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(Unit 5) Topic 8: Cooking Up Fun!

4 Clock Hours of Early Childhood Education

Creating Healthy Recipes Example Lesson Plan

​Topic 8 Page 22

The CDA Competency Standard 1.2.3b reflects:
“Candidate encourages children to practice healthy habits.

•  b) Models, communicates and provides activities that teach the importance of good health to children and families.”​

​This Competency Standard gives a measurable objective to be met by early childhood professionals and can be done using cooking in the classroom! When creating a healthy recipe for young children you should consider it the same way you would a lesson plan or activity.

​This means there should be a clear objective, standard being met, materials, procedure, and assessment. ​​

Recipe (Lesson) Name: Fruit Salad

Age Group:

• Toddler
• Preschool
• School-age

Objectives:

• Children will participate in making their own healthy snack
• Children will practice healthy portion sizing

CDA Competency Standard:
CDA Competency Standard 1.2.3b
Candidate encourages children to practice healthy habits.

• b) Models, communicates and provides activities that teach the importance of good health to children and families.

Materials:

• Plastic butter knives or pastry cutters
• Cutting boards
• Large spoon
• Large bowl
• Fresh fruits such as melons, oranges, bananas, apples, mango, berries
• One lemon

Procedure:

1. Demonstrate the proper way to cut the fruits provided and supervise children as they cut and chop the fruits. Add chopped fruit to a large bowl.
2. Cut the lemon in half and have children take turns squeezing the juice into the bowl of fruit and stirring it all around.
3. Show children what a healthy portion size looks like and allow older children to serve themselves some of the fruit salad.

Assessment:

• Observe and record children’s participation and portion sizing. 

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