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Find out where food comes from
Websites to visit
Meet farmer Henry and take a tour of his farm
See lots of fresh vegetables at a market
Find out how farmers grow potatoes
See dairy cows that produce milk on a farm in the US
How does grass turn into milk?
Watch a video clip about how bread is baked in a factory
Fun with food
Websites to visit
Match pairs of fruits and vegetables
Watch children play a healthy snack game
Go on a fruit and vegetable safari in a grocery store
Find out how to grow food you can eat
Try a picture matching food game
Scroll down and click on "Where does our food come from?"
Fun games and activities about fruit and vegetables
Learn about food and being healthy with games and recipes
NB This American website uses some different food names, for example, eggplant and zucchini are used instead of aubergines and courgettes.
Food and farming printables
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Pictures of food to print out and colour
Print out an activity book about food and farming
Scroll down and click on "Let's Talk Farming Fun Booklet". (NB Please make sure you click on the booklet for children under 7.)
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About this book
My first book about
My first book about food
- A charming and informative book that answers questions such as “What is pasta?”, “Where does milk come from?” and “How do vegetables grow?”, and explores concepts such as going shopping, life on a farm and cooking healthy meals.
- With over 120 stickers of common fruits, vegetables, fish, meats and other foods that help children learn in a fun, interactive way.
- Includes internet links to age-appropriate websites with games and activities.
- Also available as a hardback library edition with no stickers and with a contents page and index.
Felicity Brooks
Felicity Brooks is an Editorial Director and writer at Usborne Publishing. She studied English and Drama at Exeter University and worked as an actor, teacher and lexicographer before starting work in children’s publishing in the late 1980s. She has written and edited hundreds of children’s titles, including stories and novelty books for pre-schoolers and books about history, geography, languages, science, maths, nature and the arts. Her books have won the TES Senior Information Book Award, the Aventis Science Books Prize, the SLA Information Book Award, the Sheffield Baby Books Award and Practical Pre-school Gold and Silver Awards.
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