Cooking And Gardening For Young Children.
Cooking And Gardening For Young Children.
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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Tried and Tested - Kitchen Ideas
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25/03/2009 21:12:00 We devised this activity to use a little fun and competition to distract from the natural fear of trying new foods.
Small groups of children try five bite size pieces of food. The game is that they are blindfolded (if they are comfortable with this) and they have to guess what they are tasting. The children are given a strip of paper with five fruit and vegetable images as clues to help them guess what they are eating The focus here has to be on comfortable adventurousness, on stretching children without fear to go a little further than they might have expected. The element of silliness in the blindfolds and the desire to get the guessing right can lead children to be more adventurous than when simply faced with a plate of food to try. There are suggestions in the instructions about language to use and alternatives to full tasting for reticent children. Here's the instructions if you think you might like to run this activity:
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Tasting Activity How To Guide