Active Kids Get Cooking

Suggested age

3-4 years

Award - Discovering Drinks

Create a refreshing fruity drink for you and your friends.

Getting started

  • Collect pictures of different drinks and talk about how they can be served, e.g. different glasses, straws, umbrellas.
  • Set up a tasting session of different fruit juices and fruit based drinks, e.g. smoothies.
  • Demonstrate how to make a fruit drink, e.g. juice oranges with a juicer, pop fruit into a blender for a smoothie.
  • Get the children to help you make fruit ice cubes by placing small pieces of fruit in ice cube trays, adding water and freezing. These can be added to drinks as an exciting decoration.

Activity ideas to meet the challenge

  • Make a seasonal juice drink.  You could blend different juices and/ squeeze your own
  • Make a fruity breakfast smoothie
  • Make some attractive, exotic party drinks

Resources on the website to help you teach the challenge

  • 5 A DAY worksheet – looks at the different ways we can buy fruit and veg, e.g. fresh, dried, canned, frozen and juiced (pdf)
  • 5 A DAY Menu Worksheet – asks children to help devise a fruit and veg menu for a day (pdf)
  • 5 A DAY Diary – a fruit and veg diary recording sheet for a week  (pdf)
  • Summer refreshers  (pdf)
  • Smoothies and shakes (pdf)

Links

Food – a fact of life -  Lots of support for teaching about healthy eating and cooking; recipes; photographs of food, equipment and ingredients; videos of cooking skills and recipes.


 

 

 


Active Kids Get Cooking April 2009