Kids Academy
Kids Just Want To Have Fun!
It’s essential to keep those little ones entertained so that you can enjoy a day of total food indulgence, that’s why Sheffield Food Festival provides FREE kids activities throughout the weekend, with plenty to keep little hands and minds occupied. Visit Millenium Square to have your photo taken on the Whirlow Hall Farm tractor, learn about their bees and do some craft activities. Then join us in the Winter Garden between 11am and 3pm each day for these great hands-on activities...
In our cooking classes at the Kids Arts Academy the emphasis is on having fun and being creative with food. For each cooking lesson we follow a recipe that the children put together to create their own dish to take home for their dinner – although we cannot guarantee that they won’t have been sampled by your child at some stage before they make it home! One of the favourite recipes from our programme is our lemon drizzle cake. We’ve shared it with you here, and if you tweet the finished cake to @KidsArtsAcademy you’ll be in with a chance of winning a free day at our cooking club during the school holidays. For those of you who might be daunted at the prospect of venturing into the zone of cooking with kids (which is fair enough as it can get chaotic and messy) plan ahead to make it a smoother and cleaner time – prepare a clean and clear workspace, warm soapy cloths for sticky fingers, and jobs the kids can do for you if there’s a tricky bit coming up.
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Lemon Drizzle Cake
Mr & Mrs Potato Head
Fun Fimo Food!
Biscuit decorating with Free Cakes for Kids
A Sheffield Food Festival twist to everyone’s playtime favourite, everything you need to make a crazy fruit and veg head will be provided. There will be fruit & veg head selfies to share on social media, and a competition for the best head ever! Activity provided by Regather & Youth Discovery Ventures, with help from the European Volunteering Service team.
Food for the Future
How do you make a labgrown burger? Will we all be eating insects by 2050? What would we have left to eat if bees died out? Come and find out with the Sheffield Branch of the British Science Association! Join us to learn about key issues and trends in food sustainability, take part in fun hands-on activities and even design your very own future food!
Ignite Imaginations will be running a fun fimo activity for children and adults in the Winter Gardens. Pop along and make your ‘yummy’ food badge, keyring or fridge magnet which you can take home and bake.
Messy, Yummy, Fun!
Join Proove Pizza for some Messy, Yummy, Fun! Find out all about pizza and have a go at making your own. The best bit is that you get to eat it too! Make your own pizza £4.50. Make a pizza dolce £3. Make both £6.
Free Cakes for Kids Sheffield will be running fun and tasty biscuit decorating activities in the Winter Gardens for kids of all ages! You can get involved in the fun and decorate biscuits with icing, sprinkles and sweet treats - and take them home to enjoy.
Kids seed planting activity
Kids love growing their own veg. Once they have grown their own they are more likely to eat them and they’ll have learned a little bit about where food comes from. So come and join the Heeley City Farm team where kids can decorate their own pot and plant some veggie seeds to take home. Even if you don’t have a garden you can grow your own delicious vegetables in a window box or on a balcony. It’s easy!
Please note that all children must be accompanied by an adult to take part in activities.
EQUIPMENT Cake tin Measuring scales Large mixing bowl 1 teaspoon 2 tablespoons 1 fork
INGREDIENTS (SERVES SIX) Cake Sugar, 150g Margarine, 150g Eggs, 2 Lemon juice, 3 tsp Icing Sugar, 2 tbsp Lemon juice, 4 tbsp
METHOD Getting an adult to preheat the oven to 180° C, grease the cake tin with butter or line it with greaseproof paper. Weigh the flour, margarine, and sugar into a mixing bowl, and combine them well together. Crack in the eggs and add the lemon juice before folding the mixture together. Pour the mixture into the cake tin evenly and bake in the oven for 30 minutes. While the cake is baking, make the icing for the cake by mixing the sugar and the lemon juice together into a syrup. When the cake has been taken out of the oven, get an adult to help prong the cake all over with a fork before drizzling the syrup all over and letting it soak in. To check that the cake is ready, try the baked cake test. Simply use a knife to pierce the middle. If the blade comes out clean, the cake is cooked! Our cooking classes run from Monday to Friday at afterschool clubs in term time throughout Sheffield; and our OFSTEDregistered holiday club is open from 8.30am–5.30pm during the holidays. Download our activity timetable and book online at our website: www.kidsartsacademy.co.uk WWW.SHEFFIELDFOODFESTIVAL.CO.UK | 57