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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Making A Bird Feeder20/04/2012 09:37:00 Making A Bird Feeder This lovely video comes from Dawn Isaac over at Little Green Fingers. Her adorable three year old Archie was off school with chicken pox and is showing us all how to make a bird feeder. If he can do it, so can we! There are also written instructions for making the feeder on the same article. Find both here.... Flower Collage Papier Mache Cups11/04/2011 14:33:00 Flower Collage Papier Mache Cups This little project was one of the activities we did at the Orleton School infants gardening club. Different tasks were done over several weeks, so that there was no waiting for glue to dry, and no one got bored. Each session therefore was only about 10 minutes and then they went on to other gardening jobs. As the club is after school and the children are little you have to cater for low levels of concentration. We recycled some washed used ... Keeping Chickens In Your Back Garden19/05/2010 18:52:00 Keeping Chickens In Your Back Garden This Shropshire family have recently started keeping chickens in their back garden. The children and their mum show us their hens, Princess Emily and Bryony, and explain what they have to do to take care of them. ... Mushroom Crate Gardens09/02/2010 09:55:00 Mushroom Crate Gardens In 2008 the Chelsea Award winnning nursery The Cottage Herbery joined in a schools and families project in Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire. The town of Tenbury was celebrating its 150th Annual Show. Schools, children's centres and community groups worked together to create all kinds of wonderful things for the show. Several primary schools in the area took part in a growing project with Kim Hurst from The Cottage Herbery, to create mini gardens in mushroom crates - the ho... 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 ... Planting Potatoes In A Nursery School12/01/2010 12:33:00 Planting Potatoes At Nottingham Nursery School Nottingham Nursery School is a purpose built nursery education and daycare facility in Radford in Nottingham. As part of the set up of their garden they insisted on creating a large planting area, which they call "The Allotment". They have lots of plans to develop the garden but for this first year they are allowing the children to explore the new space without the pressure of having to grow lots of new things. Radford is an inne... Learning Basic Gardening Skills In A Nursery12/01/2010 12:30:00 Learning Basic Gardening Skills At Nottingham Nursery School Nottingham Nursery School is a daycare, education and training centre in Radford in Nottingham. Last year they built a large planting area which they call "The Allotment". It is a large plot which will eventually be divided into three or four beds with stepping stones or paths inbetween to grow food for the Nursery's own kitchen, which provides hot food cooked on site every day. The staff have big plans to develop mo... Backyard Grow Your Own Dinner Project12/01/2010 12:26:00 Backyard Grow Your Own Dinner Project Jo Watts is a childminder in Nottingham. She cares for pre-school and older children, and lives in a typical city home with a backyard. She is very interested in helping the children to get involved in growing but without a large garden and only a paved area to work with, she needed to get a bit creative. In 2008 she applied to a small grant scheme run by her local Early Years Unit with her idea called "Grow Your Own Dinner". The applicatio... Make A Stack-a-box Pond12/01/2010 12:24:00 Make A Stack A Box Pond Ponds are brilliant things for gardeners. They encourage a range of wildlife to come into your garden which might otherwise not be there. Minibeasts which help to eat your garden pests, which are beautiful to look at, and are fascinating for children to study. If you're lucky enough to encourage a frog or toad into your pond, they can help with your slug population, and birds will appreciate the water too. However for most people in an ordinary garden, a... Paddling For Potatoes12/01/2010 12:21:00 Paddling For Potatoes Potatoes are a great crop to grow with children, because they are easy to grow and can be grown in a wide variety of containers as well as in the ground. But when it comes to harvesting the potatoes, how creative can you really get? Well, Jo Watts, a childminder from Nottingham, came up with a novel way to bring lots of fun play into their potato harvest. Jo and her children grew their potatoes in a tall potato bag, which can be bought from most gardening shops o... Planting Runner Beans At Orleton School12/01/2010 12:15:00 Planting Runner Beans At Orleton Primary School Orleton School is a primary school in rural Herefordshire. The school recently became a flagship school for the Food For Life programme. As a flagship school the children are very involved with their food, growing some fruits and vegetables for the school kitchen, learning how to make healthy snacks, joining in a cookery club, and visiting local farms. In 2009 a local theatre company performed Jack and the Beanstalk and in the wee... Ice Mobiles11/01/2010 16:31:00 Making Ice Mobiles This lovely idea came from Dawn Isaac who writes the fab Little Green Fingers Blog. An ice mobile freezes small interesting items to hang from a tree. It is a great activity for winter when the temperature is freezing outside during the night, although you can cheat with a freezer on any very cold winter day. In the one in the picture, Dawn's children froze rosehips "and some glitter, because there's always room for a little bling".... |