Preparing a simple no-cook snack
Design & Technology · Key Stage 1 · The School
Washing hands properly
Wet your hands first. Add soap. Rub for twenty seconds, all over, including between your fingers and under your nails. Rinse it all off. Dry your hands on a clean towel. Water alone does not do the job. Soap and time do.
A clean surface too
Wipe the table clean before you start. Use a clean plate or board. Germs can sit on a dirty surface just as easily as on dirty hands. Cleaning your hands but using a dirty table would waste all that careful washing.
Making a fruit kebab
Thread pieces of soft fruit onto a blunt stick, one piece at a time. A piece of banana. A grape. A piece of soft melon. No cutting is needed if the fruit is already prepared. No cooking is needed at all. Just careful, clean assembly.
Making a snack, start to finish
Wash your hands with soap for twenty seconds. Dry them. Wipe the table clean. Get out a clean plate and the fruit pieces, already cut by an adult. Thread banana, then grape, then melon onto a blunt stick. Push each piece on gently, so it does not squash. Lay the finished kebab on the clean plate. Wash the stick and plate afterwards too. Every single step, from washing your hands to washing up, matters just as much as the assembling itself.
Why hygiene matters, even for a simple snack
No cooking happened here at all, but hygiene still mattered enormously. Anything you eat can carry germs from dirty hands or a dirty surface, cooked or not. A simple, no-cook snack still needs the same careful hygiene as a hot meal.