Playing with kitchen equipment is an excellent way to stimulate young children's knowledge of food preparation while developing fine motor skills. It also enables them to label familiar objects and learn about the various uses that can be made of them. Use the Birth to Three Matters framework to guide your plannning and see how the simplest resources are the most effective in engaging children's attention and interest.
Going back to basics is an excellent way of helping young children gain the range of life skills that we want them to have. But for most parents and early years practitioners it is all too easy to ignore practical tools that we use everyday. Instead, it seems simpler to buy all sorts of plastic toys that mimic real utensils.
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