And the letter of the week is....X?

Question

Ok...my daughter got the letter X ( lucky me!! ), each childs family has to bring food with the letter of the week. It needs to be simple for a 5 - 6 yr to prepare. I need to prep it in front of her class. Please if you have any fun and simple ideas let me know. Thanks

Answer 1

How about making a Xylophone with different lengths of carrots or something.

My daughter is 3 and LOVES the letter X she finds all of the X's she can everywhere. You could use string cheese or anything else and make X's out of them.

Xigua is a fruit

I think that's the best I can find. There's Xanthium Gum which is in dressings, yogurt, sour cream, etc, but that's a little tough for little kids.

Answer 2

...so you have to bring in foods for the letter of the week?  How did you get X?

Either way, maybe something along the lines of:

XLNT = excellent __________

XLNT sushi

Buy Twinkies and roll fruit roll-ups around them.  Put a piece of fruit inside each slice so that it looks colorful and fun.  Kids could even do this--just give them things to stuff inside.

* I know this really has nothing TOO much to do with the letter X, but really???  X?!?!

Sorry if this is too absurd.

                      ...I guess teaching 6 year olds about xantham gum might be a bit over the top...

Answer 3

man...lucky you...lol...i was thinking maybe some rice crispy treats cut out in the shape of X's...that should do the trick!!

then you and your daughter could enjoy the scraps:):)

Answer 4

I think Xanthan gum is the way to go. Your child could bring a particular product that contains it—ice cream! All that would really have to be said is: "Xanthan gum makes ice cream creamy!" The best part: no one will care that the actual food doesn't begin with X, because everyone loves ice cream! (if someone does object--no ice cream for him!)

Salad dressing makes a better demonstration of the properties of xanthan gum, but forcing a group of five and six-year-olds to eat salad could harm your child's chances of becoming 'most popular.'

I know the above idea's not the best, but it beats mutilating the English language with 'xlnt' (Heaven help us!) Definitely not a good precedent for the children.

Another possibility is to bring a giant cardboard X and make the teacher eat it for giving your child such a ridiculous assignment without doing at least a little research. I read up on this challenge, and the last group that did it couldn't find an X or Q food.

Xtreme measures:

Of course, there's the ***** Pepper (Xylopia aethiopica). It was used as a pepper substitute in Europe when black pepper was scarce—in the 1300's, I think. Good luck finding that.

Ditto for the XIMENIA AMERICANA - AKA the Seaside Plum. I can't figure out what in the world this thing is, other than it's supposed to be edible.

Anyway, good luck! We're rooting for you!

(In the spirit of misery loves company, below after the informative links are some links to others whom X has defeated, including the mighty British Nutrition Foundation!)

Answer 5

Weeellll... This could be tough. One thing you could try is baking a long, rectangular sugar cookie from one of those ready to bake rolls. Then decorate it with colored icing  and / or sprinkles to look like a xylophone.

Same applies to those frozen, ready to bake brownies. They're in a little plastic pan, Just about the right size to get maybe 20-30 small pieces from. Kids could do it easily, as long as an adult handles the hot stuff. All the kids would have to do is decorate, which is pretty easy.

You could probably do something similar to that with Jello, too. Mix a few different colors in advance and pour into a cake pan or a cookie sheet so it sets in a flat, rectangular container. In front of the kids, cut it into the proper sizes and shapes, then arrange it to look like a xylophone. I'm not sure what you could use for mallets. Maybe a couple of suckers on long sticks?

Another possibility would be something sweetened with xylitol. It's used in Orbit sugar-free gum, among other stuff. I know there are recipe books you can find that use it as the sweetener for desserts, but I don't know any of the recipes.

That's about all I got for ya'. Good luck!

Answer 6

You could get a letter X cookie cutter and bake sugar cookies and then have the kids decorate them.