Searching for an educational, EYLF aligned cooking & food education program designed specifically for Kindergarten & Childcare that provides high impact learning experiences?
You've come to the right place!
Our program delivers high impact, scaffolded learning experiences directly mapped to the EYLF outcomes.
It also delivers to all 7 of the quality areas and can help your service reach an exceeding rating!
The BAKER KIDS program comprises of
4 progressive MODULES each containing 5 lessons, supported by a Professional Development Course for your educators.
TAKE A QUICK LOOK AT EACH MODULE.
Module 1 builds the essential foundations for confident, capable young cooks through five engaging, hands on lessons.
Children are introduced to core cooking skills including measuring, mixing, spreading, kneading, and safe food preparation techniques.
They begin to develop fine motor skills through actions such as pouring, cutting (with age appropriate tools), and handling ingredients with control and care.
Students explore early numeracy concepts by measuring ingredients, recognising quantities, and following simple sequences.
Literacy is supported through listening to instructions, learning food related vocabulary, and engaging in discussion about ingredients and processes.
The module also introduces foundational health and science concepts. Through experiences like Eat the Rainbow and Smoothies, children learn about a variety of foods, colour groups, and the idea of “everyday foods” that support their bodies.
In Exploring Energy, children begin to understand how food gives them energy to play, grow, and learn.
Social and emotional development is embedded throughout, as children practice turn taking, following routines, working collaboratively, and building confidence to try new foods and skills, in a supportive environment.
By the end of Module 1, children have established the foundational skills, knowledge, and confidence needed to participate safely and successfully in cooking experiences, setting them up for deeper skill development in subsequent modules.”
Module 2 builds on foundational skills as children begin to explore greater independence, creativity, and cultural awareness.
Throughout this module, children strengthen their core cooking abilities while taking more ownership of the process.
In Old Fashioned Faves (chocolate crackles and shortbread), students practice independent mixing, combining ingredients, and following multi step instructions with increasing confidence. Fine motor skills are further refined through shaping, pressing, and decorating.
Children are introduced to diverse food experiences and cultural connections. Mexican Fiesta and Let the Good Times Roll expose students to new ingredients, flavours, and preparation styles, encouraging curiosity and openness to trying unfamiliar foods.
In Sprinkles and Shades, children experiment with colour mixing, decorating, and visual presentation, linking cooking to early science and creative arts. Cookie Jar reinforces these skills through shaping, design, and personal expression.
Early numeracy and literacy skills continue to develop as children follow more detailed steps, measure with increasing accuracy, and engage in discussions about processes, textures, and outcomes. Children also begin to problem solve, make simple decisions, and adapt their approach with guidance.
Socially, students build confidence working more independently while still collaborating with peers, sharing resources, and participating in group routines. They are encouraged to take pride in their creations and develop a stronger sense of capability in the kitchen.
By the end of Module 2, children are more confident, curious, and independent learners who are ready to expand their skills, embrace new challenges, and engage more deeply with both the creative and practical aspects of cooking.
Module 3 deepens children’s skills as they move into more intentional creating, refining techniques, and making meaningful connections across cooking, science, and real world experiences.
Throughout this module, children further develop precision and control in their cooking. They practice more advanced preparation techniques such as assembling, portioning, and combining ingredients with greater independence. Fine motor skills are strengthened through detailed tasks like spreading, folding, shaping, and carefully constructing food items.
Real world connections are a strong focus.
In Cafe and Tea Party, children engage in role play and social scenarios, exploring food presentation, simple menu concepts, and the experience of preparing and serving food for others. This supports both communication skills and an understanding of everyday food environments.
Children also explore where food comes from and how it is produced. In Say Cheese and Honey and the Bees, they are introduced to basic food origins and processes, building early awareness of production, sustainability, and the natural world.
Cloudy with a Chance of Dumplings extends both cooking and science learning. Children independently mix their own fillings and practice precise folding and pressing techniques, further strengthening fine motor control. This lesson also introduces simple science concepts such as weather, steam, and condensation, linking cooking processes to real world phenomena in an engaging and memorable way.
