Brain boosting activity in the kitchen

Ignite your little one’s passion for food! Turn meal preparation into an enjoyable experience for the whole family to share.

Kitchen fun

Preparing the meal as a team creates an opportunity for talking and learning  for your toddler or pre-schooler and is a great brain boosting activity that can be repeated every day.

Here's a few tips to get you started:

• Decide together which ingredients to get out – talk about what they are called as you collect them
• Talk about which ingredient to cut up or measure first. Does your child know the names? Can they tell you which to choose?
• Talk about how to prepare fresh ingredients. Do we have our apples with skin on, skin off, seeds in or seeds out?
• If you’re following a recipe, read and follow the steps together. Your local library will have great children’s recipe books that are filled with pictures to help involve young children.
• Talk about where some of the ingredients come from before they found their way into the fridge? Are they grown under the ground or on a plant, or are they from an animal ... which one?

Your child needs simple everyday activities like this one that provides chances to interact, chat and learn together with you.