Cooking & healthy food
Clean hands, rainbow food and safe kitchen skills with a grown-up.
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- Lesson 1 · EYFS · 10 min
Washing hands before food
Wash hands the right way before cooking or eating.
Learn: Germs are too small to see. Washing with soap and water for about twenty seconds, the time it takes to sing Happy Birthday twice, helps wash them away.
Try it: Wash your hands while singing Happy Birthday twice.
Check: How long should you wash your hands?
About twenty seconds
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- Lesson 2 · KS1 · 15 min
Eat a rainbow
Explain why we eat different coloured fruit and vegetables.
Learn: Fruit and vegetables of different colours give us different vitamins and fibre. Try to eat lots of colours over the week: red tomatoes, orange carrots, green peas, purple grapes.
Try it: Make a rainbow fruit plate with a grown-up.
Check: Why eat lots of colours of fruit and veg?
Different colours give different vitamins and goodness
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- Lesson 3 · KS2 · 20 min
Safe kitchen skills
Use the bridge and claw grip safely with an adult.
Learn: Knives must only be used with an adult. The bridge hold makes an arch over food with your fingers; the claw tucks your fingertips in. Keep the knife pointing down and away, and always cut on a board.
Try it: With an adult, slice a soft food like a banana using the claw grip.
Check: Why do we tuck our fingertips in?
So the knife cannot cut our fingers
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