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Toast!
Put toast on the menu in your preschool, and on the activity list of your early years play.
Make toasted bread slices for the children and explore colour, taste and toppings ..
 
 

 

Find out together how you like your toast and what making it involves ..
then when ready, serve with fresh fruit & salad vegetables.  
What makes bread brown - maillard reaction
 
 
Which is your most liked piece of toast?

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To help look at preferences and enable opinion, toast 4 pieces of bread to differing degrees of colour. Display and using a digital / other camera take images to print your own resources from.

Slice of toast outline template - compliment real food and photographic resources with mark making sheets. 
toast Making toast resources..

A toaster and access to an electricity supply.
A solid surface area, preferably in full view for the children to see the complete toasting process.

toast Activity planning
brown   Round ended knives
brown  Chunky handled for grip
brown  Left handed for dexterity exploration
brown  Squeezy bootles for topping application.
brown  Serving plates
brown  Cutting boards

toast Toast toppers:
Use these food suggestions to add variety to the serving of your toast ..

---------brown   Chocolate spread
---------brown   Butter - low fat olive oil based spread
---------brown   Honey
---------brown   Syrup
---------brown   Jam
---------brown   Lemon curd
---------brown   Cheese - sliced and grated
---------brown   Marmalade
---------brown   Chutney
---------brown   Peanut butter
---------brown   Marmite
---------brown   Sliced banana
---------brown   Spaghetti
---------brown   Spaghetti hoops
---------brown   Sphagetti shapes
---------brown   Beans

brown   Serve with side salad vegetables and fresh fruit - mandarine segments, apple slices, banana, carrot and cucumer ..
brown   For a more substantial meal, add to a serving of couscous:
For more information - wikipedia article couscous, gluten free couscous, quinoa, savoury rice.

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  Sandwich maker   -   Toaster

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Sandwich toastie maker
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Toaster
Spread prefered topping onto toasted bread
and breads !
There is a diverse selection of breads available each containing great nutritional value.
Fab flour.co.uk
Selection of breads ..
toast These breads serve nicely with sliced apple, other fruits and salad vegetables:
brown   Raisin bread
brown   Cinnamon and nut
brown   Apple and sultanna
brown   Cherry and almond

Enjoy your toasting activities ..

toast CREDITS
4 slices of cooked bread image © iStock Stuart Burford
Selection of breads image © iStock Viktor Fischer
All other images are copyright of Silkysteps.com

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