- Chicken and rice
- Banana
- Vegetable beef dinner
- Pears
- Green beans
- Macaroni and cheese
- Peas
- Etc.
How to: Taste Detective
Keep the baby food hidden until you are ready to start the activity. Have kids partner up, and blindfold one of the two partners. Handout a few spoons to the seeing member of each partner pair.
Open the first container of baby food and throw away the label so no one else knows the flavor. Have the seeing partner take a spoonful of the food and pass the container until every partner has a spoon of baby food. Have the partner feed the food to the taste detective.
The detective will focus on what they think it tastes like. The seeing partner, can not give any hints such as the color or thickness of the food. When the taste detective thinks they know what the flavor of the food is, the seeing partner will write it down.
Have kids switch roles, the seeing partner will now be the taste detective and the taste detective will now be the seeing partner. Repeat the steps, giving each seeing partner a spoon and passing around another baby food flavor. Then the seeing partner will write down the detectives flavor guess.
This activity continues back and forth until you have used all the baby food flavors. After all the food is gone go through each flavor, the flavor the kids tasted and who was the most accurate.
If your budget allows, purchase a few extras of each flavor for kids to taste as you reveal each flavor.
Kids will love this games, as some baby foods taste much better than others its kind of like a game of baby food roulette.
