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How Cooking Can Help Preschoolers Make Healthy Choices
- January 30, 2017
- Category: Preschool, School News
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Preschool Cooking Up a Storm!
This month in Preschool we have introduced 'cooking' in to our curriculum and looking at how cooking can help preschoolers make healthy choices.![Preschool ISTCI Preschool ISTCI](http://www.internationalschooltci.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Preschool-ISTCI-1-e1486138240125.jpg)
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Cooking can help:
- Build basic skills - Asking what comes first, second, and third or count together as you spoon ingredients. When you read a recipe together, you're introducing new words to your child's vocabulary and promoting literacy.
- Encourage an adventurous palate. - Preschoolers can be picky eaters, and bringing them into the kitchen to cook can help get them to open up to new tastes. It is great to encourage children to taste new ingredients.
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- Help children explore with their senses. - Let them explore new textures, smells, sounds and tastes.
- Boost confidence. - It is that moment when they get to see, smell and taste what they have made.
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