Cooking And Gardening For Young Children.
Cooking And Gardening For Young Children.
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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19/04/2009 10:59:00
There are some lovely materials around to help children understand how things grow and how children can grow things themselves.
Grandad The Greengrocer Interactive Book by Phunky Foods
Cd rom for PC or whiteboard. With or without audio accompaniment, all about Emily’s granddad who grows fruits and vegetables. Comes with 8 pdf worksheets, with wordsearch, banana sourcing sequencing exercise, food provenance activity, 8 suggested activities based on the book, fruit and veg jokes, and food anagrams.
Available from Phunky Foods website http://www.phunkyfoods.co.uk/store/products-4.html
The Little Book Of Growing Things
By Sally Featherstone
You can grow something in every setting! This book helps you to offer the magic of plants and flowers even in the most difficult situations. Seeds, pips, stones and cuttings are all explored, and there are suggestions for hanging baskets, window boxes and growing your own food.
Available from http://www.acblack.com/children/default.asp?dept_id=9&sec=4&artid=360 and follow the link for Little Books on the left hand menu. Or from most booksellers.
Gardening With Young Children
By Beatrys Lockie
This book comes from the perspective of just getting children outdoors doing things. A mixture of planting activities, songs (with music and words provided), games to play, crafts to make with natural materials, stories and poems about minibeasts and birds etc. Activities are divided into the four seasons. Lots of black and white illustrations and photographs. Very sweet book provides some unusual ideas for children 3-7.
Growing Vegetables Is Fun
By Emma Cooper
This is an A4, hardback magazine style (“bookazine”) children's guide to growing fresh, organic vegetables from seed, and contains practical advice, trivia, games and jokes. 10 FREE PACKETS OF SEEDS are supplied in the bag, so you can get cracking straight away. Also includes a scrapbook section where kids can chart their progress by writing a diary, drawing pictures, colouring in and sticking in photos of their vegetables. Quite a nice starting point if you’re moving your children in to manageable growing projects.
Available for £9.99 from Amazon
RSPB First Book Of Garden Wildlife
By RSPB
Great general introduction to 20 common garden animals birds and insects. Children have to guess what the creature is using clues and then turn the page to find the answer.
Available from good booksellers.
Ready, Set, Grow!
By Suzanne Frutig Bales
Includes project ideas for quick growing plants and vegetables, along with gardening tips and information on beneficial bugs.
Available from good booksellers.
New Junior Garden - Cool Stuff For Kids By Felder Rushing
Aimed at child readers. Includes 38 tested and approved projects for young gardeners aged 6 to 14 years. More than 50 illustrations energise the book. All projects include around-the-house materials. It teaches how to create garden spaces - from a recycled pop bottle planter to a raised garden bed. Long-term projects are paired with short-term crafts. Step-by-step instructions and illustrations, plus colour photographs of finished projects are provided.
Available from good booksellers
Nature School by Mick Manning and Brita Granstrom
This book is a great illustrated guide to getting started studying nature. Activities for watching wildlife, how seeds work, making a pond, animal homes etc. Great if you are encouraging wildlife into your school garden or visiting a mixed farm.
Available from: widely available from booksellers.
Eddie's Garden And How To Make Things Grow
by Sarah Garland
Eddie learns how a garden grows by doing it himself, and we find out how to follow suit in the tips at the back. A lovely story with a mum helping her son and his toddler sister to plant a garden from seed.
Available from: widely available from booksellers.
The World Came To My Place Today
by Jo Readman and Ley Honor Roberts This book is part of a series by The Eden Project and it is utterly charming. In it George and Flora are visiting their Grandpa when Flora gets chickenpox. To allay George's boredom at having to stay in, Grandpa brings the world to George by explaining where all the foods in his normal day come from. Beautifully illustrated as well as educational, this is a lovely read. Available from: most booksellers.
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