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Neighbors | Submitted.Tyra Elliot is pictured posing with her snack. She used a lot of green peppers on her pizza art creation at the Tot Chefs event at Boardman.
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Neighbors | Submitted.West Boulevard Elementary School recently had their Tot Chef program. The program is designed to teach children how to make healthy snacks. Boardman's food service department plans to offer the program next year to fourth-graders at Center Intermediate School, and classes are planned for Robinwood Lane Elementary School sometime after spring break. Food Services Director Natalie Winkle is pictured with a class at West Boulevard Elementary School.
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Neighbors | Submitted.Tyler Gulosh posed with his pizza art creation at the Tot Chefs after school program at Boardman. The program is designed to help children learn how to make healthy snacks.
Boardman School District’s food service department is convinced showing children how to eat healthy starts with teaching them to prepare their own healthy snacks.
To aid in that goal, the Tot Chef after school program began several years ago, with a grant.
This month, students from West Boulevard Elementary and Market Street Elementary put on their chef hats or aprons to create their own version of pizza art—and to come up with sweet or savory burritos. As many as 30 fourth-grade students per school sign up for the after school classes that run once per week for six weeks. Robinwood classes are still being planned after the spring break.
“The idea for the class is to give students the ability to prepare nutritious snacks, so when they go home from school and are starving, they can prepare something healthy instead of grabbing a bag of cookies or chips,” Director of Food Services Natalie Winkle said. “We plan to offer this again for fourth-graders next year, at Center Intermediate. Coordinating it should be a bit easier too, all at one building.”