Welcome to the 3-5 years area. These resources have been developed to help young children learn about healthy eating, cooking and where food comes from.
There are two types of resource in this area.
1. Food-based sessions
This resource comprises 10 sessions based around different meal occasions. During each session, the children are involved in a practical cooking activity, developed to help them learn more about the meals they eat and how to create simple, healthy dishes.
Included in the sessions are colourful card activities and letters to take home. The letters tell parents and carers what their children have been learning and provide a follow up activity for them to do together.
There is a comprehensive guide providing information such as how to write a food policy, safely set up a cooking area and how to tempt children to taste food. The guide also shows how the sessions link to curricular around the UK.
2. Healthy eating, Cooking and Where food comes from, activity sessions
This resource comprises 12 activity sessions. Four for each of the following areas:
Healthy eating;
Cooking;
Where food comes from.
Each activity session includes notes to explain how to run the session, and supporting resource such as card activities, colourful photographs and recipes.
