Michele Galbraith is used to whipping up sandwiches and fruit platters for the young minds at St Pauls Lutheran Church Child Care but once a month she spices things up and introduces a new food from across the world to help start a journey of discovery in the classroom. 

Mrs Galbraith said the kindergarten students had explored the food and the culture of the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, China and Ireland. 

“It’s about educating the children about multiculturalism and to tell them we’re all the same but from different countries,” she said.

After researching each country’s national dish, she gets to work in the kitchen to whip up a tasty treat. 

Mrs Galbraith said some items had been so popular with the kids she has decided to keep them on the kindy’s menu for good. 

“They really liked coconut rice with chicken and spinach that we made for the Papua New Guinea month,” she said. 

“We’ve also included parents. 

‘‘One of the parents is a Filipina chef and she came in and cooked for us.

‘‘We have a little boy from New Zealand and he did the haka for us too.”

This month the kindy is coloured with reds, blacks and yellows to celebrate NAIDOC Week and Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander culture. 

St Pauls Lutheran Church Child Care service leader Val Hendriks said celebrating a different culture was also about making kids from different backgrounds feel welcome at kindy.