Growing Food Is Fun: Yummy for Your Tummy
Growing Food Is Fun: Yummy for Your Tummy introduces young children to where food comes from and the different ways it can be grown and produced. Through age-appropriate stories, visuals, guided conversations, and hands-on exploration, children begin developing the vocabulary and awareness needed to ask questions about their food and make thoughtful food choices with their families.
Gardening experiences allow children to explore soil, seeds, plants, fruits, and vegetables while observing how food grows. Activities may include planting, tending a small garden, examining fresh foods, and following a plant’s journey from seed to harvest.
The program may be delivered in collaboration with gardening, agricultural, health, or community partners who can help children experience food production firsthand. By connecting food awareness with gardening, the program encourages curiosity, healthy habits, and an appreciation for the people and natural resources involved in producing food.
Learning and Standards Alignment
Growing Food Is Fun: Yummy for Your Tummy supports the California Preschool/Transitional Kindergarten Learning Foundations in Science, Health, Language and Literacy Development, Mathematics, Physical Development, and Social and Emotional Development. For kindergarten learners, program activities are designed to support relevant California Common Core State Standards, California Next Generation Science Standards, and California Health Education Content Standards.
Help Young Children Discover Where Food Comes From
Give young learners opportunities to explore how food grows, participate in hands-on gardening, and begin making meaningful connections between food, health, people, and the environment. KEEPS Global welcomes early childhood centers, home-based programs, TK and kindergarten classrooms, schools, community organizations, gardening programs, and agricultural partners interested in bringing this learning experience to children.