Health
Kids' Kitchen uses cooking as a platform for education and community action towards social change. We promote health and nutrition education through enriching after-school activities for children from under-resourced school districts and low-income neighborhoods in Washtenaw County. We are an organization comprised of University of Michigan students who lead baking activities with the youth at Community Action Network, Mentor2Youth, and Foundations Preschool. During these workshops, we teach developmentally appropriate cooking skills and nutrition to children ranging from ages 3-14. We develop lesson plans using recipes with ingredients that are familiar, nutritious, and inexpensive. Our lesson plans generate excitement for healthy food, as well as curiosity about what makes food good for us and why we need to eat healthfully. We plan hands-on activities that allow the children to do the preparation and cooking themselves. This independence and agency empowers the kids to become engaged in and take ownership of what they are putting into their bodies. Kids' Kitchen recognizes the importance of instilling healthy habits at young ages that will last for a lifetime, and we aim to capitalize on this to improve long-term health behaviors and outcomes.
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