This curriculum topic teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to select, identify and prepare foods for a picnic including sandwiches and fruit juice drinks by compiling shopping lists for a class outing. The class can follow sets of instructions explaining how to make sandwiches with different fillings.

Select, identify and prepare different types of foods for a picnic including sandwiches and fruit juice drinks by compiling shopping lists for a class outing

Lesson One : What Food

Practise sorting a selection of different foods that can be eaten on a family summer holiday picnic into matching groups using a range of criteria

Lesson Two : Salad Vegetables

Identify and describe the taste, shape and appearance of different foods that are suitable to use when making salad meals

Lesson Three : Sandwich Fillings

Identify and describe the taste, shape and appearance of some of the different fillings that can be added to sandwiches taken on a summer picnic

Lesson Four : Fruit Juices

Explore how to identify and describe the taste and appearance of some of the different drinks that could be taken on a picnic during the summer season of the year

Lesson Five : Picnic Lists

Investigate how to select and record lists of the different types of food and equipment that are needed for a family summer picnic

Lesson Six : Class Picnic

Practise selecting and preparing some different foods to get ready for a summer picnic when following matching sets of instructions

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