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These pages are a mixture of our own resources, and those we have found from other people and organisations. Some resources here have been provided by practitioners and parents who have tried and tested them, but you will have to assess for yourself the benefits for your own children and whether it will meet the guidelines you are working with.

Some resources are created by food industries. While they are not allowed to promote intentionally inaccurate information, they will naturally wish to promote their product as the most important part of the diet. However some of the resources they provide are very good when used in context. Wherever I am aware that a resource is industry sponsored I will say so, and you can exercise your common sense in evaluating it.


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Food Modelling Activity

27/03/2009 18:55:00

A first step in reducing fear of new foods is building familiarity - seeing, touching, smelling as well as tasting foods.

This activity uses playdough or saltdough modelling as an anchor to encourage children to observe, touch and explore fruits and vegetables with the apprehension of eating them removed.

If you want to repeat this activity every month using different seasonal fruits or vegetables, you can use the five foods in the tasting activity as a guide.

 

Here's our instructions:

Modelling Activity