Sensory Role Play
The babies have been extra keen on role play in the home corner so we decided to enhance this using real vegetables, this was a great way to explore and discuss healthy eating, The babies enjoyed mixing in the sauce pans and pretending to cook their vegetables. To extend this we parboiled the vegetables and the babies were given the opportunity to explore these within their play, We used potato mashers and pestle and mortars to mash and crush the vegetables and we used saucepans to pretend we were making a vegetable soup. The babies enjoyed the texture of the different vegetables and even got to have a little taste. They approved of their cooking skills.