We’re buzzing about the start of the safe return of children’s activities. Participating in organised activities offers families many health and wellbeing benefits, whilst also supporting the social, emotional, physical and mental development of your child. We have all missed our favourite activities during lockdown. It’s only natural that you might feel a little nervous getting out and about, or a bit unsure of which activities might be best for your child at this time. To give you a little inspiration, we’ve put together some expert advice to give you some more information about why these activities are great for you and your child.

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Cookery Skills for Life

Encouraging independence and helping your child with things they are unable to do is so important to their mental health, giving them the praise after making a cake or making a sandwich is so important.  Even if it goes wrong it doesn’t matter just give them the encouragement that they need to carry on, it will increase their confidence in so many ways.  

Fine Motor Skills, Co-ordination & Sensory Development - Letting your toddler mix, stir and sprinkle the sprinkles on the cakes, even putting the icing on and having a go at stamping out the cookies all helps to develop their fine motor skills and co-ordination without them even realising it! 

Language & Literacy - Following a recipe whether it’s them reading it or just following instructions about what to put in next and learning that there is a certain order to making something.

Maths - This is a great practical way for your younger children to learn their numbers, increase confidence in counting and working out if they need more or less of an ingredient.

Science - How does it all come together? What happens when we put these ingredients together?  Why do our cakes rise?  Cooking is basically one yummy science experiment, what is not to like!

Life Skills - Life skills learning all of the above are so important to help your child develop and not only are they learning about science, language, literacy and developing their math skills. They are learning how to make food from raw ingredients. 

Mental Health - Encouraging independence and helping your child with things they are unable to do is so important to their mental health, giving them the praise after making a cake or making a sandwich is so important, even if it goes wrong, it doesn’t matter give them the encouragement that they need to carry on, it will increase their confidence in so many ways. 

TOP BENEFITS

Learning life long skills to develop independence in the kitchen.

Develops their creativity, literacy & mathematical skills.

An opportunity to explore different foods and textures and learning what happens when we put them together in a certain way.

Three Bears Cookery

Three Bears Cookery Club is a multi-award-winning children’s cookery school. Our cookery clubs support the cooking and nutrition curriculum in EYFS, KS1 & KS2. We work with primary schools & nurseries giving children the opportunity to learn how to cook in a fun and novel way.  As well as our primary school and nursery clubs we also run, online cookery classes, holiday workshops and birthday parties.

In November we launched our monthly baking subscription box. Each month you will receive 3 recipes, 3 journal cards, dry ingredients for one recipe, activity booklet and access to our private facebook group where you can bake along with us.

There is never a dull moment here at Three Bears Cookery Club so do come along and join in the yummy fun!

Visit our website threebearscookeryclub.com for more information.

HOW WE ARE SAFE

All of our teachers have completed the Covid infection control course and we follow our detailed risk assessments.  High standards of hygiene are in place throughout the clubs and we maintain the recommended social distancing.  In schools we wear a face shield and work in the schools bubbles.  Sharing of equipment is kept to household bubbles and school bubbles only, no sharing of equipment is allowed outside of these bubbles.

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