Reduce fear of new foods by building familiarity - seeing, touching, and smelling foods
Use playdough or saltdough modelling as a way to encourage children to observe, touch and explore fruits and vegetables without any fear of being made to eat them
Build manual skills and get children to discuss food in a non dinner table environment
Build vocabulary to describe textures and shapes
Resources needed:
Instructions
Saltdough or playdough
Paints and brushes (if using saltdough)
Modelling tools, such as scrapers, cutters, rollers and items to score lines and bodge holes in the dough