Make a picnic and practice stacking

What you need 

• Bread 
• A selection of sandwich fillings 
• Containers or boxes for sandwiches 

What to do 

• Make a picnic together and involve your toddler in making the food.  
• When you have made some sandwiches and other food find a box each for you and your child.  
• Show them how you put the food into the box and then encourage them to put their food into their box. 
• Let them experiment with fitting the different shapes and sizes into the space they have, and try not to worry if things get a little squashed or scattered as they work.

Good to know 

Spreading, mixing and putting sandwiches together provides lots of opportunities to develop physical skills.  

Your toddler will use some of the same skills as when building a bridge. They will need to watch what you do, remember how you moved and positioned the food, then do this themselves with their own food.