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Cooking in the Early Years

Cooking in the Early Years

  • February 17, 2022
    2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

This session is now closed for online bookings but if you wish to attend, please email: support@lbhflearningpartnership.com before 5pm o 16.2.22

Cooking in the early years is a great, fun experience which offers a wealth of learning and development. One cooking activity is able to promote all seven areas of the early years foundation stage and because children enjoy the experience so much, they are not even aware they are learning about numbers or developing skills. As well as cooking developing all seven areas it is a sensory experience engaging often all five senses making it a more memorable experience and truly engaging the children in the early years. Cooking also gives children knowledge about food, where it comes from and what is healthy and unhealthy. As a practitioner these are all important skills to give to children in order to encourage them to make the food choices. It is also gives them valuable self-help skills and learn some delicious recipes along the way which they can share with their parents.

 

This course will show you how to get the most out of cooking in the early years including how to:

  • Allow the children to do as much as they can for themselves
  • Promote good hygiene before beginning such as cleaning tables and washing hands
  • Encourage the children to look at the ingredients and think about what they might be cooking
  • Encourage the children to name the ingredients and discuss where it has come from or how it grows
  • Make simple recipe cards containing small numbers and easy to measure units such as 1 cup
  • Encourage the children to weigh out their own ingredients
  • Teach them skills such as how to cut and prepare food safely
  • Talk about what is happening as you mix the ingredients together – Use scientific language with the older children such as solid and liquid
  • Promote observational skills using the senses to identify textures and smells
  • Be supportive and allow the children to explore, actively learn and critically think for themselves
  • Create an early years recipe book and log all of the wonderful things you have made
  • Talk about healthy and unhealthy choices as you cook
  • Encourage the children to share, work as a team and problem solve along the way.

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