Activity 7: Preparing and eating food
Theme and handwashing occasion: Remember to wash your hands before you prepare and eat food.
Activity 7, explores hand and food hygiene using a simple recipe presented as a series pictures which children will find easy to follow.
Note: care should be taken over children’s dietary considerations.
Using the repetition of Have You Washed Your Hands to the tune of Polly Put the Kettle On children will be reminded of the importance of hand washing before preparing or eating food.
Learning Opportunities for children aged 30-50 months include:
Personal, social and emotional development
Learning to work harmoniously with others, understanding their own tastes. Eating as a necessary part of life but also a social one.
Communication, language and literacy
Discussion of tastes, extend vocabulary, talk generally of foods/other ethnic foods
Knowledge and understanding of the world
Understand and follow simple instructions. Understanding of shape and time. Counting, number of biscuits produced. Understand and recognise different tastes, textures and names of food types.
Physical development
Fine and gross motor skills, pouring, mixing and manipulation.
Creative development
Imaginative decoration.