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Toast preschool
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Toast!
Put toast on the menu in your preschool, and on the activity list of your Early years play.
Find out together how you like your toast and what making it involves ..
then when ready, serve with fresh fruit & salad vegetables.
Which is your most liked piece of toast?
To help look at preferences and enable opinion, toast 4 pieces of bread to differing degrees of colour.
Display and using a digital / other camera take images to print your own resources from..
For making toast you will need
A toaster and access to an electricity supply.
A solid surface area - preferably in view for the children, but with enough space for supervision / intervention against harm.
Round ended knives
Serving plates
Cutting boards
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 Toast toppers:
Use these food suggestions to add variety to the serving of your toast ..
 Chocolate Spread
Butter
Margarine
Honey
Syrup
Jam
Lemon curd
Cheese - sliced and grated
Marmalade
Chutney
Peanut butter
Marmite
Sliced banana
Spaghetti
Spaghetti hoops
Sphagetti shapes
Beans
Serve with side salad vegetables and fresh fruit - mandarine segments, apple slices, banana, carrot and cucumer ..
For a more substantial meal, add to a serving of couscous:
For more information - wikipedia article couscous, gluten free couscous, quinoa, savoury rice. |
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Use a toastie maker for an alternative to toasted bread
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and breads !
There is a very diverse selection of breads available - choose ones that interest, are different to the usual and ones that are familiar.
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A few types of bread that serve very nicely with sliced apple, other fruits and salad vegetables:
Raisin bread - google image search
Cinnamon and nut
Apple and sultanna
Cherry and almond
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This activities learning involves: physically & emotional development:
to put in, start/begin cooking, take out, master a knife, spread, cut, eat and enjoy..
Extend the activities to sandwich making and other dough based cooking.
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Activity awareness:
Please include how you use and store toasters, sandwich makers and other heat equipment in your risk assessments.
Note medical and dietary needs before offering spreads and toppings to the Children.
Nuts, allergies, sensitivities, cultural considerations, vegan, vegetarian, gluten free and other diets.
Left handed butter knives. Knives that help with grip - broad chunky handles.
Honey is a food source recommended for Children over the age of 12 months.
Source: Giving honey to babies over the age of one CKS.nhs.uk
Use knives safely - build fine motor skills and dexterity - Fine motor skills from wikipedia
How to use a knife to spread or cut bread with Children:
- Go slowly with everyone unfamiliar with using a knife.
- Where necessary remind others who are more comfortable with the procedure that knives are sharp and care needs to be taken.
- Where appropriate help show how to hold and angle the knife to spread rather than cut.
- Help all the children to be aware of where both their hands and fingers are and how they move them ...
- Explain that knives can be sharp and will cut skin and how fingers and hands must always be kept a safe distance away from the knife's sharp cutting edge.
- Show them how a knife can be held upside down and that the wrong side will make it hard to spread, handle and cut.
- Pulling and pushing a knife forwards and backwards helps to spread - chopping with pressure in a downward motion cuts.
- Keywords: Blade, handle, serations, cut - down, pressure, spread - smoothly, slice, bread, crust, a whole, piece, half and quater.
- If required, explain that although the spread looks nice on the knife it is dangerous to lick or put a knife into a mouth - that spreading will finish soon and the bread/food can all be en eaten in one go ..
Nutritional values:
Breads - Nutrition from Fabflour.co.uk
Gluten free bread - chat with parents and professinals on the types of breads to use for group inclusion.
Differentiate for younger Children and where disability may restrict dexterity - Use squeezy bottles for adding toppings to bread and toast.
CREDITS
4 slices of cooked bread image © iStock Stuart Burford
Selection of breads image © iStock Viktor Fischer
All other images are copyright of Silkysteps.com
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