Strainer Flashcard for Preschoolers
Ages 6+Grown-up tools
The fine mesh net on a handle — the strainer is the colander’s careful cousin: its holes are so small they catch flour dust and tea leaves, letting only the liquid slip through.
Say it together
“Strainer! The net with the handle. The mesh is tiny — it catches the flour lumps, the seeds, the bits… and lets the liquid run through clean. Sift, strain, drip drip. The strainer is the careful one!”
Say it naturally, then wait. Whatever comes back — the word, the sound, a point, a giggle — is the right answer.
Try this
Name it next to the colander — same idea, finer net — and test the pair: which catches flour? Which catches pasta? Then watch a grown-up dust a cake with icing sugar through the strainer: a snowfall of sugar, all from the mesh. The strainer’s magic is its smallness — holes too small to see, big enough to matter.
Quick parent note
Strainer and colander make a beautiful compare-and-contrast pair for the Ages 6+ shelf: same job, different hole size, different catches. Understanding "the mesh chooses what passes" is early engineering thinking — and icing-sugar snowfalls are unbeatable theater.
Teach it, step by step
Want the full walkthrough? Open the Strainer lesson on the Learning Path.
From the Kitchen Things (Extra Class) room — with every lesson one tap away.
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