Involving children in cooking skills at an early age helps develop their motor, mental, social and cognitive skills.

There is no doubt that adopting a healthy lifestyle and healthy eating habits with young students is one of the priorities of Lady Bird Nursery, which offers the program “Young Chefs” to teach young children how to make healthy choices by incorporating mathematical and scientific concepts and developing language in an enjoyable culinary experience.

"Preschool students have a great readiness to learn," says Lady Bird nursery chief executive, Monica Valrani. Children love to discover and experiment. ”

Valrani explained that "creating a shopping supermarket" to buy healthy food is a good activity that parents can adopt before actually going to stores or stores, because children grow their knowledge better when using visual aids, and pictures of various foods can be added in this activity.

Cooking is a life skill that must be rooted in children. Young learners can enjoy mixing ingredients, cleaning, pouring, wrapping, oiling, and cutting gingerbreads in different shapes. Preparing healthy, simple snacks at home, such as fruit salad, is an easy and fun way to peel, chop, smell and touch. Also, preparing sandwiches and cutting them into halves or quarters teaches youngsters about fractions and shapes. Emphasis must be placed on safety precautions while working in the kitchen, teaching children the importance of hygiene, and among the many benefits of teaching children cooking since childhood:

Affection and continues

Increasing affection and communication between family members, and the love of joint work, by spending a lot of time for parents with their children in the kitchen, in attempts to teach them cooking methods in an atmosphere full of fun and laughter so that children do not get tired of it, and to facilitate that parents can at first start teaching children how to Preparing simple meals.

culture

Educating children about different cooking cultures helps identify other countries' meals, and increases their general knowledge about different countries.

Self-reliance

Teaching children to cook improves their self-reliance. Have children prepare their school meals, a way for children to feel independent.

Cooking is a life skill that must be rooted in children for its many benefits.