Nursery World - Learning and Development: Baking

A Reggio Emilia-inspired nursery has been exploring the ingredients
and processes involved in baking - and has documented its approach in a
new book, as Hannah Crown explains

Baking has long been a popular activity with young children - a chance for them to get their hands dirty, experiment with colours and textures, and learn about weighing, measuring, volume and time.

Reggio specialist Little Barn Owls Day Nursery and Farm School, in Horsham, West Sussex, has taken this idea one step further: running a four-month project concentrating on the means - the ingredients and processes involved in baking - rather than the end (the cake).

The nursery has created the 40-page Cake Book. Named by one of the children, the book is not a list of recipes, but a record of each messy stage of the process. The project involved three- and four-year-olds in sessions of between four and six children.

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