Food 🍲

Use JIT Infant Toolkit “Mix” tab to create a healthy recipe book. You could use photos or get the children to draw their own pictures.

sk students to fill their own shopping basket with food items using the shopping basket template (see link below) in JIT Infant Toolkit “Paint”.

To extend the activity, give students a prewritten shopping list to read and then draw.

Tell children that they need to create a shopping list for sandwich ingredients. Firstly, we need to complete a survey to find out which sandwiches people would choose, so we can buy the right amount of sandwich fillings, put the answers/data in the Pictogram tool found in jit.

se JIT Infant Toolkit “Animate” tool to enhance the classic activity of growing a bean by creating an animated bean diary. Once made, get the children to create a voice-over by using the microphone feature. (You must be using a device that has either an in-built microphone or a microphone attached).

Cookit! is an interactive digital cookbook filled with simple recipes.

Use Cookit! to explore cooking and to create and share their own recipes.

Talk about your favourite foods with this template within ‘BusyThings’ ‘My Favourite Meal' Draw and write about your favourite meal. It can be breakfast, lunch, dinner or tea. Discussion points: Is it healthy? Do you have something from each food group? What do you like to drink with it?

Use this graph project to construct a pictogram of students preferences with this interactive digital creation tool within ‘BusyThings’ Discussion points: How many people like each item? Which food item is the most popular? Which item is the least popular? What proportion of people like each item?

Use this oven-simulator to experiment with over- and undercooking foods, and seeing the result, without the dangers or waste of using a real oven with this interactive digital creation tool within ‘BusyThings. Set the temperature and the time and click 'Cook it' to start. When it has finished cooking, touch 'Eat it' and see what the monster's reaction is!

Explore what people eat for Ramadan Eid al-Fitr. Choose and arrange some food for the feast with this interactive digital creation tool within ‘BusyThings.

Make your own monster banana cupcakes by following this simple recipe. This recipe sheet will guide you through the processes of preparing and baking your own food. with this printable creation tool within ‘BusyThings

Make your own Pinkman cupcakes by following this simple recipe.

This recipe sheet will guide you through the processes of preparing and baking your own food. with this printable creation tool within ‘BusyThings’.

Make various types of food with this food design template found within ‘BusyThings

Choose a lollipop, pizza, sandwich or pancake and add your own toppings!

Make your own Redman pizzas by following this simple recipe.

This recipe sheet will guide you through the processes of preparing and baking your own food. with this printable creation tool within ‘BusyThings’.

Within the Resource Widgit you can find pre-made resources to support stories relating to food ‘This Is The Bear And The Picnic Lunch’ ‘Handa's Surprise’ and ‘The Tiger Who Came to Tea’. Each story has a fully comprehensive pack with a variety of differentiated activities, which include the story, sequencing activities, worksheets, crosswords, matching activities, drawing, storyboard and play-script, you can also find a whole unit on ‘Healthy Eating’.