BBQ ~ Barbecues and National BBQ Week !

[Ruthierhyme]

Enjoy yourselves this year with BBQ ativities, food and eating !

Beach, Garden, heathland, wherever you set up check when you leave that you have everything with you - inside & eaten and not

National BBQ Week is a corporate collaboration and sponsored campaign please see their website for more details - BBQ week



Some Activities that you can do with the children...

Safety Awareness - Matches, lighters, and other ignition tools used for lighting barbecues could be much more visible to the children during this period ~ so making sure that they know how dangerous they are is vital.

Circle Time :- Introduce Cooking in the garden as a topic and chat about the types of foods that the children have tasted from a BBQ.

When asking them how a BBQ is lit discuss what tools they think can light a fire.
Do they think these implements are safe?
What could happen if they touched them?
Who should light a BBQ - a dragon or an adult?

Collage a Barbie ...
Cut 2 large circles of paper ~ staple them together in one place so that they form a base and lid of the BBQ!
Let the Children cut strips of grey paper and glue on to form the gridle bars.
Use coloured/textured paper ~ precut shapes or magazine images to discuss foods, their tastes & whether the child has tried it before.
Cut out and glue onto the BBQ.

WEATHER & SEASON
You could introduce Australia as an example of reverse weather conditions ... let the children know that when it is snowing in the UK it is very hot & good outdoor BBQ weather in Australia!
When do they think the best time would be to have a BBQ ~ in the rain or sun?
This opens up chances to tlak about eventuality - what would happen if a family had a barbecue in each of those weather conditions ...

• What would happen to the brickettes in they were rained on?
• What precautions could be taken to have a BBQ in the rain ... under shelter.

Summer, Winter, Autumn & Spring - look at the overall temperatures of the seasons and decide together which, in order, are the best times for BBQ'ing outside.

RECIPES For Snack Time
Experiment making different sauces that the children can try by dipping in Bread sticks.

SAUCES

Try liquidising up your own BBQ dips and sauces ....

Fresh tomatoes, Mixed herbs, salt & pepper make a very basic sauce and an ideal starting point for many variations of it .......

Kebabs
Sweet or savoury these are a wonderful way to introduce the children to a huge variety of fruit, vegetables & meats

Cut chunks together and spear them onto long kebab sticks.
Eat the fruit ones straight away & Oven cook/BBQ others that require it!

Personal Favourite .......
Grapes, marshmallows, tinned papaya & pineapple
Served with a melted chocolate/vanilla/milk sauce .. yummmmm

HINTS & TIPS ~ I don't know a great deal about BBQs in general, so if everyone else has some website links for maintaining them, recommendations on your own ones, and of course recipes to use on them ... then please post away .....