But why is it so important ?, how it relates to food and how I can use it for it to be carried out in a pleasant and healthy?
The game helps the child to implement physical, cognitive and psychosocial skills, and expand their knowledge and experiences and develop their curiosity and confidence.
- It gives them joy, fun and happiness.
- Mealtime becomes significant, since it involves what you eat and how you eat.
- To explore touching and tasting her food, children progress in their development while undergoing constant challenges.
- The links with siblings and adults and teaches them to follow rules while interacting with them on the table.
Tips for involving the game at mealtime:
- Let him use the senses to experiment with food.
- Make sure the game is done with the same food and not with other technological instruments or toys, since the attention of what we want to strengthen it deviates.
- Creates innovative dishes containing funny faces or stories.
- Whenever you can beam themed week. Animals Monday, Tuesday transport, and try to prepare dishes together representing a character of these issues.
- Take the stage of development of your child. If you are in the sensori-motor stage where exploring with the senses prevails, let it touch the food, to help you prepare and linked with her relaxed and diertidadivertida way. If you are in the pre-operational stage where symbolic play begins, the imagination and sets of rules, let it be a character and play a role.
- Do not focus on food. Remember that if you pay too much, the child identifies that is something that worries you and the food stops being pleasant. Play, schmooze and enjoy yourselves.
