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Cooking together
Fruit Skewers
Use a picture recipe to wash, choose and taste fruit. A grown-up makes the skewer and removes the stick before serving.
- Age 2
- 10 min
- Easy
- Small group
- Cooking together
Learning areas
Skills practised
About this activity
Your child helps prepare a fruit skewer by washing the fruit, choosing pieces and watching a grown-up put them on the stick. Then they eat the fruit from a plate, without the stick.
The picture page helps your child follow the steps. At age 2, choosing, touching and talking about food are all valuable ways to learn and take part.
Learning objectives
- Help wash fruit with a grown-up.
- Choose a fruit or a piece of fruit for the recipe.
- Follow the steps by pointing to the pictures or talking about them.
The printable
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What you need
- Printed recipe page
- Ripe banana and soft papaya
- Running water and a sink
- Cutting board and knife for adult use only
- Plate
- Large blunt stick for adult use only
Safety notes
Supervise your child at all times. Check for allergies and dietary needs. The adult must use the knife and stick away from the child and remove the stick before serving; even a blunt stick can cause injury. Serve soft fruit in small pieces suited to your child's chewing ability. Your child should eat while seated and supervised.
How to do it
- Check for allergies and dietary needs before you begin.
- Show your child the four pictures and explain that you will prepare fruit together.
- Help your child wash their hands and the fruit under running water.
- Peel and cut the fruit into small, soft pieces suitable for your child.
- Invite your child to choose pieces and place them on the plate.
- Out of your child's reach, put a few pieces on the blunt stick and show them the result.
- Remove the stick, put the fruit on the plate and invite your child to eat it while seated.
Teaching suggestions
- Point to each picture and say, “Now we'll wash the fruit.”
- Offer two choices and let your child choose by pointing.
- Let your child touch or smell the fruit without pressure to eat it.
- In a group, invite one child at a time to choose a piece.
Variations
Easier
Offer only banana and help your child point to the picture for each step.
More challenging
Invite your child to remember the next step before looking at the picture.
Extension
After snack time, use the pictures to recall the steps together.
Talk about it
- Which fruit would you like to choose?
- What does the fruit feel like?
- What did we do after washing the fruit?
- What was the fruit you tasted like?
What to look for
- Notice whether your child helps wash the fruit with support.
- Notice whether your child chooses a fruit using a gesture, a look or words.
- Watch for your child pointing to a picture or commenting on a recipe step.
Routine chart
Picture talk
Word search