This document discusses using creative food activities in early childhood education. It explains that many traditional food activities are led entirely by the teacher without child input. Creative food activities can engage all the children's senses and help them learn new concepts. Some ways food activities aid learning are helping children describe things, experience different shapes and sizes, learn about taste, observe changes of state, develop language skills, think more logically, and understand that changes in form don't alter identity. The document encourages using songs, rhymes, fingerplays and stories to engage children in group creative activities.

1. CREATIVE ACTIVITIES IN
OTHER PRE- SCHOOL
CURRICULUM AREAS
CHAPTER 8

2. • Lesson 3
Foods:
A creative
Approach

3. •Activities involving foods are
included in most programs for three-
to five-year-old children. However,
many of the food type activities are
under the complete direction of the
teacher. The children sit and watch
the teacher do the work. Food
activities that do not include misuse
of the children‘s input are not very
creative.

4. •The use of food in a classroom can
be one of the most creative parts of
the program. Food is a part of each
child’s experience. All of their senses
are used in activities involving food.

5. Five ways in which
food activities help
children understand
new concepts

6. Children learn to
describe things

7. Children experience
many shapes, sizes, and
colors. The child thus
learns to name shapes,
compare sizes and

8. Children learn
about taste

9. •Children find out how heating
or mixing change taste.
Children also learn that a
change in appearance of
some foods does not mean
that the foods taste any
different.

11. As they did on
sensing, children
observe that
foods change
from liquids to
solids and from
solids to liquids.

12. Children learn
to Express
themselves

13. As a result• Language develops as a result of
food experiences.
• They learn a more complete
meaning of terms like liquid and
solid, freezing and boiling, smelly
and odorless.

14. •Children think more
logically

15. Growth
.
Growth in a more logical
view of the world takes
place in children who have
creative food experiences

16. Some processes can
be reverted

17. A change in place does
not mean a change in
identity

18. Food can be
classified in many
ways

19. Let’s take these
pictures as an
example.

20. • They are different kinds
but
• they are all animal
species

21. •Pouring a liquid from a
glass of one shape

22. •They have the same volume
capacity but different in
length and width

23. Lesson 4
Songs, rhymes,
fingerplays, and stories for
Creative Activities

24. • The following activities are
suggestive, not prescriptive.
• It is necessary that during a big
group experience, all children
should participate either
actively or by observing.