The children in the Nursery  have been enjoying  interacting with their favourite books . We have been combining their love of books and stories with exploring different tastes and textures using the food items from the stories. We used the stories The Hungry Caterpillar and Handa’s Surprise. Both stories  feature animals/ creatures  and  food.

The children were encouraged to try all the different foods  from each story and use props to  bring the story to life.
We  covered the  outcomes: LIT0-31a I enjoy exploring events and characters in stories and other texts and I use what I learn to invent my own, sharing these with others in imaginative ways.
HWB0-30a Together we enjoy handling, tasting, talking  about and learning about different foods.

During the activity with the story, Handa’s Surprise, the children enjoyed revisiting the story using  animals and food from the house corner. We explored  trying to balance baskets on our head, just like Handa did in the story.