Encouraging children to cook task

 

1) The Funky lunch book by Mark Northeast is a great example of encouraging children to enjoy making food. They can prepare cook foods in a fun way by creating lots of wacky designs. The book has nice large and clear examples of the food, presented in an exciting way. The text is easy to digest and clear on the page with a limited color pallet per page. Large verity of themes is also present so generating stories for each piece of food should be easy. The age range appears to be 4-8 due to the illustrations and format.

 

2) Garden superhero by Mihaela Lica Butler tales presents vegetables in a fun exciting way and encourages children for healthy eating. The pages have large illustrations in monochrome colors. This encourages the children to engage even more with the book by coloring in the illustrations. The book has a lot of book texts and the pages are not as engaging, for this reason the age range might be aimed a little higher then “The funky lunch book”

 

B)

1) Encouraging children to cook with cooking themed birthday parties, children can cook/make food with the help of an adult or supervisor and create an arrange of fun food to eat together.

2) Rising chefs cooking club/classes have an arrange of tasks and activates held to encourage children to cook/make food such as creating story time snacks that are based on food they are reading about, for example if the book was James and the giant peach the snack of choice would be peaches and peach related cooking activates.

 

 

3) Base fairy tails around healthy foods that will encourage children to enjoy them, for example green beans being magic beans. A well known example would green giant sweet corn advert. This encourages children to be like their favorite characters/stories/ fantasy’s.