Educate children through direct experiences | Part 15

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Direct experiences allow the acquisition of skills that promote creative thinking, incorporating new knowledge through playful activities.

These experiences strengthen and provide an enrichment to learning, where its mission is participation and training in the development, research and experimentation of the environment that surrounds them.

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Direct experience with cooking workshops for children.

It gives children the opportunity to enjoy and feel at ease while they can participate and learn from healthy recipes, which will provide great benefits, turning children into great chefs.

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This experience allows children to investigate the elements that will be used, the different ingredients, the cooking techniques, the preparation of different recipes and enjoy a shared moment.

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Objectives of the direct experience with the cooking workshop.

• Being able to give children a sense of freedom and independence.
• Allow the knowledge and organization of children.
• Promote a change in eating habits.
• Create and promote hygiene habits such as: washing hands and cleaning food.

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Function of the educator, for the induction of children to the children's kitchen workshop.

The educator must develop, through the kitchen, a learning of different strategies based on diversity.

Your objective with the children, is that they know the importance of the activity and how this helps them to be much more autonomous.

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So that everything goes as expected, the educator must guide the children through a preliminary introduction, explaining that to learn to develop in the kitchen it is necessary to learn to enjoy: the flavors, the textures and the smells.

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Learning and fun activities in the children's kitchen workshop.

Children have the opportunity to observe and participate in the preparation of the recipes of their choice. This is a structuring activity of cognitive abilities, indispensable in development.

Cooking activities to execute:

Fruit salad. Based on a healthy diet and the creation of delicious dishes, fruits provide essential vitamins. Children always love to try new and eye-catching things, and it will be fun to be able to experiment with the decoration of the dishes that will be served.

Children learn to prepare a variety of delicious drinks. The passion for cooking increases and creativity overflows, making fruit skewers and creating a variety of presentations.

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Vegetable and vegetable salad. When preparing these salads, children will realize how to eat healthy, incorporating this type of food in their menus.

This activity will achieve in this way that children know and experience the elements provided by nature, fundamental to develop growth.

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Desserts. The world of desserts is undoubtedly the one that most appeals to children, so a space must be opened for their creation, where they can experiment and taste.

For the sweets, children will be given recipes that contain fruit to incorporate into their preparation. The kitchen is full of much to discover and it is necessary to learn to maintain levels to prepare each dish.

Recommendations.The cooking workshops should include experienced chefs with children, the classes should last around two (02) to three (03) hours and it is enough time to learn the necessary, with a very varied menu, which should include different recipes funny.

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Activities in the classroom after the cooking workshop for children.

The educator should ask the children to express what they like about the cooking activity and thus corroborate that the direct experiences are beneficial for their development.

Example of questions.

What do you like about the kitchen?
What was the favorite dish?
Have the vegetables been pleasing?
In what way can we eat healthier?

To complement the class, students will be asked to make an individual presentation of the experience, explaining that they learned about it.

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Greetings educators and motivators of education.