Making Lunch a Success
Preschool Lunch Packing Tips
P
acking lunches for your pint size child takes a little thought and planning. Use these tips to ease the everyday chore of prepping lunch boxes in which your toddler will dine from
Practice
Before your child starts a new childcare or preschool program do some practice lunch runs at home. You will better understand the items your child is comfortable eating and see how he is able to open, or not, the containers you are planning on sending. Learn where his lunch will be stored at the new school and what the signal and process will be for lunchtime. Practice having your child retrieve his lunchbox, sitting down at the lunch table and taking out his napkin before eating. Walk you child through proper table manners in a group situation. Some 20
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programs have children sit and wait for all of the kids to be present at the table before allowing children to begin to eat. If your child doesn’t have any experience with lunch boxes, food containers and water bottles have your child experiment with the opening and closing the containers and when done putting all items back into the lunch box and back into a backpack to go home.
Consider the Packaging
Be sure to get a lunchbox and food containers that are easy to open, close and stay closed. You don’t
