21/11/2025
🍽️ Kitchen Adventures at Lena’s Little Learners! 👩🍳✨
This week we turned our classroom into a busy little kitchen, full of exploring hands and curious minds!
The kids learned about cutlery and kitchen utensils, matched real objects to pictures, and sorted everything by colour and shape — spoons, cups, plates, tiny forks and even knifes... all the fun things that make cooking magic happen! 🥄🌈
For our creative activity, we looked at different kinds of plates and made our own “meals.”
The children prepared a very special imaginary dish — chicken curry🍛
We used rice for the base and little pieces of playdough as chicken. Delicious creativity!
During sensory play, we stepped into a 'hot, busy kitchen'🔥
Kids mixed pasta, rice, lentils and semolina, sifted, scooped, separated and combined ingredients to create their own signature dishes.
So much pouring, stirring, shaking and experimenting — all amazing for:
✨ Fine motor skills
✨ Sensory development
✨ Vocabulary growth
✨ Imagination and confidence
Hands-on kitchen play teaches kids real-life skills in the most fun and safe way!
💡 Want to keep the kitchen magic going at home? Try these:
1️⃣ Pasta Sorting Chef– use different shapes of pasta and let your child sort by size, shape or colour (you can dye pasta in advance!).
2️⃣ Make-a-Meal Plate – give your child a paper plate and let them “cook” using playdough, cotton pads, pompoms or cut-out pictures of food.
3️⃣ Sink or Float: Food Edition – test different kitchen items (spoon, pasta, apple slice, cork) and guess which ones will float. Great little science moment!
Our little chefs did an amazing job — cooking, creating and discovering the world through play 🔪🧡