Themed tea party and funny tea riddles

2024 Author: Priscilla Miln | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 00:21

Tea is a wonderful and adored drink. He is loved by both adults and children. To get acquainted with the traditions of tea drinking, you can hold a themed evening at school and in kindergarten. Even in the office, it is quite acceptable to arrange an interesting tea gathering. After all, most adults remain children at heart. They love to have fun and learn new things about tea.

The theme of the evening is tea

Theme nights are wonderful because they bring people together, allow them to have fun and relax. Such a meeting of friends is carried out as follows: the appointed leader asks questions and makes riddles about tea. And in between times he tells interesting facts about this wonderful drink. All this takes place at a table set for tea drinking, on which buns, bagels, cakes and, of course, a samovar with tea flaunt.

Riddles about tea: regular and rhyming

The acquaintance with the history and traditions of tea drinking begins with the fact that the presenter asks the audience a riddle question: who knows in which countrydid the custom of drinking tea originate? If the evening is held for schoolchildren or preschoolers, then before this question it would be best to ask the kids a riddle, let them say the answer in unison:

In the cold we walked –

And cold and tired.

To keep warm, pour up

Fragrant strong… (tea)!

Followed by a short lecture about where the tradition of drinking a delicious and fragrant drink originated.

Interesting facts

Children and adults can be told that the tradition of tea drinking originated in China. Once, a very long time ago, more than 5 thousand years ago, one Chinese emperor settled down to rest under the tea bushes. He ordered his servants to warm water for him to drink. While the water cooled in the bowl, a breeze picked up, and leaves flew off the swaying branches of the bush. Several of them hit the ruler's cup. The emperor was a curious person, he did not take the leaves out of the bowl, but decided to check what would come of it. When the water cooled to a warm state, he drank it and was extremely surprised by the changed taste. Ordinary water has acquired a delicate aroma and pleasant astringency. In addition, the emperor even felt more cheerful. This was immediately noted. Since then, the tradition of brewing and drinking tea has been born in China.

Continuation of the evening - funny riddles

Next, the facilitator asks, "Does anyone know why this drink is called tea"? This interesting riddle makes children think that any name has its own background, history of origin. Deal with the answerthe leader can ask one of the assistants. This may be a child who prepared the answer in advance at home. He tells that once our Russian people traded with their neighbors who inhabited the northern Chinese provinces. At that time, tea with its magnificent properties had already been discovered by the aforementioned emperor. So the Chinese not only drank it every day, but also sold it to the peoples of other countries. They called him cha. Our name has adapted and taken root as "tea". Since then, the drink has become everyone's favorite and revered.

And that's not all tea riddles. Further, since we are talking about the tradition of tea drinking that has now appeared on Russian soil, the presenter tells that we began to brew and insist the drink in samovars. For quite a long period of time in every self-respecting family, he was considered a mandatory attribute of the table. And now it's time to remember the funny riddles about tea in the form of entertaining poetic lines written by modern authors:

There is a shiny one on the table, Fat-belly, real

Steam comes out from under the lid.

- Hello, uncle, samovar!

I came to visit, meet me!

Pour me a strong cup into a cup… (tea).

Continuation of the story

So, the puzzles about tea continue. When did the plant from which the drink is made begin to be grown in Europe? After all, at first it was produced only in China. And this was preceded by a whole detective story. One day, an Englishman, sneaking deep into the Chinese province, managed topeep and learn the secret of tea processing, which, by the way, was quite complicated. In addition, he also stole tea seeds. After this story, Europeans were also able to grow and process tea in their colonies.

Awakening students' interest in history helps unite the class team. After each serious lecture, the host again switches to funny riddles. Thus, the children have the opportunity to relax a little and rest. For example, a riddle about a mug for tea, more precisely, about a lot of mugs:

Essential for tea drinking

Candies, shortcakes, cheesecakes

And definitely needed

For delicious tea, large … (mugs).

And at the end of the evening, the host tells the children about the benefits of tea. What a unique aroma is given by essential oils and acids useful for the stomach, which are in the drink. How this divine product invigorates and stimulates the body. After all, it is tea among all medicinal plants that is in one of the first places, as it improves digestion, relieves fatigue and activates mental activity. And how many vitamins are in tea!

And so that the tea party ends on a cheerful wave, the hosts are finally presented with a riddle about a tea bag:

If guests come to us

I take him by the ponytail.

Pour boiling water, Dipping with my head.

It is of great use.

What is this? A bag of… (tea).

On this joyful note, everyone sits down at the table and drinks fresh tea, eating it with delicious gingerbread and buns.