Expired Cooking and Gardening with Children: Strategies to Build Healthy Relationships with Food

Explore ways to create excitement in children with relation to gardening and healthy foods in their educational environment.  Identify how cooking with children offers exciting moments that use open-ended materials which support children’s curiosity, creativity, discovery, decision-making, confidence, problem-solving, science, math, language, social and physical skills.  Enjoy moments of tangible idea implementation including mealtime rituals, gardening, and cooking with any age group.

KCF: II.A  Creating Positive Learning Experiences          CDA: II

Trainer: Dana Ellingson