The Clubhouse is the Behavioral Intervention Association's (http://www.bia4autism.org) after-school program. Once a week, children between the ages of 5 and 12, who have communication and social challenges, meet and engage in fun activities to practice different social skills. Thanks to the generosity of our friends at the Jewish Community High School of The Bay who have given us access to their beautiful campus and their committed student volunteers, we were able to bring our East Bay Clubhouse program to San Francisco.

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Watermelon Smoothies (Summertime - Fun Time)

Cooking together is a great way of practicing taking turns and waiting turns, following directions, and a sequence, acquiring new vocabulary and learning how to compromise (e.g., "You can pour the juice in and I add the sugar."). It also may encourage picky eaters to try something new.

Today. we made "Watermelon Smoothies." We split up into two small groups and one of us took over the role of the "head chef," i.e., making sure that everyone had a cutting board and a plastic knife as well as followed the recipe closely.


Here is the recipe:
3 cups of chopped watermelon
10 strawberries, cut
Juice of half a lemon
½ cup peach juice
1  tablespoon of sugar
Put all ingredients in blender and blend until mixed well.

At snack time, we tried our smoothies. Most of us really liked it and we all thought the smoothie tasted like summer.
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