Sketchbook Theater of Curry and Rice

Let’s learn about ingredients and the cooking process! Here are ideas for a sketchbook theater about curry rice.

Many children love curry rice, right? When covering curry rice in food education, why not create a sketchbook theater that can also be used as an introduction? You’ll need a sketchbook, illustrations, glue or double-sided tape, scissors, and so on.

With curry, it seems like a great opportunity to learn what ingredients are used and what steps are involved in making it!

Playing donut shop

Learn while you play! Here are some ideas for playing donut shop.

Playing store is a great opportunity for children to enjoy themselves while learning knowledge and habits related to food.

By having fun and developing an interest in food through play, and by dividing roles during play, children can also learn the importance of communication and cooperation with others.

Items to prepare include chopsticks, spoons, vinyl tape, clothespins, milk cartons, packing tape, origami paper, and envelopes.

Give it a try!

Lion apron theater

Make it with felt! Here are some ideas for a lion-themed apron theater.

An apron theater is a puppet show where the apron serves as the stage, and you perform by taking out or sticking on puppets and props.

This time, let’s create a nutrition-themed apron theater featuring a lion.

Using sticker felt and fabric adhesive makes it easy to complete, but if you’re skilled at crafts, you can finish it by hand-sewing or using a sewing machine.

A lion with a big open mouth gobbling up food is sure to become a good friend to the children.

Let’s look at the insides of fruits & fruit punch

Fun from age 1! Let’s take a look at the “tummies” of fruits and share fruit punch ideas.

Calling the cross-sections you see when you cut fruit their “tummies” is such a cute expression, isn’t it? This time, let’s make fruit punch while cutting the fruit right in front of the children.

By actually seeing the cross-sections, kids can connect the shapes of the fruits they regularly eat with the complete images of fruits they see in illustrations.

Try incorporating this unique, hands-on food education activity!

Paper puppet show of Rock-Paper-Scissors with roasted sweet potatoes

Recommended for autumn! Here are some ideas for a paper puppet show of “Yakiimo Goo-Choki-Pa.” The traditional children’s song “Yakiimo Goo-Choki-Pa,” long loved as a hand-play activity, uses rock, scissors, and paper hand shapes to pretend to make and eat roasted sweet potatoes.

This time, let’s try a paper puppet show.

A paper puppet show (peep-show style) is a type of paper doll theater made by drawing different illustrations on two sheets of paper, sandwiching a chopstick or popsicle stick between them, and gluing them together.

It’s fun because you can change the illustration with a simple flip.

Sweets made with paper cups

Made with sweet potatoes! Here are some dessert ideas using paper cups.

Many preschools and kindergartens may incorporate cooking into food education, right? This time, let’s try making steamed sweet potato cupcakes in paper cups.

The children are using knives to further cut the sweet potatoes into smaller pieces after they’ve been sliced into rounds.

It’s best for teachers or guardians to watch closely and have the kids try in small groups.

After mixing the batter, use a spoon to pour it into the paper cups.

Be sure to capture the children’s focused expressions as they work carefully.

The moment they take a bite of something they made themselves, they look proud and delighted!

Sketchbook Theater of Pancakes

[Sketchbook Theater] Pancakes [How to Make / Food Education / Childcare]

Fun food education! Here are some ideas for a hotcake (pancake) sketchbook theater.

A sketchbook theater is a handmade audiovisual teaching tool where you flip through a sketchbook and unfold a story in time with a narrative or song.

Adding quiz segments along the way can help capture children’s interest.

This time, let’s complete the sketchbook theater by attaching illustrations of the ingredients and utensils used to make hotcakes.

It can also be used as an introduction before the actual activity of making hotcakes.

Making miso soup

Making Miso with Kids: Exciting and Fun

Make your own miso with a miso-making kit! Here are some ideas for making miso soup.

Many children know about miso as a seasoning, but even many adults don’t know how it’s made.

This time, let’s try making miso together with kids.

Kits are available for purchase, making it easy to give it a try.

Since fermentation takes over three months, it’s a great chance to learn the value of ingredients.

It would be lovely to make miso soup with the finished miso, too.

Give it a try and incorporate it into your routine!

Dietary education materials for preventing tooth decay

Easy-to-make food education material (cavity prevention)

Let’s learn with a paper puppet show! Here are some ideas for educational materials on nutrition to prevent cavities.

We want to build the habit of brushing teeth after meals, right? This paper puppet show focuses on cavity prevention and also introduces foods that help build strong teeth.

The instructions are simple and easy to understand, so why not incorporate it into your activities? Using illustrations will make it easier for children to understand.

What you’ll need: illustrations, wooden chopsticks, tape, and nonwoven fabric if necessary.

Let’s grow vegetables and eat them

First Steps in Food Education: Let’s Grow and Eat Vegetables Together ♪ — Bok Choy and Spinach — (Nursery and Kindergarten)

Let’s experience nurturing life! Here are some ideas for growing and eating vegetables.

Some children may have only ever seen vegetables at supermarkets or other stores.

By carefully growing vegetables together with teachers, guardians, and friends, let’s learn the importance of life.

As children care for the plants every day and witness the vegetables growing little by little, they will gain a renewed appreciation for the value of food.

The sense of accomplishment and joy when they finally eat the vegetables they grew themselves will surely become an unforgettable moment.