Numeracy and literacy skills continue to develop as children follow more complex sequences, measure with increased accuracy, and describe processes and outcomes using richer vocabulary.
Problem solving and decision making are encouraged as children adjust techniques and take greater responsibility for their creations.
By the end of Module 3, children are confident creators who can apply their skills with greater independence, think more deeply about food and its origins, and make connections between cooking, science, and everyday life thus preparing them for the final stage of mastery.
Module 4 represents the culmination of the program, where children bring together their skills, knowledge, and confidence to work with increasing independence, purpose, and precision.
In the Mastering term, children refine their techniques while taking ownership of the full cooking process, from preparation through to presentation.
A key focus of this module is sequencing and independent thinking. Children learn that both food and cooking follow a logical order of steps.
In Breakfast Time, they explore simple, everyday food preparation, reinforcing practical life skills and building confidence in making their own meals at home.
In Faster Pasta, they explore how ingredients are created and transformed, beginning with understanding how wheat is processed into flour, which is then combined to form dough and shaped into pasta. They follow and apply a clear sequence: mixing, rolling, cutting, cooking, and adding sauce thus developing their ability to plan, organise, and execute multi step processes.
Children extend this understanding by learning that even creativity follows a sequence: building a base, adding ingredients, and combining flavours.
This strengthens decision making, problem solving, and confidence in their own ideas.
Across the module, children demonstrate increased independence as they plan, prepare, and assemble recipes with minimal support.
Children independently measure, cut, and prepare a chocolate mug cake alongside a fresh berry fruit salad, reinforcing concepts of balance while strengthening independence, confidence, accuracy and control, further reinforces the health concepts introduced in the Foundations course.
The module culminates in My Masterpiece Meal, a capstone experience where children independently create a three part meal: a drink, a food item, and a dessert. They select ingredients, sequence their tasks (preparing a drink, assembling a main, and creating a dessert), and apply a wide range of skills including measuring, cutting, mixing, spreading, layering, and presenting their food. This experience emphasises planning, independence, creativity, and reflection, as children recognise and celebrate the skills they have developed across the program. In this lesson they practice sequencing timed activities.
Socially and emotionally, children show increased confidence, resilience, and independence. They take responsibility for their work, collaborate effectively, and express pride in their achievements.
By the end of Module 4, children are capable, confident young cooks who can follow and create processes, make informed choices, and apply their skills in real life contexts with independence and creativity
How does Baker Kids deliver to the Quality Areas and help you achieve an exceeding rating!
Frequently Asked Questions
Short answer is, Yes. Baker Kids is designed to be flexible and easy to implement across Early Learning, Kindergarten and Childcare settings, with activities that can be adapted to different ages, abilities, group sizes and service environments.
There are a few pieces of necessary equipment required for many of the course lessons such as an oven or microwave and a fridge, but there are selected lessons that don’t require either.
BUT BE AWARE that according to the Food Safety Act 2006:
- Most businesses that manufacture, prepare or sell unpackaged potentially hazardous food are required to have a Food business license
- It is likely if you are a Childcare service, a school, tuckshop or similar that you will have to hold a Food Business License from your local council to conduct cooking lessons
The best thing to do is contact your local council to determine your state and LGA rules around this licensing.
Educators receive clear lesson plans, step by step instructions and supporting resources, making the program easy to deliver without specialist cooking experience.
Training and professional development resources are also available to support confident implementation.
Baker Kids is specifically designed to minimise preparation time, with detailed and timed lessons, the provision of equipment for each class, inclusive of printed resourcing for students and educators. Activities can be incorporated into your existing routine and adapted to suit your service’s available time.
Program pricing depends on the modules and or lessons you choose.
We license our program so that you aren’t limited in the number of children that can attend, nor the number of times you can repeat the lesson within the licensed period.
The more children you deliver the program to and the more repetitions you complete, the lower the cost per student becomes!
Contact Baker Kids for a package tailored to your service. bakerkidsbyloveinside@gmail.com
Yes. Baker Kids Cooking and Food education program has been developed through practical delivery with hundreds of students (spanning ages 2-12 year olds-> weighted towards 2-6 year olds).
