Cookin' Cookies

Cookin' Cookies - Use a pattern card and collect the ingredients you need for your recipe.

Cookin' Cookies is a baking-themed card game that comes in a cute, metal lunch box tin. Will you be making peanut butter, chocolate chip or oatmeal cookies? Quickly find the ingredients you need to win the game.

Each player starts with one recipe card. Each recipe card has a list of five ingredients. The ingredients are written but there is also a picture beside each one so you don't need to know how to read to play (see image above). The round cards (above) are the ingredient cards. The goal is to be the first to find the five ingredient cards that match the five ingredients on your recipe card.

Cookin' Cookies requires players to pick up the ingredient cards in a unique way - with a spoon. Each spoon has a suction cup on the back of it and you can use the spoon in its short version, or you can pull on the spoon and lengthen it for a longer reach. Let me mention here that my game used to work, but now the suction cups will not pick up anything. Age, heat? Probably both.

Short spoon                         Expanded spoon                         Suction cup

Object:

Be the first person to find the five ingredients you need for your recipe.

 

Set up:

Spread the ingredient cards face-down on the table and mix them up. Give each player a recipe card and a spoon. 

Play:

When the signal is given to go, all players play at the same time. Smack your spoon onto an ingredient card to pick it up. Turn it over to look at the ingredient. Do you need it? If yes, keep the card and smack another card to try and match another ingredient. If you don't need it, put the card back in the pile, face down, and try again. Try to remember where the cards are that you have already turned so that you don't waste time turning them over again.

If you are unlucky enough to pick up a card with a picture of a rotten egg, you must return all of your collected cards to the pile and start over. Speed and a little luck avoiding the rotten egg are required to win. Play until someone finds the five ingredients that they need for their recipe.

Try this:

• Eliminate speed and let one person play.  Or two kids work to collect their recipe ingredients without competing.
• Turn it into a simple matching game, with cards face down on the table and each player picking two, looking for a set. There are eight sets of two ingredients. Pick up the card where it lays on the table, do not pull it to the side of the table to pick up.
• Pick out the four different recipe cards. Turn the ingredient cards face up on the table. Overlap some, turn some sideways and upside down. Ask the individual to assemble the ingredients for each recipe card. Use the spoon or don't.
• Add sequencing by requiring that the ingredients be picked up in the order on the recipe card. If you pick up something you don't need yet, remember where you put it back down for later.
• Scatter the ingredient cards face up on the table. Give the individual one recipe card and ask him to find the necessary ingredient cards.
• Follow one of the recipe cards and assemble the five ingredients. Give the individual a choice of recipe cards to pick from and ask them to pick the card that matches your ingredients.
• Show the individual one recipe card. Let them look at it for 15-30 seconds, stress memorizing the ingredients. Turn the card over. Ask the individual to scan the face-up ingredient cards on the table and choose the ingredients they need. Put only one card for each ingredient, or for more of a busy background, put all the ingredient cards.
• Eliminate the rotten egg so no one needs to start over.
• Shuffle the ingredient cards and place them in a pile, face down. Ask the player to pick up one card at a time without toppling the pile, and sort them into piles by ingredient.
• Use as an introduction to teaching the individual about recipes. Make a simple snack from a recipe card when you are done playing.
• Work on visual discrimination, figure ground, visual closure, visual memory, visual scanning, eye-hand coordination, tool use, executive functioning skills, socialization skills, process skills, play and leisure exploration and participation
  
  
  In the lunch tin: 4 expandable spoons with suction cups, 8 recipe cards, 26 ingredient cards

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