Cooking And Gardening For Young Children.
Cooking And Gardening For Young Children.
The Foodies / Resources
These pages are a mixture of our own resources, and those we have found from other people and organisations. Some resources here have been provided by practitioners and parents who have tried and tested them, but you will have to assess for yourself the benefits for your own children and whether it will meet the guidelines you are working with.
Some resources are created by food industries. While they are not allowed to promote intentionally inaccurate information, they will naturally wish to promote their product as the most important part of the diet. However some of the resources they provide are very good when used in context. Wherever I am aware that a resource is industry sponsored I will say so, and you can exercise your common sense in evaluating it.
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Books (5)
Classroom Activity Ideas and Lesson Plans (1)
Farm, Factory and Shop Related Activity Ideas (4)
Food Related Activities (10)
Growing Related Activities (11)
Good Websites (5)
Online Games, Videos and Downloadables (24)
Other Useful Bits and Pieces (9)
Recipes (1)
Places to find recipe collections (7)
Single Recipes (29)
Seasonal Food Lists (12)
The Foodies Books Support Resources (1)
Activities Linked To The Story Themes (12)
Food Related Activities (6)
Tried and Tested - Garden Ideas (12)
Tried and Tested - Healthy Living Ideas (1)
Tried and Tested - Kitchen Ideas (11)
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Sowing Beetroot and Carrot Seeds In A Pre-school12/01/2010 12:36:00 Sowing Beetroot And Carrot Seeds At Bluebell Hill Playgroup
In 2008 Bluebell Hill Playgroup received help and funding from Women In Construction and EON to create some raised beds on their site. Bluebell Hill Playgroup is a full day care provider in a mixed usage community centre serving the area of St Anns in Nottingham. They provide pre-school care and education and also a thriving out-of-school club. St Anns is an inner city estate, considered to be economically deprived, and with a very diverse and vibrant community. The Playgroup has been looking after the local children for many years and has grown and developed to meet the parents' needs. In 2009 they are planning to start their first crops. They are learning to do basic composting, growing a few plants inside from seed, and others direct the to ground in their new beds. We visited them in March to film their first planting session. The children involved had never planted seeds like these before, so there was some explanation about scratching grooves (drills) and sprinkling small seed or placing larger seed. The children also learned to cover the seeds over with soil to stop the birds eating them all, and how to water them.
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