Nursery World - A Unique Child: Nutrition

Providing a range of exciting end-of-day snacks can help keep
children going until dinner. June Graham shares some ideas for sweet and
savoury foods that pack a punch.

Some of our children attend our setting full time and have a long journey ahead of them at the end of the day, so by pick-up time they need a little energy boost to keep them going until dinnertime.

I noticed that several parents arrive with small containers of snacks for their children to eat, but I thought it would be a good idea to make end-of-day snacks available for all the children in our nursery.

Good presentation is essential, as is giving children the freedom - and information - to choose what they would like to eat. So the snacks are presented in a big basket and displayed in clear Cellophane bags, thus ensuring the snacks are packaged hygienically and the children are able to see the contents and choose what they want.

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