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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Beat the Meanies17/05/2012 11:59:00 Beat the Meanies We found this fab game over at Garden Greenies, an Australian website full of fun ideas, games and projects to get kids interested in gardening. Beat the Meanies helps kids identify garden pests and includes lots of facts on helpful insects too. Use the mouse to control a spade to beat the meanies... Bouncin' Taters03/05/2012 11:42:00 Bouncin' Taters We had fun bouncing potatoes from the veggie patch onto the farm truck with this game from the Idaho Potato Commission website. The site includes lots of yummy recipes plus a 'Just for Kids' section. Bouncin' Taters is a great game for developing mouse skills and it takes a bit of dexterity to land the potatoes in the waiting truck. You can play the game here. ... Mr Bloom's Nursery Veggie Playtime26/04/2012 10:56:00 Mr Bloom's Nursery Veggie Playtime We had fun trying out the new games on the CBeebies website which accompany their TV series Mr Bloom's Nursery. Children can choose from five games which help develop their mouse and keyboard skills while having fun with veg! The games help them recognise aubergines, butternut squash, runner beans, cabbages and fennel. Your kids won't learn how to grow their own veg but this just might get them interested. Have a go! ... Make A Smoothie Game10/06/2011 11:30:00 Make A Smoothie Game This is a drag and drop game where you work on an assembly line in a cafe and have to make smoothies to order. It is quite fast paced but once children have got the hang of it they can get quite a few smoothies made. It requires children to be able to add the ingredients from an order and recognise what those items look like. There are pictures to help those who don't read well yet. The fruits are shown in both sliced and whole form. Good fast fun. To ... What A Plant Needs Song and Video10/06/2011 11:11:00 What A Plant Needs - song and video We found this fun video and short song on youtube by Harry Kindergarten. It is a fun whiteboard video which tells children that plants need water, soil, space, light and air to grow. ... Healthy Plate Of Food Game09/05/2011 12:59:00 Healthy Plate Of Food Game There are a few games around which allow you to choose foods and drag and drop them onto a plate to see what sort of meal you'd make. This one is particularly good because it gives you an analysis on the right hand side of how balanced your meal is in terms of different food groups and the nutritients you're looking to take it. Also if you double click on any food, a little card pops up with more sophisticated information about the nutritional profile ... Food Matching Game09/05/2011 12:32:00 Food Matching Game Another fun and accessible memory game. There are 12 cards in this game, you turn the cards over and trying to find a matching pair. In this case the cards include foods from most food groups, so by the end of the game you have found the elements of a balanced diet. ... Farmer Foggy Tractors video17/03/2011 12:07:00 Farmer Foggy Tractors Video Farmer Foggy is a show made for young children and set on a live farm. This video is a great 5 minute clip from the Fantastic Farm Machines show. It runs through several of the most common farm machines - tractor, baler, plough, scoop etc. If your child is tractor mad or you're learning about farm machines this is a really useful video. ... Snack Dash Platform Game28/02/2011 19:35:00 School Food Trust "Snack Dash" platform game This is a game in the classic style of Sonic the Hedgehog, with a healthy foods twist, on the Get Real site You have to negotiate your way around a school picking up healthy snacks and avoiding fast foods and bad guys, in the shortest time you can. The movement of the character is very similar to Sonic, with boost spins blasting the bad guys and spinning round loop-the-loops. If you accidentally catch junk food your character gets ... Find Supermarket Items With DW10/02/2011 16:10:00 Find Supermarket Items With DW This is a great game on the PBS Kids site. Arthur's little sister DW (from the TV show Arthur) is at the supermarket and needs your help to find the right items. Scrolling left and right up and down the aisle, you have to find three items in a certain category as given to you over the tannoy. You drag and drop three items at a time in to your trolley and if you are correct DW takes them to the checkout an... Curious George Fruit Counting and Juggling Game10/02/2011 12:48:00 Curious George Fruit Counting and Juggling Game This cute Curious George game on PBS kids is a simple counting game for pre-schoolers but which uses fruits as its props. Children have to click on the right number of fruits for George to juggle, simple as that, but it uses apples, pears, oranges and bananas, so it's another fun game for building familiarity. ... Memory Game23/11/2010 11:02:00 Memory Game This classic memory game asks you to turn over cards and find pairs of matching foods. The cards are colour coded for different food groups. There is a timer which may make it too fast moving for younger children. ... Food Jigsaws23/11/2010 10:49:00 Food Jigsaws Here are a few food related online online picture jigsaws which your kids can drag and drop to complete on screen. You can choose how many pieces to have and it goes from 9 pieces up