Learning Based Dinner Activity

Who’s Invited to Dinner? –a learning based dinner activity

Dinner time is a family time. Talking around the table is instrumental in building relationships. Occasionally, it is fun to feed their minds and not just fill their bellies at the event. A five minute “splash” of knowledge about a person in history sparks questions and conversation. You can head up the instruction or let your kids take turns.

It is fun to create a simple display as a center piece that makes the kids wonder what is going on for dinner. For example: You could “invite” Thomas Edison to dinner. In the center of the table you could place a light bulb, a microphone, a phone, etc. He invented a lot of things and improved upon others. Where would we be today without these inventions? What qualities helped Thomas be a good inventor?

Let your imagination take over and have a fun time! Invite Louis Pasteur and set a row of milk jugs on the table…talk about where the word “pasteurized” came from.

It doesn’t hurt to just make a place card and write the name of the person you are inviting on it.

You could even make a list of accomplishments of the person and have your family guess who you are talking about.

There are so many simple ways to get minds thinking and learning. Here’s a beginning to the list of people I’d love to “invite” to dinner:

Marie Curie

Philo T. Farnsworth