Try sensory play to enhance your child\u2019s knowledge. Fill a bag with some unusual food ingredients – including some your child might never have seen before – and ask them to guess the contents. Consider: carrots with their leaves on, lettuce, sugar snap peas, unpeeled root ginger, corn on the cob and a different type of pasta. Can your child sort them into the same vegetable groups? \u00a0How do the shapes and textures of the different foods make them different? Explore together who eats those foods and where they come from.<\/p>\n
Activity 2 <\/strong><\/p>\n Encourage problem-solving and evaluation by asking which of your child\u2019s favourite meals is the best one to make if they had to feed a group of ten children. Lead them to consider taste, cost of ingredients, how long it takes to make, effort, and nutritional value. Chat over the possible answers.<\/p>\n Activity 3<\/strong><\/p>\n Cookery fun! Choose a simple recipe to make together and let your child lead the stirring, mashing or shaping. Then, take creativity to the next level: can they predict which ingredient goes best with the dish e.g. chocolate or blueberries in pancakes. See if they can give evidence for their opinion to back up their choice, such as \u201cIt doesn\u2019t make the food go gooey or soggy.\u201d Could your child even think of a more unusual ingredient to add that you can put in the meal together? How could they change it visually?<\/p>\n Ideas to Encourage Critical Thinking:<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Is your HLP child fascinated by your kitchen? Maybe they\u2019re curious about the ingredients that you have to hand, as well as how and when you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001684,"featured_media":8550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[196,474,799],"tags":[231,197,232,201,210,203,198],"class_list":["post-8548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-focus","category-learning-activities","category-skillsbuilder","tag-cooking","tag-creativity","tag-food","tag-listening","tag-preschool","tag-problem-solving","tag-skills-builder"],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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