Spring Salad Recipe | Autism Friendly

This worksheet pack takes the student through how to make a Spring vegetable salad - thinking about seasonality. There are various different recipes with varying levels of support - all using visuals. There is also a worksheet on understanding seasonality and recipe recorder sheets, where students can write down the skills they used and rate their food. Finally there is a visual communication board with key vocabulary.

The first activity is getting the students to write a shopping list for their recipe, using photos and visuals to support them. This is differentiated into three levels. The second task is the recipe itself, again there are three types; very simple with visuals, a checklist version and a salad dressing recipe for those who can access it. The next activity is a simple ordering task - taking the key parts of the recipe and seeing if the students can recall the process. The next task is a sorting activity on seasonal fruit and vegetables. Finally there are some recipe recorder sheets, where students can recall the skills they used and whether they liked the meal, etc.

We have differentiated the worksheets into three levels; the most difficult has three spirals in the top left hand corner and the easiest has just one spiral in the top left hand corner.

This activity was made by the Sensory Trust - we have lots of other free resources on our website.