Wacky Wednesday: A Recipe for Valentine's Day Success

A tried and true activity that many teachers and parents use with their children is to create a "recipe" for a concept, rather than cookies or quick bread (i.e. "recipe for success", "kindness recipe"). Jazz up that assignment with the help of the Valentine's Day recipe template available from Smilebox:

Digital recipe card made with Smilebox

[Note: I included a "Reflection" area on my recipe card to relate some information about a best friend that I had. If teachers create a reflective component to their reading, writing, art and other assignments, it's a major BOGO ("Buy one, get one free") moment -- creating the project itself and doing some higher level thinking (i.e. comparing and contrasting, evaluating, defending position) and communicating about it.]

If you do not already use Smilebox, you will soon begin to see a variety of ways to use this application in your home and school projects. With templates for recipes, collages, slideshows, scrapbooks and much more, you can take your favorite assignments and bring them into a Web 2.0-friendly format with a few clicks (and little tech-savvy is needed). Have you signed up for your free Smilebox Teacher's Toolbox account? You get all of the advantages of the ad-free, paid version of Smilebox at no expense, and will have a powerful technology tool with an ever-growing number of templates from which to choose.

Tomorrow, I will include another Smilebox project incorporating Valentine's Day (instead of my brooding, serious "Thinking" section, heh).