A cooking workshop will help your two-year old explore its culinary talent and motor skills
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Doesâu00c2u0080u00c2u0088your tot like to cook? There's one way to find out. This weekend, Jyoti Panjabi of Creative Little Minds will conduct a cooking and baking workshop for two to three year olds.
The Little Chef's workshop will include baking and cooking for kids from the age of two to three years and four to five years. The ingredients, aprons and hats will be provided and the kids will make savoury and sweet cupcakes and modaks. They will do everything on their own except putting the dish in the oven to bake, which is when Panjabi will take over.
"I feel kids don't really end up cooking at home for the fear of fire and equipment. You should watch them play their kitchen games. They imitate what their moms do," shares Panjabi. Through her workshops, she realised that many kids don't care about the outcome and don't always want to taste the dish either.
"Some of them don't like cake for instance, but enjoy the process of mixing the ingredients for the cake or even just doing the icing. When they assemble simple things like Monaco biscuits with cheese and ketchup, I let them grate a big slab of cheese. I make sure I hand-hold them, so that they don't end up hurting themselves with the grater. Even squeezing the ketchup bottle right involves developing their motor skills. Some of them can't differentiate between colours. This helps them understand the concept better," she says.
Panjabi started teaching at Little Palms School at Breach Candy. "In school, a lot of creative activities get missed out on due to curriculum and hence, I decided to start Creative Little Minds,"âu00c2u0080u00c2u0088 she says. The company conducts workshops that are targeted towards making learning fun and creative, by incorporating theme-based activities like role-play and teaching methods, to make sure that young ones will want to learn more and be creative at the same time. "We include art and craft, sensorial play, cooking, music, dance, yoga and storytelling," shares the 27-year-old.
Creative Little Minds did a series called community helpers, in summer, where kids were dressed like firemen, teachers, and doctors, and did role-play to understand the duties associated with each profession. For the firemen, they created a building and fire using foam and colour. They extinguished the fire and the foam melted so that they understood the concept. Panjabi also does play dates where moms meet up and the kids and engage in fun activities.
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