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Stay Home Summer Camp 2020 Archives: Cooking Camp!

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Mamas Facing Forward Stay Home Summer Camp was a project I developed during the isolated summer of 2020. For each theme I provide a menu of options to choose from, including: virtual learning resources, easy craft & snack ideas, simple activities, books, and movies/TV.

Trust me, whether you do it for a full week or just for a day, there’s something magical about doing a bunch of activities that all share the same theme. In fact, even though my kids will be traveling and attending regular summer camp this year, they’ve also requested some Stay Home Camp – so stay tuned for a couple of new themes!! I’ve also added “field trip ideas” to themes from past years as well.

I hope these ideas will provide your family with a little fun – while at the same time making summer a bit easier for you!!

Love, Mariah

COOKING CAMP!

Our menu for this week is a little bit different! This week we have: ideas for learning, crafts and activities that are based on or involve food, ideas for things you can actually eat, and (of course!) screen time breaks that are on theme! I’ve also included a free printable you can hang up at home while you work on this theme.

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NEW! Field Trip Ideas:

  • To local parks with food features
  • To the grocery store
  • To a cooking store
  • To a farmers market or food truck
  • To a food court
  • To the library to get more books about cooking

Things To Learn:

Food-based Crafts & Activities:

  • Celery Science
    • Recommended materials: celery stalks with leaves, glasses, food coloring
    • Instructions: Prepare several glasses of colored water by adding food coloring. Put a freshly cut celery stalk with the leaves still attached in each glass. Set the experiment aside and watch what happens over the course of a few days!
  • Edible Marshmallow Play Dough
    • Recommended materials: large marshmallows, corn starch, coconut oil, neon food coloring
    • Instructions: OneLittleProject
  • Foodie Printables for Drawing and Coloring
  • Paper Ice Cream Cone
    • Recommended materials: construction paper, scissors, glue
    • Instructions: Cut out one triangle and several circles. Glue together to look like an ice cream cone. Use whatever other craft supplies you have on hand to add decorations!
  • Simple Paper Plate Watermelon
    • Recommended materials: paper plate, construction paper, glue
    • Instructions: Rip up red, green, and black construction paper – ripping the black into the smallest pieces. Glue pieces on to half of a paper plate to make it look like a slice of watermelon.
  • Vegetable Stamping        
    • Recommended materials: paper, paint, the ends of vegetables you would usually throw away

Things You Can Actually Eat!

  • Bake Something Together
    • Instructions: Get out your aprons and bake your favorite recipe together! Whether it has a lot of ingredients or it’s a super simple muffin mix, my kids always seem to enjoy baking.
  • Funny Animal Faces Toast Treats
    • Recommended materials: bread, Nutella/cream cheese/peanut butter, banana, strawberries, blueberries
  • No Churn Ice Cream
    • Recommended materials: heavy whipping cream, sweetened condensed milk, flavoring of your choice, mixer
    • Instructions: Boulder Locavore
  • Rainbow Pasta
    • Recommended materials: pasta, food coloring
  • Rainbow Toast
  • Taste Tray Lunch
    • Recommended materials: cupcake tin, lots of different foods to taste
    • Instructions: Serve a tasting lunch in a fun way – in a cupcake tin! Fill each spot with something different to taste. Make sure to have a few favorites and a few new items to try.

Time For A Break!

Need more inspiration? Check out the Mamas Facing Forward Stay Home Summer Camp Archives!

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Mariah is a writer, patient advocate, and mom of three living with rheumatoid arthritis and Hashimoto’s thyroiditis. After learning firsthand how challenging and lonely it can be to face pregnancy and motherhood with chronic illness, Mariah became passionate about supporting women with chronic illness who are or want to become mothers. She launched Mamas Facing Forward in 2015 as a private Facebook support group, followed by this website in 2018.

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