Healthy eating

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HEALTHY EATING

Our wee people can need some encouragement to eat a healthy varied diet.

Here are some ideas:

  • Be a good role model.
  • Get them involved in planning the weekly menu and then help with the shopping list.
  • Let them get involved in the preparation of meals and snacks.

Here is an alternative to a dough base pizza,  as I know flour is difficult to access !!

HOMEMADE TORTILLA PIZZA WITH VEGGIE FACES

INGREDIENTS

  1.  Tortilla
  2.  Passata or tomato ketchup
  3. Cheese
  4.  Vegetables of choice

METHOD

  1. Smooth the tomato sauce over the tortilla with a spoon
  2. Scatter with cheese
  3. Start making faces                                                                                                                          Choose whatever vegetables (or fruit) your children are willing to try

Courgette rounds make great eyes or cheeks, halved courgette rounds can be used                  for ears and spiralised courgette for hair. Strips of pepper are good for eyebrows and             mouths while olives and halved cherry tomatoes make great eyes or earrings.                             Sweetcorn can be used for teeth or freckles.                 Let their imagination go wild !!!

4. Place in the oven at 200 degrees for 10 minutes.

 

ENJOY AND HAVE FUN AND BE HEALTHY

Sensory Bottles

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Sensory Bottles

Resources: 

  • Plastic bottle
  • Food colouring
  • Any materials you may find useful – Glitter, sequences, beads, rice, pasta, lego, cut up straws, cotton balls
  • Sellotape
  1. Fill an empty water bottle 1/3 full with water
  2. Add a few drops of food colouring
  3. Once the food colouring has spread through the water, fill the rest of the bottle up with with olive oil/vegetable oil
  4. Add glitter, sequences, beads, rice, pasta, lego, cut up straws, cotton balls. Any material you wish to use to make your sensory bottle your own!
  5. Remember to sellotape the bottle lid onto the bottle so that it doesn’t spill and ruin your creation!

OLYMPIC MATCH AND SORT

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OLYMPIC FLAG LEGO MATCH AND SORT

 

Match and sort lego onto the coloured rings of the Olympic flag.

You could use paper plates,  paper or card and colour and sort to mirror the Olympic flag.

It doesn’t have to be lego.  You could use any other toy or safe household items.

Talk about colours and shapes.

Let the child decide how the activity develops.

HAVE FUN

Bubble Painting

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Resources:

  • Bowl or tray
  • Washing up liquid
  • Water
  • Paint
  • Drink straw
  • Paper

Follow these steps:

  1. Put a squirt of paint into the bowl/tray. Add a few drops of washing up liquid.
  2. Add some water to make it runny consistency to blow bubbles.
  3. Using the drinking straw, blow into the paint mixture to create the lot of bubbles so they rise above the bowl
  4. Place the paper lightly on top of the bubbles until they stop popping
  5. Carefully lift the paper so not to smudge the paint
  6. The popped bubbles will have left a complex pattern of  interlinking circles.
  7. Leave to dry.
  8. An adult could help you make another creation by cutting your work into a shape -e.g. butterfly, flower, car, football