Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Physical development -- Building a gingerbread house -- Mud pie mixing -- Kneading bread -- Sowing, growing and gardening -- Making biscuits -- Building a simple oven -- Making fruity jam -- Personal, social and emotional development -- Family cookbook -- Creating your own menu -- Toffee popcorn gift -- Creating a pictorial shopping list -- Create your own sandwich -- Organising a birthday party -- Creating a herb blend -- Communication and language -- Secret message roll -- Going to market -- Little Red Hen puppet theatre

Giant pizza -- Organising a mud work station -- Food from different cultures -- The chef's library -- Mathematics -- Pasta size comparison -- Dishing up -- Microwave biscuits -- Measuring with scales: scones -- Pound cake -- Making potato wedges -- Shortbread shape biscuits -- Breakfast muffin making -- Literacy -- Personalised flapjacks -- Bilingual smoothies -- Sign language recipe cards -- Rhymes and songs about food -- Gingerbread Man storyboard -- Food shopping around the world -- Letter pretzels -- Expressive arts and design -- Sensory kitchen -- Potion making for magic yoghurt

Bread sculpting -- Taste test: juice making -- Texture cards -- Make your own apron -- Kitchen utensil musical -- Understanding the world -- Farm journey -- Cookie swap party -- Bread from different cultures -- Spices around the world -- Harvest around the world -- Foraging trip -- Video-recipe: cupcakes

Not a recipe book of how to produce elaborate, time-consuming meals, but easy-to-follow descriptions of activities related to food, the kitchen and cooking. Children have a natural curiosity towards real life procedures and being involved in cooking and all of its preparation activities has proven to stimulate young minds throughout history. By preparing simple meals together from scratch, children will naturally develop the love of good, healthy food, whilst it can also tackle the issue of fussy eaters, who are far more likely to try something they've prepared themselves. Based on Judit's sound practice as a qualified teacher and baker, having taken part in local and national conferences, she has gathered together a varied collection of activity ideas around cooking and baking from different cultures, with some added simple recipes too.

Grade School

Text in English.