Nursery World - Stir crazy

With a few safe kitchen utensils you can cook up a creative storm. Jean Evans has just the recipe Children are often provided with scaled-down kitchen tools and gadgets to enhance their play, but they will be quite safe with the real thing as long as you check first for sharp edges and demonstrate how to handle objects correctly. Exploring these adult resources will make them feel grown up and encourage their investigative skills.

Children are often provided with scaled-down kitchen tools and gadgets to enhance their play, but they will be quite safe with the real thing as long as you check first for sharp edges and demonstrate how to handle objects correctly. Exploring these adult resources will make them feel grown up and encourage their investigative skills.

Collect a wide range of kitchen utensils and check to ensure that they are safe for the children to handle. Include a least one of the following:

* Colanders * Flour or sugar shakers * Funnels * Graters * Jugs * Measuring spoons and scoops * Pastry cutters * Peelers * Rolling pins * Serving spoons and ladles * Sieves * Slotted spoons * Tongs * Whisks * Less common items such as egg slicers, garlic presses, potato mashers, nut crackers, hand mincers, citrus squeezers, ice-cream scoops

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