Success StoryCooking Basics
Cooking Basics
Author: Samantha Gamblin
Planning Unit: Bullitt County CES
Major Program: 4-H Youth Development Programming
Plan of Work: Making Healthy Lifestyle Choices
Outcome: Initial Outcome
During no school days for Bullitt County, 4-H offers day camps for youth from 5-19 years old. Bullitt 4-H and the Bullitt County Family Resource contact work together to make the camps a success.4-H has many things to offer so there was much to choose from which makes it a new camp every month during the school year. During school clubs, youth were excited to learn about cooking and nutrition. So we decided to offer more cooking camps. During the morning hours basic skills of measuring, using a knife, cleaning your hands properly, and they would cook as a group. In the afternoon hours we would elaborate on the program and let them cook even more. The 4-Her's at the end of the day would have a county fair entry to use for the upcoming county fair. Twenty- five youth plan on using their projects to enter in the fair. Twenty-five who attended the camp improved their cooking skills, communication skills, team work, awareness of safety and youth learned much more about cooking and nutrition. 100% of the youth gained confidence in cooking and even prepared a meal for their parents at the end of the week. The group was divided into groups and had a task to complete: cutting vegetable for salad, making dessert, cooking macaroni and cheese, making bread and cutting the bread and cutting fruit. Then parents came and the kids served them their food.
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