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You can do a lot more with a pumpkin than carve it.

Let’s incorporate some learning. Weigh your pumpkin. Bring a bathroom scale to your classroom. If your pumpkin is big, put it directly on the scale to weigh it. If it’s not so big, ask someone to stand on the scale, note their weight, hand them the pumpkin and show children how to do subtraction to figure out […]

Classroom Cooking Activity: No Bake Pumpkin Pie!

It’s holiday time and nothing means Thanksgiving like a good pumpkin pie. Here is a fun activity you can do with your students, no baking required! Ingredients: Vanilla Instant Pudding (prepared) Canned Pumpkin Whipped Topping Mini Graham Cracker Crusts Make sure you have enough of each ingredient for each child in your class. To prepare, […]

Let Cooking in the Classroom be a Year-Round Experience!

Cooking with kids is fun! The great thing about cooking with young children is it fosters healthy eating attitudes from an early age, while encouraging thinking about how things grow and then change in the cooking process. Don’t know where to start? Why not at the beginning! “Cooking with kids is not just about ingredients, […]