Layered fruit yoghurt pots

Competence cornerstone

Play a video or say a 5-4-3-2-1 countdown and tell the children that they are going to learn what they need to do before they cook to ensure the food they make is safe to eat (how to prepare for cooking).

Discuss any ideas/thoughts from the children. Share the steps with the children on board/flipchart:

5 – Tie back long hair
4 – Roll up sleeves
3 – Put on apron
2 – Wash hands
1 – Ready to cook!

Point to the step (starting with 5) as you model how to do this and explain why it is necessary. Encourage children to participate by asking questions like:

• Why do we have to make sure that no hair gets in the food we are cooking?
• What’s the point of rolling up sleeves? What could be on them that we don’t want in food?
• Who knows what this (apron) is called? Who has seen one before?

Practise a chant for 1: Ready to cook! Maybe have a piece of music to accompany the countdown and/ or ‘official’ class moves for each step.