New York’s Staten Island. With a $15,000 grant from the Nissan Foundation, the Staten Island Children’s Museum will be growing its family-friendly drop-in culinary classes.
Families may cook nutritious snacks and build memories at the kitchen table when they participate in the Kidz Cook program. The curriculum helps kids acquire critical abilities like numeracy, fine motor coordination, and language development by utilizing cooking as an enjoyable, hands-on activity.
The museum will take this popular family program into nearby schools with the help of the Nissan Foundation, giving even more kids the chance to participate in these instructive cooking activities.
Food will be used as a tool to improve art and literacy skills, raise cultural awareness, and build community ties when the initiative is included into school curricula.
The Staten Island Children’s Museum’s executive director, Dina Rosenthal, expressed her sincere gratitude to the Nissan Foundation for their kind donation. With the help of this grant, we will be able to broaden our culinary curriculum and give more attention to the cultural relevance and historical background of the dishes we study.
Children will gain useful skills like language, numeracy, and fine motor coordination in addition to learning about other cuisines through these practical cooking activities. Families may bond over food, and this program gives kids a better awareness of the world while fostering an appreciation for the customs that go into the cuisine we eat.
PS 69 in New Springville is the site of the program’s current experiment, and it will eventually spread to other schools. To learn more about these cost-effective, educational activities, please get in touch with the museum at [email protected].
At the Staten Island Children’s Museum’s Family Preparedness Day, children could create their own superhero capes, fusing education with enjoyment. 8 September 2024. (Mike Matteo/Staten Island Advance)Mike Matteo/Staten Island Advance
About the museum
Due to an HVAC construction project, the Staten Island Children’s Museum will not be open until January 2025. To find out where museum memberships can grant free admission to reciprocal local institutions during the shutdown, visit the Museum Happenings page.
Tickets for 2025 can be purchased using the Get Tickets portal. Also available is the reservation portal for the 2025 Field Trip. Reach out to [email protected] to arrange a program for the community or school in the fall of 2024.
Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Livingston, is home to the Staten Island Children’s Museum. Call 718-273-2060, send an email to [email protected], or visit visitsichildrensmuseum.org for additional information.
With assistance from the Staten Island delegation to the NYC Council, the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs provides public monies to support the running of the Staten Island Children’s Museum, which is situated in a facility owned by the City of New York. The NYS Council on the Arts, corporations, foundations, trustees, and members also contribute significantly to the organization’s operations.
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