It has been delivered across multiple early learning centres and demograhpic areas.
It has been refined over several years and multiple deliveries of each lesson to suit the needs of Early Childhood and Kindy environments, with a focus on engagement, learning outcomes, educator usability and practical implementation.
The Baker Kids program includes age appropriate adaptation steps for children from 2-6 years old. For this reason you can teach this across rooms in your service with amazing results and consistency of communication to parents/carers to drive inclusiveness across the service.
Each lesson plan and recipe includes specific guidance and suggestions as to how to offer appropriate substitutions in order to cater to a broad range of dietary requirements and alternatives to support the inclusion of all students.
I’d love to hear from you. As the person who has created, refined and delivered these lessons I figure I am best placed to answer any /all questions that you have. Initally you can get in contact by emailing me at bakerkidsbyloveinside@gmail.com from here I can repond via email and/or set up a phone all to discuss any and all questions that you might have for your service.
It is very state dependent here in the big vast country we call Australia, kindy and early childhood is managed differently in each state government and can change annually.
It is something you will be best to check based on funding in your state.
Here are some things you might like to explore.
QLD 2023-2028: Check out the Base Subsidy (maximum 20%) for the Program/Resources (there is specific mention of “cooking experiences” and also check out Kindy Uplift info regarding the Personal Development Course available. LINK here: https://earlychildhood.qld.gov.au/fundingAndSupport/Documents/subsidy-spending-rules-ldc.pdf
It is very state dependent here in the big vast country we call Australia, kindy and early childhood is managed differently in each state government and can change annually.
It is something you will be best to check based on funding in your state.
Here are some things you might like to explore.
VIC permanent School Readiness Funding: https://www.vic.gov.au/school-readiness-funding.
Our program currently likely sits under the “flexible funding area” but we have recently submitted an EOI to become a menu item provider.
It is very state dependent here in the big vast country we call Australia, kindy and early childhood is managed differently in each state government and can change annually.
It is something you will be best to check based on funding in your state.
Here are some things you might like to explore.
NSW: Excerpt form the Start Strong spending rules https://education.nsw.gov.au/early-childhood-education/operating-an-early-childhood-education-service/grants-and-funded-programs/start-strong-funding/start-strong-for-community-preschools/2026-start-strong-for-community-preschools-program-guidelines
Baker Kids Program might sit here? Align with guidelines of quality uplift. Educational resources and opportunities: selected to support children’s learning informed by service context, philosophy, the Early Years Learning Framework, Quality Improvement Plan, the National Quality Standards, or contributions from the local community.
It is very state dependent here in the big vast country we call Australia, kindy and early childhood is managed differently in each state government and can change annually.
It is something you will be best to check based on funding in your state.
Here are some things you might like to explore.
ACT: Perhaps? Three-year-old preschool Program Guidelines
Click to access Three-year-old-preschool-Program-Guidelines-2026.pdf
4.6.2. Program Funding spending rules
The Partner Provider must spend the Program Funding to:
1. Deliver a 300 hour per year quality preschool program by a degree qualified ECT to 3-year-old
children; or
2. Support recruitment of a degree qualified ECT; and
3. Any combination below:
a) develop a quality preschool program based on the Early Years Learning Framework V2.0 including
delivery of evidence-based learning programs such as incursions and excursions for children
It is very state dependent here in the big vast country we call Australia, kindy and early childhood is managed differently in each state government and can change annually.
It is something you will be best to check based on funding in your state.
Here are some things you might like to explore.
WA: Perhaps?
https://childaustralia.org.au/programs-and-projects/grants-program/
Grants are available from $20,000 to $200,000.
Click to access 2026-WA-PRA-Grant-Guidelines.pdf
Facilitate children’s early learning and development, and transition to compulsory
schooling, through maintaining universal access to, and maximising participation in,
affordable, high quality early childhood education programs in the year before
fulltime school, delivered by degree-qualified Early Childhood Teachers.
All-Inclusive Fees: Many WA childcare providers build the cost of regular incursions directly into their standard daily gap fee. If the incursion is part of the daily routine, it is included in the session fee submitted to Centrelink.
