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.  

    Cooking with toddlers is one of the best ways to make connections across and amongst many disciplines, maths, science, pre-literacy and reading!  

  Just the experience of creating meals can help build their self-confidence.  

Our cooking lessons have also helped us learn to make healthy food choices.

  We've had super fun making, bread in a bag, ice cream, snow cones and teddy bear toast.  

 

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.

 

 

• 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.

 

  We will be doing lots more cooking projects over the coming weeks.  

It's all about having fun!