Food Fun andCooking
Our related blog articles on cooking and food fun can be read by clicking on the titles below;
Need help knowing what to include in your preschooler's lunchbox? Click here to see our recommended dos and don'ts!
Looking for some more recipe ideas? Look no further! Cbeebies provides amazing recipes, for all age ranges, so check this out and try some at home.
Learning doesn't just happen at school, why not print off these flashcards and use them at home to further learn about cooking and food! Download them here.
These printable sheets not only quiz your child's knowledge on the names of a variety of different foods, it also question whether they like or dislike them! Why not level this activity up too! Simply use these printable sheets, and have samples of each food item too, as a fun way to experiment with new flavours.
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Provide taste, touch, smell, and colour experiences with safe raw ingredients using a taste tray! You can use anything you have, including a muffin oven tray. Make sure that whilst your preschooler is sampling foods, you are encouraging descriptive language (soft, crunchy, juicy, smooth, etc.). Some taste test ideas could include;
crackers, cheese, sliced ham, pickles, olives, melon, carrots, celery, apple, raisins, popcorn, cottage cheese, marshmallows, raw peppers etc.
Print off this food-inspired wordsearch, and let your preschoolers enjoy!
To level up this activity, you could even have samples of each food item, so once they have found the word in the wordsearch, they can try and see whether they like that food item! The food items to find are: sushi, pizza, rice, French fries, cake, fried chicken, steak, hamburger, cheese and bread.
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Smelling Jars are a great sensory tool that allows preschoolers to identify and compare different scents, learning to discriminate between them. It also improved memory, focus, builds cognitive association and promotes independent learning. We would recommend using strong scents ( essential oils on cotton wool, kitchen spices, citrus fruits, vanilla extract, but the options are endless!).
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To expand on this activity, ask your child to play a matching game! Print off photos of the items you select, and see if they can identify the hidden scent to the correct photo.
