Fun with Food
Sitting and eating together as a family is also a great way to get your children interested in new foods; chances are that if they see you eating and enjoying your meal, it will entice them to try those new foods.
Try turning everyday foods into shapes and animals, such as slicing a bagel and arranging it on a plate to look like a slithering snake or using cookie cutters to cut sandwiches into hearts, stars or dinosaurs.
Shrink family-size recipes into personal-size versions. Children will feel special having their very own bite-size pizza.
Make a face! Use fruit and veggies to spruce up a boring sandwich with eyes, ears and a mouth.
Let your child help you prepare the meal. If they have a hand in making it, they’ll be more inspired to taste it.
Encourage your child to play with their food! They can build a mountain out of their mashed potatoes or a veggie train out of their peas and carrots, and then have fun eating them up!
At our school, we typically spend a few weeks per school year learning about food. During the week of “Guess What’s Cooking,” the children made many fun snacks as well as explored with food including: making their own pretzels, making English muffin pizzas, exploring with real pizza dough and real pizza boxes from a local pizza shop, making a yogurt based veggie dip, and painting with colored whipped cream! To end the week, we invited all of our students’ parents to join their child for a special breakfast.
Sitting and eating together as a family is also a great way to get your children interested in new foods; chances are that if they see you eating and enjoying your meal, it will entice them to try those new foods.
Lauren Baldwin is a proud mother to 2 boys under age three, as well as the owner of The Goddard School located in Marlboro, New Jersey. As a childcare expert for over 11 years and a mother herself, she is committed to providing a safe, happy, and healthy environment where learning is also fun for the children in her preschool.
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