Coco's was born out of the need to address the lack of cookery experiences available to children and young people
today. I wanted to
create a platform for children to be able to learn about food in a fun and safe
way through a mixture of practical cookery and themed activities in order to
develop a life-long and healthy passion for good food.
Having run Glapthorn School’s successful cookery club over the 18 months, I am hoping to offer tailored cookery sessions to children aged 5-18 within the Oundle area. I specifically intend Coco's to focus on teaching children 'proper cooking' not just baking cakes and biscuits, but learning essential kitchen skills from scratch such as making different types of pastry, cutting up vegetables safely and preparing simple family meals that can be cooked with you at home. If you are interested in finding out more, please contact me directly for further details of the workshops coming up in 2014.
I strongly believe that inspiring passion about food from a young age is the answer to many of the eating problems that we are experiencing nowadays. As well as encouraging a healthy relationship with food, there are a whole range of additional benefits to cooking with children.
Having run Glapthorn School’s successful cookery club over the 18 months, I am hoping to offer tailored cookery sessions to children aged 5-18 within the Oundle area. I specifically intend Coco's to focus on teaching children 'proper cooking' not just baking cakes and biscuits, but learning essential kitchen skills from scratch such as making different types of pastry, cutting up vegetables safely and preparing simple family meals that can be cooked with you at home. If you are interested in finding out more, please contact me directly for further details of the workshops coming up in 2014.
I strongly believe that inspiring passion about food from a young age is the answer to many of the eating problems that we are experiencing nowadays. As well as encouraging a healthy relationship with food, there are a whole range of additional benefits to cooking with children.
It provides practical experience for many core literacy and numeracy skills such as reading, following directions, understanding sequences, weighing, counting, adding and measuring. Doing even small tasks in the kitchen helps your child to develop fine motor skills & hand eye coordination. All children love to show you what they can do and even making something small will give them a big sense of achievement, especially if the whole family tucks in and praises them!
Spending time in the kitchen and cooking new recipes also helps children to develop a positive connection to all different types of foods including fruits and vegetables. Children will learn the basic cooking skills that they can use for the rest of their lives. Teaching children about food and how to cook and eat healthily greatly increases their chances of becoming nutritionally aware adults. To me, the link between the disappearance of cookery from the national curriculum and the biggest obesity crisis in history, is obvious.
To find out more about hosting a children's cookery birthday party, please go to the Birthday Parties menu which can be found in the drop-down menu under the 'More' tab. To find out more about the workshops available, select 'Cookery Workshops' from the drop-down menu.
Spending time in the kitchen and cooking new recipes also helps children to develop a positive connection to all different types of foods including fruits and vegetables. Children will learn the basic cooking skills that they can use for the rest of their lives. Teaching children about food and how to cook and eat healthily greatly increases their chances of becoming nutritionally aware adults. To me, the link between the disappearance of cookery from the national curriculum and the biggest obesity crisis in history, is obvious.
To find out more about hosting a children's cookery birthday party, please go to the Birthday Parties menu which can be found in the drop-down menu under the 'More' tab. To find out more about the workshops available, select 'Cookery Workshops' from the drop-down menu.
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