COOKING
Children learn by doing, and cooking gives a child the opportunity
to understand more about foods. Motor, sensory, conceptual and social
skills all play a part.
We use ingredients for cooking in as close to their natural state
as possible, to help children gain an awareness of whole foods.
In the process of cooking a child may:
- measure
- feel
- mix
- smell
- count
- take turns
- taste
- clean up
These activities stimulate questions and investigations, increase
vocabulary and present experiences of scientific nature. For
example,
butter softens more quickly in one’s hand than in a bowl.
Why?
Most important of all, children delight in cooking because it
is fun, they can get their hands in the batter, they can see
the
changes that take place and they can eat what they cook!
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