What Does Your Friend Like to Eat?
Interview a friend about their favorite foods, record answers, and make a simple chart or mini-poster to compare tastes and learn about data.
Step-by-step guide to interview a friend about their favorite foods
Step 1
Pick a friend you want to interview about food.
Step 2
Write five simple questions about favorite foods on your paper.
Step 3
Choose six foods to ask about and write them as a list.
Step 4
Draw a chart grid with one row for you and one row for your friend and columns for each food using your ruler.
Step 5
Read your questions out loud one time to practice.
Step 6
Ask your friend each question.
Step 7
Mark your friend's answers on the chart.
Step 8
Answer the same five questions for yourself.
Step 9
Mark your own answers on the chart.
Step 10
Count how many people liked each food.
Step 11
Write the total number of likes at the bottom of each food column.
Step 12
Add a big title at the top of your chart to turn it into a mini-poster.
Step 13
Decorate the poster with colors drawings or stickers to make it fun.
Step 14
Share your finished mini-poster on DIY.org
Final steps
You're almost there! Complete all the steps, bring your creation to life, post it, and conquer the challenge!
Help!?
If I don't have a ruler or stickers, what can I use instead?
Use a straight edge like a book or the edge of a cereal box to draw your chart grid and substitute crayons, markers, or cut-out magazine pictures for stickers to decorate the mini-poster.
My chart looks messy and my friend got confused while answering—how can I fix that?
Redraw the chart grid neatly using a straight edge, clearly label the two rows (you and your friend) and each food column, and practice reading your five questions out loud once before you ask so answers are recorded correctly.
How can I adapt this activity for a 4-year-old or a 10-year-old?
For a 4-year-old, use only three pictured foods and let them mark likes with stickers, while for a 10-year-old expand to more classmates, keep the six-food list, and turn the counts into a simple bar graph based on the totals at the bottom of each column.
What are some ways to enhance or personalize our finished mini-poster?
Add photos of the actual foods, use different colors or stickers to show likes before you add a big title and decorations, convert the bottom totals into a small bar chart, and then photograph the poster to share on DIY.org.
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Facts about surveys and simple data charts
🌍 Favorite foods are often shaped by culture and local ingredients — what’s common in one place may be rare in another.
🗣️ Open questions (like “What do you like about it?”) usually get longer, more interesting answers than yes/no questions.
🍕 Pizza often ranks as a top favorite food for kids in many countries — easy to share and customize!
📊 Simple bar charts make it quick and fun to see which foods are most popular in a group.
🥦 Tastes can change: children often need to try a new food 8–10 times before they start to like it.
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