Preparing and Offering Snack

Safety

The adult checks the allergy list for every child who will be offered the food before the child carries it to them.
Children who take a piece have washed their hands and sit to eat.
Food follows the safe shapes in the earlier works: soft slices, thin sticks, quartered grapes, no whole nuts, no popcorn, no hard raw carrot rounds.
A piece that has touched a child's mouth does not go back on the serving plate.

Presentation

1
Invite the child. Wash hands together and put on aprons.
2
Choose the food with the child from the works they already know. Check the allergy list for the child and for every child who will be offered the food.
3
Prepare the food as in its own work, making a few more pieces than usual.
4
Arrange the pieces on the serving plate. Count the friends at the snack table with the child and count out one piece for each.
5
Show how to carry the plate with two hands, walking slowly to the table.
6
Walk with the child. At each seated friend, the child holds the plate out and the adult says: 'Would you like some?'
7
Accept any answer. Say 'Thank you' when a friend takes a piece and 'All right' when a friend says no.
8
The child sits and eats their own piece, then carries the plate back to the washing area.

Extensions, easiest to hardest

Offer snack to the adults in the room
Prepare two foods for the same plate
Put the prepared food on the snack table for children to take during the morning

Control of error

Running out of pieces before every friend has been offered one shows the count was not right; food sliding off the plate shows the plate was tipped while carrying.

Ready to move on when the child…

Prepares the food with little help
Carries the plate to the table without dropping food
Offers a piece to each friend and waits for the answer