Children and families can take part in the fun with stories and science activities all about food! Join us each hour for new kid-friendly science experiments and a story time read aloud with a book raffle. Activities include candy geology, fruit batteries, and even a chance to extract some DNA!
Activity Schedule:
Noon – Cutlery and Connection
Readings:
Spoon, Amy Krause Rosenthal
Measuring Up, Lily LaMotte
Maddi’s Fridge, Lois Vandt
Activity:
Water Xylophone – Make some music with water and a spoon!
Cutlery Design – Design your own eating utensils!
1 p.m. – Robots in Space!
Readings:
Boy + Bot, Ame Dykeman
MoustronautCakes in Space: A Not So Impossible Story, Phillip Reeve (excerpt, time depending)
Activities:
Cereal Iron – we’re looking for iron on Psyche, but where else can we find it?
Candy Bar Strata – Can candy show us what’s inside an asteroid? Or our planet?
2 p.m. – Food For All Ages!
Readings:
Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl (excerpt)
Bee-Bim Bop!, Linda Sue Park
Activity:
Fruit Power – what’s the difference between a lemon and a battery? Let’s find out!
3 p.m. – Sustainability and Food Security
Readings:
Cactus Hotel, Brenda Guiberson
Sign of the Seahorse, Graeme Base (excerpt)
What If There Were No Bees?, Suzanne Slade
Activity:
Egg Carton Seedlings – Plant your own seed and watch it grow!
4 p.m. – Painting with Pigments
Readings:
Kalamata’s Kitchen, Sarah Thomas
Feast for 10, Kathryn Fallwell
Soul Food Sunday, Winsome Bigham
Activities:
Spice Paintings – Paint with spices and food pigments!
5 p.m. – Community, Collaboration, and Food Stories
Readings:
Hungry Johnny, Cheryl Minnema
Watercress, Andrea Wang
Tomatoes for Neela, Padma Lakshimi
Activity:
Strawberry DNA Extraction – See DNA with your very own eyes!