Education
Introducing children to cooking…
around the world. Children will eagerly tuck into
something they have prepared themselves and take great pride in watching someone else enjoy their food. Cooking brings plenty of opportunities
Helping my mother cook is one of my early memories from my preschool years. She was exceedingly patient! Small children are often keen to do what you are doing, so involve them in the preparation of their food, make this involvement fun and you will be fostering the development of the following positive outcomes: • Providing them with the opportunity to begin accepting responsibility for their own eating habits
• Providing them with a wonderful sense of achievement • Enticing them to try foods they have previously rejected.
Cooking activities are the perfect
combination of fun and creativity and are a great way to teach children about the food they eat as well as introducing them to new foods from
for introducing new vocabulary, asking questions and making, as well as allowing children to acquire and hone skills such as counting, measuring, weighing and understanding time and fractions. Make sure the activities you ask of your child are age appropriate. Below is a quick guide, but you know your child best and what would be most suitable for them. Two years: Scrubbing, tearing, dipping. Three years: Pouring, mixing, spreading, shaking. Four years: Wiping, washing, peeling, cutting, rolling, mashing, grating. Cooking with children it requires a
little planning. Think ahead about the recipe and start simple with something like scrambled egg or pikelets, or maybe something that doesn't require cooking, like fruit salad.
when offering new tastes and foods to children, it may take ten separate occasions before they
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kidsunlimited Maidstone Open from January 2012
Cooking is a bit like reading and if you
learn the basics first, the rest should fall into place. These are some of the best techniques, to aim to teach your child: • Peeling vegetables with a vegetable peeler.
• Chopping onions leaving the root intact so that it does not fall apart. • Mashing potatoes with a potato masher.
• Grating cheese. • Squeezing citrus fruit. • Cracking eggs by tapping the centre of the shell over the rim of a small bowl.
• Using a hand held blender to make things like smoothies.
• Rubbing in butter and flour for crumble.
• Greasing and lining cake tins. • How to tell if a cake is cooked by seeing if a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean. Most importantly, have fun and don’t
worry too much about the mess. Miriam Brown, Early Years Manager, kidsunlimited
OPENS January 2012 Ground-breaking NEW “Green” Day Nursery offering:
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