🍓This month’s Marmalade Preschool Planning Pack is full of joyful invitations linked to food, friendship and real-life learning. From growing and tasting to role play and storytelling, June offers the perfect opportunity to explore how food connects us—to each other, to our families and to the world around us.
Our June themes are inspired by the everyday magic of mealtimes, baking, shopping, growing and sharing food. The pack supports learning across all seven areas of the EYFS with playful, low-prep ideas that celebrate children’s interests and cultural experiences.
✨ What’s Inside This Month’s Preschool Planning Pack?
This month’s activities are designed to encourage:
🥖 Conversations about food, home and family
🎨 Creative exploration using fruit, dough, and loose parts
🧠 Child-led maths and problem-solving through baking and food play
🌍 Real-world connections—from farms and kitchens to picnics and celebrations
💬 Communication and vocabulary-building in playful food-related contexts
Books like The Little Red Hen and Handa’s Surprise offer plenty of scope for retelling, reflecting and linking learning to children’s lived experiences.
📚 This Month’s Book List
Each month we share a themed book list to support early language, connection and curiosity. June’s selection is full of food-themed favourites—five titles each for babies, toddlers and preschoolers. Perfect for storytime, linking to your snack area, or inspiring playful conversations about cooking, eating and sharing.
📰 This Month’s Ezine: Mini Chefs, Mighty Thinkers
This reflective piece explores how food can be a powerful thread running through play, learning and wellbeing. From snack time to storytelling, we look at how to build language, confidence and community around the table and beyond.
🎧 Podcast: “What’s for Snack?”
In this month’s short podcast, we share ideas for making snack time a moment of connection, independence and learning—without adding stress to your day.
🎥 Video Training: Supporting Food Play & Real-Life Learning in the Early Years
This short training explores:
🍴 Why food is such a powerful learning tool
📚 How to link food play to communication, maths and personal development
🎯 Easy ways to adapt food-based activities for different needs and settings
Articles
1. Why Food Makes Learning Meaningful
Explores how food connects to children’s lived experiences and how mealtimes, cooking and sensory tasting offer rich opportunities for early communication, maths, and emotional development.
2. Building Vocabulary at Mealtimes
A practical guide on how to support communication and language through café role play, recipe sharing, and family photo prompts.
3. Creating a Literacy-Rich Kitchen
A look at how to blend books, signs, labels and storytelling into food play areas to build early reading and writing skills.
4. Real-Life Maths in the Preschool Kitchen
From counting spoonfuls to measuring flour, this article dives into playful ways to build number confidence through cooking, sorting, and food play.
🧡 Let June be a month of flavour, fun and meaningful moments.
Whether you’re baking, chatting, shopping or pretending to run a café—this month is all about nurturing connection, confidence and creativity through the simple, universal joy of food.
💛 Subscriber Info
🗓 Don’t forget to download your May PDF pack by 31st May—it’s yours to keep forever! Look out for the separate email that will drop into your inbox this morning…
💡 Paid subscribers get the preschool pack every month, plus access to the toddler and baby packs for just £2 each.
💜 June Discount Code: Available from 1st to 30th June to download the toddler and baby packs for £2 (normally £7)