One of my favorite things in my Montessori Toddler classroom is watching the children prepare their own snack everyday.
Food preparation activities for young children, especially between the ages of 0-3 years, are not only fun to do and observe, but they are also so important for a young child's development.
Such activities allow a child to feel a sense of belonging to their community, support the development of their coordinated movements, and help a child learn to care for themselves. Additionally, through food preparation activities, a child is able to refine their senses, which is so important since they learn through their experiences which are absorbed through their senses at this young age.
Often, I see many children playing at home or in other classroom environments using kitchen sets and fake food. While this may be fun, it removes so many of the important aspects that cooking with real food offers. Giving a child the opportunity to understand and engage in the process of preparing a meal is so beneficial. Cooking with real food allows a child to understand where food comes from. For instance, when a child squeezes oranges to make juice, they not only feel the different textures of the fruit, smell the orange, and see the juice come out, but they also get to reap the benefits of their hard work, as they enjoy a fresh glass of orange juice!
Sensorial education helps a child understand food and where it comes from. Additionally, these activities are opportunities for language development (names of the food, explanation about the different parts of the food, colors, smells, and the instruments we use to work with the food, etc.), and mathematics can also be incorporated!
Through this blog, I hope to share with you some of the recipes we use in my classroom. These can be fun to duplicate at home as well!
Also, Monti Kids' level 2 kit includes a dining set that can be your child's first place setting, and their level 7 kit has the perfect baking set!
Food preparation activities for young children, especially between the ages of 0-3 years, are not only fun to do and observe, but they are also so important for a young child's development.
Such activities allow a child to feel a sense of belonging to their community, support the development of their coordinated movements, and help a child learn to care for themselves. Additionally, through food preparation activities, a child is able to refine their senses, which is so important since they learn through their experiences which are absorbed through their senses at this young age.
Often, I see many children playing at home or in other classroom environments using kitchen sets and fake food. While this may be fun, it removes so many of the important aspects that cooking with real food offers. Giving a child the opportunity to understand and engage in the process of preparing a meal is so beneficial. Cooking with real food allows a child to understand where food comes from. For instance, when a child squeezes oranges to make juice, they not only feel the different textures of the fruit, smell the orange, and see the juice come out, but they also get to reap the benefits of their hard work, as they enjoy a fresh glass of orange juice!
Sensorial education helps a child understand food and where it comes from. Additionally, these activities are opportunities for language development (names of the food, explanation about the different parts of the food, colors, smells, and the instruments we use to work with the food, etc.), and mathematics can also be incorporated!
Through this blog, I hope to share with you some of the recipes we use in my classroom. These can be fun to duplicate at home as well!
Also, Monti Kids' level 2 kit includes a dining set that can be your child's first place setting, and their level 7 kit has the perfect baking set!
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