Seedlings Gallery: Home Kitchen

$150,000 $150,000

In the play kitchen, unleash your culinary genius or just rustle up a pretend snack . Visitors use pretend food, including produce harvested and transported from the play farm area, in their cooking-themed imaginative play—washing, prepping, chopping. Child-safe versions of kitchen tools and appliances help give a real feel to the culinary play. Cooking, including pretend cooking, is an important intergenerational bonding experience, and is among the first connections to food and agriculture that most people experience.

Exhibit Experiences

GIANT VEGETABLES

Come and get it! Once the play-food feast is ready, it’s time for the pretend chefs to present their culinary creations. Everyone is family at this dining table, which includes seating for six along with full complement of plates, bowls, cups, and utensils. As families gather around the table to enjoy, adults get in on the pretend play as dinner guests, or even play as the “hungry kids” while their children bring home the literal bacon.

Carts Fit For A Child

Meet me at the giant fork—you can’t miss it! This giant fork elevates the humble but hard-working utensil into an object of art, and also makes a strong statement to set the scene for the eating-themed play that happens below.