Nursery World - A Unique Child: Get cooking- soup

Butternut squash and sweet potato soup served with herby wholemeal rolls

This nutritious tea-time dish is very popular with our children and is one that they help to prepare. Children learn through hands-on exploration and we try to make our cookery lessons as practical as possible, so enabling children to have input into their own meals. This gives them a sense of pride, confidence and self-esteem. It also helps to encourage the more fussy eaters, who will invariably eat what they have helped to produce.

We involve the children in the whole process of herb-growing - planting, watching them grow, watering, picking the herbs. We extend this by getting the children to smell the different types of herbs and learn the names. To help, we provide large laminated name labels on sticks that the children can place beside the growing herbs.

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