Buzz Buzz Busy Bees: An Animal Sounds Book

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While cooking with your child, you can help them to understand the origin of the food on their plate, for example do they know that carrots grow in the ground or that cheese is made from milk? The recipes that you will find in ‘Cooking with Buzz’ come from all over the world, providing you with the opportunity to find out about different cultures and countries as well! Strictly stars James and Ola Jordan were inspired to make spoon people with their daughter Ella as part of a Busy Bees survey into craft activities and messy play Consider any allergies your child may have before starting this experience. This playdough recipe also works with gluten free flour Dance - created by a qualified dance teacher as well as routines created by former pussycat doll, Kimberly Wyatt.

Cooking provides many opportunities for children to use and understand mathematical language. For example, ordinal language such as “First we need the flour, next we need the cheese”. Children are able to take part in weighing and measuring and these practical activities will help children to experience what less and more, full and empty look like. You can encourage your child to predict and estimate; “How long do you think the ice lollies will need to be in the freezer before they are frozen?” or “How many more scoops of flour do you think we need to fill the cup?” Children will have many opportunities to practice counting with meaning, for example when they count out how many tablespoons of oil they need or count out paper cases in a muffin tray. Practicing these skills and hearing these terms in meaningful experiences will support children to understand them better. Invite your child to help you make a start and finish line in your garden; with a couple of pieces of clothing, a tea towel or a piece of garden equipment. Following this, explain that we are going to take part in different races. You are then ready to play ice cream shops with your toddler! Invite your child to prepare bowls of ice cream dough for their customers, encouraging them to count out how many scoops of each flavour the customer would like to buy! Developed in partnership with speech and language advisors ICAN, our bespoke programme supports your child’s communication and language skills in nursery and at home, including supporting those with communication difficulties. Exploring this sensory dough helps your child learn through their senses and make connections. Counting out the dough supports their early counting skillsThe Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan invested in Busy Bees in 2013, enabling our international expansion It is important that children are offered a range of experiences to develop their physical skills which cover all elements of physical development such as gross and fine motor skills, endurance, coordination, flexibility, strength, body management skills such as balancing, locomotor skills such as running or crawling and object control such as using a bat or ball. Cooking is a very sensory experience where children have the opportunity to smell, feel and ultimately taste different ingredients. Use scientific terms such as solid and liquid and describe the textures of what you are making. Encourage the children to smell each of the ingredients they are using and use descriptive language to tell you about them. Encourage your child to crawl to the first item, provide them with sufficient time to explore this. Each Busy Bees centre has had significant investment in physical equipment to encourage your child to be active.

UP - our exclusive learning programme for families and educators. Full of exciting and inspirational learning activities that are used across our nurseries and at home. Whilst cooking, children will hear and develop new vocabulary, for example ingredients they may not have heard of and skills they have not used before such as “peel”, “sieve”, “whisk” and “combine”. These opportunities will support your child learning and using new words.

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Cooking with Buzz provides you with a variety of different recipes to try with your child. Cooking is a fantastic learning experience, providing so many opportunities for teaching new skills and it's great fun too! Kenny Churchill, Paralympic gold medallist, developed a gross motor movement programme in partnership with Busy Bees