Materials list:

Help your child find these materials or a close substitute: 

• A device to call a friend or family member who’s not at your house
• Assorted ingredients, let kids know which foods are okay to use and which are off limits.

Activity Steps:

Use these to keep your innovator on track as they create: 

1. 1. Think about a friend or family member in another house with whom you’d like to make a matching snack. Get permission to call them and confirm they can create with you.
   2. Tour your cupboards, refrigerator, etc. to find ingredients you both have and that you are both allowed to use.
   3. Be collaborative and select at least 3 ingredients you can use to create something you’ll both enjoy eating. Use the phrase “Yes and…” to build on each other’s ideas and value the other person’s perspective, even if you disagree.
   4. Work together to design and plate your dish so they match down to the last detail.
   5. Eat and enjoy!
   6. Don’t forget to put everything away. Wash your dishes and leave your kitchen as clean as you found it.

Guiding Questions:

If your child is stuck, try asking these questions to help them keep on innovating: 

• [If disagreements arise] What’s one part of your partner’s idea you like? How might you include that part of their idea in your dish?
• What details do you need to share to make matching dishes? Consider portion size, how you prepare and cut various ingredients, how it looks on the plate.

More Ideas:

Every project presents opportunities to add your own twists or extensions. Here are some ideas to get you started: 

• Collaboration pro tip: Don’t fret if a disagreement arises. This is a totally normal part of working with others. Give your child and their partner some time to see if they can talk through it. If they really get stuck you can suggest they take turns making the next decisions. For example: One person decides what fruit to use and the other person decides how to cut it.
• Step it up! Try collaborative “cooking” with more than one partner. The more cooks in the kitchen, the more challenging it is to find common ingredients and create a common vision.
• Innovate on! Have your child think about how they would level up or modify the dish they just made. They can try their new ideas out tomorrow!

Wrap Up Questions:

Lock in the learning by asking your child these questions about their project and how they practiced the featured Innovator’s Mindset element: 

• How did your matching dish turn out? Would you make it again?
• What idea did you start with? How did you and your partner collaborate to build on that idea? How did the idea change?
• Did you and your partner have any challenges? How did you work through them?
• How is the dish you made different than what you might have made on your own?

The last step in the Gallieo Innovator’s Process is SHARE. Great learning can come from sharing successes and failures—to solidify your own experience as an innovator and to inspire others.

SHARE WITH galileo

Take a picture of your child’s final dish or a video of them explaining how they made it and share it with the Camp Galileo Anywhere Facebook Community.

Share with family and friends

Your innovation doesn’t stop with you. Inspire someone else by sharing your project challenge—maybe they’ll try it themselves or maybe your project will give them a new idea.

• Who: someone in your house, a family member, a friend
• How: in person, on the phone, online
• When: anytime, starting now!