Food & Drink

A collection of early years (EYFS) and key stage 1 (KS1) lesson plans and ideas relating to the topic of ‘food and drink’, ideal for encouraging discussion about the topic in your classroom or early years setting.

If you have a lesson plan or activity that has worked well in your early years setting and you would like to share it with other practitioners then please get in touch, we’d love to hear from you.

A simple but very tasty recipe for making animal crackers. These biscuits only take 2 minutes to coo... Animal Crackers Recipe

Animal Crackers Recipe

This recipe is brilliant for using in your classroom or early years setting as it only requires a mi... Chocolate Marshmallow Turtle Recipe

Chocolate Marshmallow Turtle Recipe

An illustrated recipe for making chocolate porridge,... Chocolate Porridge Recipe

Chocolate Porridge Recipe

A very simple take on Millionaires Shortbread, but with digestive biscuits rather than shortbread an... Chocolate Squares Recipe

Chocolate Squares Recipe

A very simple recipe for baking 12 fruit buns, with easily available ingredients.... Currant Buns Recipe

Currant Buns Recipe

A selection of Easter ideas and recipes to help you celebrate either at home or at school.... Early Years Cooking: Easter Recipes and Craft Ideas

Early Years Cooking: Easter Recipes and Craft Ideas

A series of spooky Halloween recipes and craft ideas to try at home or at school to help your throw... Early Years Cooking: Halloween Recipes and Ideas

Early Years Cooking: Halloween Recipes and Ideas

A step by step made to making a gingerbread house. This resource includes ideas for decoration and t... Early Years Cooking: How to Make a Gingerbread House

Early Years Cooking: How to Make a Gingerbread House

A collection of Christmas recipes with simple ingredients and well explained steps, making them idea... Early Years Cooking: Simple Christmas Recipes

Early Years Cooking: Simple Christmas Recipes

An A4 sheet featuring a list of useful EYFS / KS1 books on the topic of the food and drink.... Food and Drink Book List

Food and Drink Book List

Granola bars are perfect for having for breakfast or at snack time, and they’re very simple to mak... Granola Bars Recipe

Granola Bars Recipe

These cakes are a firm favourite with us because all you really need is chocolate and cornflakes (an... Icy Cakes Recipe

Icy Cakes Recipe

This is a fun recipe for making animals out of marzipan. Ask the children to try and mold the marzip... Marzipan Animals Recipe

Marzipan Animals Recipe

These yummy savoury biscuits are a great addition to any picnic and are fun (and quick!) to bake at... Sesame Snail Biscuits Recipe

Sesame Snail Biscuits Recipe

This recipe is ideal to use with children to introduce them to cooking, as it uses very simple ingre... Tomato Puffs Recipe

Tomato Puffs Recipe