It is very state dependent here in the big vast country we call Australia, kindy and early childhood is managed differently in each state government and can change annually.
It is something you will be best to check based on funding in your state.
Here are some things you might like to explore.
SA: Perhaps? https://www.education.sa.gov.au/parents-and-families/safety-and-wellbeing/health/food-security-grants-for-south-australia-government-schools-and-preschools
Food Security Grants
Community cooking workshops – Run hands-on cooking classes for families, students, and staff, focusing on affordable and culturally inclusive healthy recipes. Funds can support facilitation, ingredients and take-home resources.
Staff and volunteer upskilling – Provide professional development for staff or community volunteers on supporting food security, planning healthy menus and delivering nutrition education.
Seasonal cultural cooking events – Host shared food experiences celebrating the diverse cultural backgrounds of the school community, featuring hands-on cooking sessions and shared healthy meals.
It is very state dependent here in the big vast country we call Australia, kindy and early childhood is managed differently in each state government and can change annually.
It is something you will be best to check based on funding in your state.
Here are some things you might like to explore.
TAS:
Perhaps? https://educationandcare.tas.gov.au/grants/
The Education and Care Grants Program provide funds for grants initiatives that support:
- enhancing the quality and safety of education and care,
- building workforce skills and leadership capability,
- supporting innovative projects that improve outcomes for children and families, and
- promoting inclusion and community understanding of the importance of quality education and care.
Many Tasmanian childcare providers include the price of scheduled incursions directly inside their standard session or daily fee ie. The center budgets for a certain number of educational events throughout the year and spreads the expense across all regular bookings.
It is very state dependent here in the big vast country we call Australia, kindy and early childhood is managed differently in each state government and can change annually.
It is something you will be best to check based on funding in your state.
Here are some things you might like to explore.
NT:
Perhaps? Via https://grantsnt.nt.gov.au/ the Child and Family Community Fund
- Ready to Learn Engagement: How sensory food play, nutrition education, or interactive tasks foster early literacy, math skills (measuring), or teamwork.
- Evidence-Based Practice: Demonstration that early culinary education or healthy dietary habit formation leads to improved long-term pediatric health outcomes.
YES. Follow this link to a generic grant proposal document that you can populate to submit for a grant to embed Baker Kids Cooking and Food Education Program into your Early Childhood Centre.
https://bakerkidsbyloveinside.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Baker-Kids-Kindergarten-Grant-Proposal-Template.docx
If you require a detailed costing schedule, please just contact us at bakerkidsbyloveinside@gmail.com and we’re more than happy to support you in this.
Below is my really long review 😊!
I recently had the pleasure of experiencing an incursion led by Jo from Bakers Kids, and let me just say, it was an absolute blast!
From start to finish, Jo's level of preparation and organization was impeccable. It was evident that she put a tremendous amount of effort into planning every aspect of the program, ensuring that it was not only educational but also incredibly engaging for the children.
What truly stood out to me was Jo's ability to keep the kids fully immersed and entertained throughout the entire incursion.
From the moment she began, it was clear that she had a natural knack for capturing their attention and keeping them excited about learning.
Her energy and enthusiasm were infectious, and it was wonderful to see how responsive and involved the children were under her guidance.
One of the things that impressed me the most was Jo's effective strategies for managing behaviour.
Despite the inevitable challenges that come with working with a group of children, she handled everything with such grace and calmness.
Her approach was both firm and gentle, and it was evident that she had a genuine connection with each child, which made them feel valued and respected.
But perhaps the most important thing of all was the sheer amount of fun the kids had during the incursion.
Jo managed to strike the perfect balance between learning and enjoyment, and it was heartwarming to see the smiles on their faces as they participated in the activities she had planned.
Overall, I cannot recommend Jo from Bakers Kids highly enough. Her passion for what she does shines through in every aspect of her work, and the impact she has on the children is truly remarkable. If you're looking for someone who is not only prepared and organized but also incredibly skilled at engaging and inspiring young minds, Jo is without a doubt the perfect choice.
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