Food can be fun
Course Description
This session introduces the value and concept of why food is an important resource early years workers can use to develop children's creativity and learning, including its nutritional values. It provides workers with new ideas and opportunities to engage young children with food and encourages the use of different mediums to explore colour, texture, shape and form. It provides exciting new ideas to include in planning and a fresh approach to how activities with food can link to ongoing themes. It considers food linked to stories and how it can be used to support and develop literacy skills. Practitioners will take away lots of fun, practical ideas to adapt and work with in their own settings.
This session is delivered over 1 x 3hr session.
Aims and Objectives
To consider the importance of food as a tool to promote children's learning and development.
To consider the nutritional value of food and issues regarding health and safety e.g allergies and specific dietry needs when planning activities.
To consider how food can be used to promote equality and diversity to learn new ideas to engage young children with food and to promote creativity and the use of different mediums such as colour, texture, shape and form.
To explore sensory development through food.
To provide fun, practical cooking activities for children to learn and develop linked to stories.
To encourage workers to use their own intiative when planning and using food activities to support creative development and to consider how food can be used to promote literacy skills
To take away lots of fun practical recipies and activities to adapt and use in settings.
Links
Links to EYFS
- 1. A unique child
- 2. Positive relationships
- 3. Enabling evironments
- 4. Learning and development
Links to ECM
- 1. Be healthy
- 2. Stay safe
- 3. Enjoy and achieve
- 4. Making a positive contribution
- 5. Achieve economic well being
Links to CommonCore
- 1. Effective communication and engagement with children and families
- 2. Child and young person development
- 3. Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the child
- 4. Supporting transitions
- 5. Multi-agency working
- 6. Sharing information
Links to KEEP
- 1. Understanding of the individual and diverse ways that children learn and develop
- 2. Knowledge and understanding in order to support and extend childrens learning in and across all areas and aspects of learning
- 3. Practice in meeting all childrens needs, learning styles and interests
- 4. Work with parents, carers and the wider community
- 5. Work with other professionals within and beyond the setting
- 6. Relationship with both children and adults