Farm to Table

For kids who dare to bring their “food vision” to life!

We’ll learn about different food sources and the science behind them, create our own dishes, and plan to set up a “Farm to Table” Café. Each session, students will visit a farm (through watching a quick video or virtual field trips to a farm), think of different dishes they can make with the ingredient of the day, use arts and crafts materials to make a prototype of their dish, and share. They can then add all their inventions to a unique menu and set up a healthy “farm to table” café. What’s a fruit and what’s a vegetable? What is sustainable fishing? Where does rice come from? How do make cheese? And so much more…

This is a wonderful program combining nature science and creative STEM making.

Recommended for ages 3-10

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FORMAT After school, Holiday Camps, Summer Camps, Enrichment Classes

RECOMMENDED # OF SESSIONS: 1 to 20 Sessions based on the program

LEARN ABOUT

Food Science
Maker, craft, and motor skills
Pretend play and Social skills (younger kids)
Design Thinking and Robotics (older kids)

More about the program:

We adapt the program based on the age of our participants and their interests.

For our younger participants, we focus on simple science concepts and developmentally appropriative crafting techniques to make pretend food. We then engage in pretend play, visiting each other cafes and playing with pretend money.

For our older participants, we focus on more advance science concepts and integrate more advanced crafting techniques, robotics, and design thinking as they build prototypes of their ideas. For example, students may design their own delivery robot for their cafe, plant seeds and grow real food, build conveyer belts as a mechanism to serve food, and think like an inventor and design an invention to save “ugly” fruits and vegetables to go to waste!

Partners who have brought this program into their community:

PS 33 School in New York City has implemented this program as one of their enrichment classes for their first graders year over year since 2019
Museum of the City of New York brought this program to their museum as their Spring Break Holiday program and Summer Camp. We customized the curriculum and connected the program to their Food in City exhibition. Check out the Lookbook from this program
Southampton Arts Center brought this program to their museum as a family event and live exhibition
Bank Street School for Children brought this program to their community at their Fall Fair
The GIANT Room has offered this program to our community online and in person more than 20 times