The purpose of this snack time activity is to mimic what happens in a restaurant setting. Everyone gets a menu and one child acts as the server and finds out what the others want. The server records what everyone orders, using pictures of the food. 

What’s included

• 16 different snack food pictures (animal crackers, grapes, marshmallows, tortilla chips, cookies, crackers, peanut butter, bananas, apple, cheese crackers, string cheese, Nutella, pretzels, popcorn, oranges, or dried apples)
• A grid form; this serves as the order form
• Menus

What you’ll need to provide

Snack food
Pictures of the participants

Directions

The grid has 5 columns. You need a column for each person in the group, so print additional girds if required. You will need pictures of each person in the group, including you as a clinician. Place the pictures of the group participants at the top of the columns. 

When you build the grid, put the picture of the server that day in the last column. In this way they get to practice asking other people what they want and then serving themselves last.

Prepare menu boards for each person by placing the foods offered that day on the menus. 

It’s the server’s job to ask each person they want and record it by moving the food pictures from their menu to the grid/order form.

Check out this podcast episode: The Conversation Game on incorporating conversation with snack time, and the Simple Tools Under the Umbrella video showing how to use the Snack Time activity.