to experiment with food, after its own success. Annette Rawstrone
reports.
Many of us grew up being told not to play with our food, but a very different approach has been developed at Redcliffe Children's Centre in Bristol. The children are being actively encouraged to investigate all the sensory aspects of food - what it looks like, how it feels, smells and how it tastes.
Rather than following a recipe, the nursery children are given the freedom to experiment with their own food combinations with practitioners observing and supporting them. The focus is mainly on vegetables, fruits and herbs - with raw meat avoided for safety reasons.
This approach been so successful in developing children's confidence and a healthy interest in food that the centre - which has National Teaching School Status - has developed an accredited Level 1 Experimental Cookery course aimed at giving practitioners the skills to start a food project of their own (see box).
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