Colour and Taste

There are lots of ways that parents like to teach there little ones colours and how to count and we came up with a fun little way to do this by counting fruit as we put it into the juicer and saying the colours as it went in and how it came out

We just love mucking about in the kitchen especially with food, Sophie now makes a Saturday juice up, her own inventions of what ever fruit takes her fancy and then squishes them all up into a lovely big jug of yum.    Sophie does not really need to learn her colours but i thought it would be interesting to find out what a 3 year olds interpretation of what colours taste like, a bit like how would you describe the colour blue to a blind person.

We juiced each different fruit watermelon, cherries, oranges, apples and kiwis all very different from each other and before mixing it up she got to taste it and tell me what the colour tasted like, mostly the answer was juicy and sweet so i decided to give her a list of flavours for her to match up to the fruit like sharp, sour, sweet, crisp, watery etc to make her think about tastes and flavours that belong to the fruits, we also chatted about how the textures of the fruits felt like on her tongue as we had kiwis with little seeds and oranges with tiny pillows of bursting juice and cherries with skins that felt smooth on the tongue and apples that were grainy.   

It was good fun tasting the individual flavours before mixing them up in the big jug and then re trying the drink to taste how it had changed and how they could go together in a different way another time.   Sophie loved the bright colours of the mashed up fruit and thought it was amazing how mixing the juices up in the jug the colours changed with each new fruit juice.    After all the sweet juicy fruit we raided the fridge to try something different and we found a big red chilli hmmm yum ?  there was definitely some heat there and she took it no problem.  Wonder what next week juice will be ?