Cooking with Me involves groups of children working together to create recipes, and encourages them to explore other activities, such as painting, dressing up and role play, based on their cooking themes.

The scheme encourages children to cook from an early age, developing key skills outlined in the EYFS framework. Cooking is understood to develop skills such as time, measuring, counting and weighing, as well as introduce them to science by helping them to investigate, predict, experiment and observe. Cooking will require children to read recipe cards, sequence order of photos, introduce new words for foods and encourage opinion, helping to reinforce their language development.

The nursery has received a cookery pack containing 14 recipes cards including further activities to extend the recipe, a set of 10 environmental cards outlining photographs and new vocabulary of key words used in cooking, 8 sets of children’s hats and aprons and a cooking equipment kit, specifically designed for little hands.