to 49 pieces. There are several food related pictures: Blueberries Carrot Chicken Veggies Milk (dairy) group Peanut Butter Orange Milk Whole Grain Macaroni ... Whack A Snack23/11/2010 10:35:00 Whack A Snack Like Whack A Mole, this Whack A Snack game relies on speed of reaction. Instead of bashing moles popping up through holes, you have to click on a particular kind of food on plates, as the plate covers are whipped away. Different foods are shown, so you have to recognise the one food you are looking for, so it improves food recognition, mouse control and reaction speed. There are ten rounds which get gradually faster, and each time you play a different food group is us... DDSW Garden Veg Spot The Difference10/06/2010 14:33:00 Dig Down South West - Garden Veg Spot The Difference Dig Down South West is a project to get kids gardening and they have a lovely website set up. http://www.digdownsw.co.uk They have some downloadable games and bits and pieces including this spot the difference. ... Eat A Rainbow Fruit and Veg Animation19/04/2010 19:28:00 Eat A Rainbow Fruit and Veg Animation . This is a short fun animation workshop piece made at the Children's Food Festival by Sharyn Singer's project, Eat A Rainbow Every Day. It's a stop motion animation using lots of foods to make moving fun faces and shapes You can find it here: http://www.eatarainboweveryday.com/#/news/4534063316... Lenny Lettuce Tractor Printable Colouring Picture16/03/2010 12:53:00 Lenny Lettuce Tractor Colouring Picture This is a downloadable picture from the British Leafy Salad Association of a lettuce driving a tractor through a salad field. If you need a colouring picture featuring salads, or a tractor, you can download it here. ... Games And Activities About Nature In The Garden22/04/2009 20:33:00 Games And Activities About Nature In The Garden While The Foodies are not trying to educate about nature and the environment in general (there are loads of brilliant organisations for that). But everyone who wants to garden organically needs a basic understanding of the role of wildlife in a garden and how a natural balance establishes itself in nature. These activities help with that basic understanding. Spotted Pacman A simple pacman inspired game where a ladybird has to go... Games And Videos About Cooking22/04/2009 20:03:00 Games And Videos About Cooking These games and tools help children to understand the processes in preparing a meal or snack. How To Cook Instructionals A selection of video clips showing children how to do basic kitchen skills, like chopping safely, peel and grating. On the Food A Fact Of Life website http://www.foodafactoflife.org.uk/QuickLinks.aspx?contentType=3 Cooking Tasks A game where children have to help a fisherman's cat to prepare a salmon pasta m... Other Bits Of Online Fun19/04/2009 18:17:00 Other Bits Of Online Fun This section contains a mix of other useful bits and pieces you can find online. Agri Aware Incredible Edibles Catch The Veg game This is just a short bit of fun using arrow keys to catch veg being thrown at you. The website is set up for Irish schools so you have to select an Irish county to play for. You have to catch the veg, you get extra points for big veg, and points taken away if you catch a rotten vegetable. http://www.agriawar... Games About Being Healthy19/04/2009 17:40:00 Games About Being Healthy These games help children choose a healthy diet or understand why a diet needs to be varied and low in salt, sugar and fat. Building A Meal A multiple choice click or drag and drop exercise to choose a healthy lunchbox. Feedback given at the end. Minimal reading needed for game (can guess without labels) but need help to understand feedback. On the Food A Fact Of Life Website http://www.foodafactoflife.org.uk/Activity.aspx?siteId=14§ionId=61&conte... Games About How Things Grow19/04/2009 17:09:00 Games About How Things Grow These games help children to take in the elements needed to grow plants or care for animals. Potatoes An online quiz where children have to answer 5 questions about what makes potatoes grow, to make their potato onscreen grow tall. Requires someone to read the questions. On the Potatoes For Schools website http://www.potatoesforschools.org.uk/media/growgame/index.asp Video clips - a total video and broken into shorter elements - showing y... Basic Food Recognition Games19/04/2009 11:57:00 Basic Food Recognition Games These games and activities promote a very basic understanding of everyday foods, what groups they belong to and what they are called. Games Putting Food Into Categories A drag and drop game to categorise fruits and vegetables. From the Food Champs website: http://www.foodchamps.org/games/sg.html A drag and drop game to put foods into the right food group on an Eatwell Plate. On the Food A Fact Of Life website http://www.foodafact... Games And Activities About Where Food Comes From19/04/2009 11:11:00 Games And Activities About Where Food Comes From Here are some activities, games, video pieces and downloadables about how food is grown and processed before we eat it. Farm To Fork General Activities A simple interactive game where children add sun and rain, pick crops and take to the store. On the FoodChamps website http://www.foodchamps.org/games/f2f.htm Drag and drop activity to pick the source of each food during a days meals. From Food A Fact Of Life website... |