Food Education

The Toddler Cooking Project: The Blender Malfunction Adventure!

This week, I planned to make smoothies with the children to talk about healthy habits since half of our group has been sick in the last few weeks. Many toddlers actually told me they drank smoothies with mommy and daddy which was a very nice surprise. It all started with an intense session of hand… Continue reading The Toddler Cooking Project: The Blender Malfunction Adventure!

Recipes

The Toddler Cooking Project: Pumpkin Oatmeal Muffins

I have two big passions in life: early childhood education and cooking. This year, as I came back to the preschool world, I decided to join both interests. I made it a personal goal to teach our class of toddlers about healthy food habits. I am using three main techniques (or activities): an inviting pretend… Continue reading The Toddler Cooking Project: Pumpkin Oatmeal Muffins

Food Education

Food Experiments with Little Munchkins

For the last few weeks, I have been working at a preschool summer camp. After 3 weeks talking about the Olympic Games (a subject very hard to follow, I must say), we decided to talk about science. It was time to touch, test, observe and learn about the different things surrounding us. Although we had… Continue reading Food Experiments with Little Munchkins