Our kids classes are designed for kids to practice kitchen skills, learn about kitchen equipment, and include food and personal safety. The kid friendly recipes are chosen so that the kids can do them themselves once they get home. They get to eat or take home their own creations. Fostering independence is a main goal, as is having fun.
Our menus emphasize fresh ingredients, locally grown when possible. We serve fresh fruit plus milk or water with all menus. Nutrition education is a major component of our curriculums. We are devotees of Michael Pollan’s adage “Eat Real Food. Mostly Plants. Not Too Much.”
Kids Cook!
Kids Cook! classes are open to the public and are held at several local venues including Little Rock Montessori School, Episcopal Collegiate School and Eggshells Kitchen Company. Current classes are listed on the Class Schedule page or find Kids Cook! on Facebook.
SPORK!
SPORK is a nutrition-based, hands-on cooking program for middle school kids and their families. Kids Cook! collaborated with a Clinton School of Public Service graduate student team, Pulaski County Youth Services and Arkansas Children’s Hospital to develop the cooking program which includes nutrition sessions for parents and a family meal made entirely by the kids. Now in its twelfth year, the program has been delivered 60 times in twenty Central Arkansas schools, after school programs and libraries and has reached over 750 kids and their families. In 2021 SPORK will be held at the Arts & Science Center for Southeast Arkansas in Pine Bluff.
For specific information on how to bring SPORK! to your school or organization, please contact us.
Kids Cookin’ for a Cause!
Our Kids Cookin’ for a Cause! community service program gives kids the opportunity to practice their kitchen skills while earning community service hours. Kids bake or cook and the food produced is donated to Potluck Food Rescue, Arkansas’ food rescue organization, for kids served by Potluck’s Kids Pantry. Since Nov 2008, over 1,200 kids, ranging from Kindergarten to 12th grade from 17 schools, churches and community organizations have participated in this project. They have produced an estimated 12,000 pounds of food, enough for over 19,000 meals for hungry kids.
Potluck serves community food programs throughout central Arkansas and the state including: children’s programs, women’s emergency shelters, soup kitchens, homeless shelters, organizations serving displaced veterans and Hispanic families, senior day centers and food pantries.
To learn more about this program and how you can bring it to your group or school, please contact us.
