Winter Vegetables!
School Holiday Workshops

Enjoy playing, exploring, as well as making and eating exciting recipes with colourful winter vegetables!

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Beetroot • Butternut • Parsnips • Turnips • Kumara (sweet potato)

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These workshops are specifically designed for reluctant, hesitant or picky eaters or those that would like to expand their range of 'accepted' vegetables to eat.​ Anyone who would like a fun activity during the school holidays is welcome – they are for a caregiver and up to three children.

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BENEFITS INCLUDE:

• Helping children to experience new food textures with their hands and their tongue (beetroot).

• Enjoying spending time with you.

• Learning a little bit of food science.

• Practicing language concepts such as describing attributes and differences.

• Developing social skills like turn taking and good sportsmanship.

• Implementing cognitive reasoning and memory skills.

• Building social aptitude.

• Use of fine motor skills and experience touching a potentially new food just with thumb and forefinger.

• Messy play with food to build bravery and confidence.

• Practicing vocabulary skills and understanding of representational objects (e.g. Mr Potato Head with a turnip – understanding the parts that represent eyes, hands, where the shoes and hat go etc).