On Monday, May 28 we installed an outdoor kitchen in the playground. The children had helped to prep the space before by digging a hole and filling it with bricks and sand as a base.
Outdoor kitchens bring an atmosphere that creates peer contribution to play, and engages imagination while invoking thought and problem solving.
Children demonstrate a sense of belonging when they participate in social interactions, shared exploration and play with peer and other adults (HDLH, 2014, pg.26).
Children communicate with each other to create meals together, discussions how to cook it, how long, what ingredients are needed.
Most of the food that is created at the outdoor kitchen reflects meals that the children eat for lunch at the centre; chicken, eggs, tacos, pasta are the most common. Children demonstrate a sense of self and health and well being when they are increasingly aware of and able to make healthy choices to support their needs (HDLH, 2014, pg.32).
