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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How to make a Lacewing Hotel11/05/2012 11:42:00 How to Make a Lacewing Hotel This is a great project to be working on over the summer. We found it over at Garden Organic, the national charity for organic growing. They show you how to make a simple lacewing hotel from a plastic drink bottle. Lacewings can eat up to an incredible 10,000 aphids during their lifetime so are to be encouraged in any organic garden. They hibernate in September and Oc... How to Grow Carrot Tops10/05/2012 14:44:00 How to Grow Carrot Tops Don't throw those carrot tops away. We found this clever way to reuse them over at Fidgety Fingers. Although you can't grow carrots from the tops, you can grow leaves which can then be used as a nutritious addition to your summer salads. This is the perfect project for kids. Simply pop the top into a saucer of water, watch then grow and enjoy. You can find the instructions here. ... Signs Of Spring Spotting Sheet17/03/2011 12:54:00 Signs Of Spring Spotting Sheet If you're trying to get children to observe the seasons changing in the garden or nearby countryside, this spotting sheet is perfect. Nine spring signs for children to find and identify. The sheet was devised by Dawn Isaac of Little Green Fingers The sheet can be found here. If clicking it doesn't successfully open the sheet on your browser, instead try right clicking and select 'save target as' and save it to a folder in your computer, you will th... Making Paper Pots17/03/2011 11:43:00 Making Paper Pots This video from Victoriana Nursery shows how some KS1 children make their own seed pots out of paper, using a pot making tool. The video also contains a discussion of carrots and how they grow, so if you are just looking for the paper pots section, the activity starts at 4 mins 10 secs. If you don't have a paper pot maker, or enough of them for your group of children, here's a video from Bevoworks of how you can make one using a glass or plastic tumbler. ... Measuring In The Garden - Hand & Feet Estimating10/02/2011 12:10:00 You Are The Ruler - Measuring In The Garden - Seed Depths and Widths, Bed Sizes A lot of garden measuring is done by eye, by pacing or by using hands and pencils rather than with a ruler to hand. This activity from My First Garden (a site for children developed bt the University of Illinois) teaches children to measure their body parts in order to be able to use that information for their garden planting. Estimating is a core mathematical skill and this idea makes it easy to est... Cress Head in a yoghurt pot08/02/2011 12:15:00 Cress Head In A Yoghurt Pot A fun alternative way to grow a cress head, this version uses a yoghurt pot which the children draw or paint a face onto. It's one of the make and colour activities from the lovely new Cbeebies show Mr Bloom's nursery. There are good basic printable picture instructions on the Cbeebies instruction page. ... Growing A Bean - KS1 lesson plan with links09/02/2010 12:10:00 My Farm Food Lesson Plan for Growing Beans The My Farm Food website was set up by the My School Lunch team for a group of local authorities and has lots of useful resources on it. One of them is a formalised KS1 lesson plan for children to grow a bean and take records about their growth. The lesson plan is here and you need to click on "Download Key Stage 1 Lesson 2 Plan" ... Growing A Potato Head19/01/2010 12:37:00 Growing A Potato Head Agri Aware's site (www.agriaware.ie) has simple and clear instructions on how to make a potato head and grow grass hair on it. The instructions are on a downloadable pdf here.... Get Your Hands Dirty19/06/2009 13:02:00 Get Your Hands Dirty This is a pack which you can download from the Growing Schools site. You can ask to be sent a nice hard card A4 box folder to keep all the resources in, and then download and print the documents you want to put in the folder. The pack covers growing things in containers, small bits of land and greenhouses, and keeping a variety of animals for education and food production on school grounds . To get the ringbinder box folder email schoolfarmsnetwork@farmgarden.... Growing Wheat Seeds19/04/2009 11:24:00 Growing Wheat Seeds The Grain Chain website has a lesson plan for two sessions to explore growing wheat seeds. The lessons explore what is needed to make a seed grow, and encourages observation over several days to see what happens to the seeds. Industry sponsored. Here's the link to the lesson plan: http://www.grainchain.com/Teachers/ks1/Growing-our-food/Default.aspx... |