Sampling Olives

The dish full of green and black olives was a tasting activity that I set up for the children as part of our Noah's Ark theme.  In the story of Noah we are told that Noah sent out a dove who brought back an olive leaf in his beak indicating that the flood waters had receded and vegetation was once again growing on the earth.  I wanted to make the children's activities multi-sensory and the closest thing I had to an olive leaf or branch were olives.  Although the children had tasted olives before, they were usually part of pizza or pasta meal, so it was interesting to see whether they liked them on their own. They didn't!

I printed off the olive branch card so they could see the tasting activity in the context of the story.

Please click here to see our other Noah's Ark-related activities.