Interested in our enrichment program coming to your school?
The best way to bring Rainy Day Dinner Club to your enrichment program is to request it through your school's PTA.
The best way to bring Rainy Day Dinner Club to your enrichment program is to request it through your school's PTA.
Each week, students learn basic cooking skills while making dinner for their family!
We use the perspective of food, cooking, and nutrition to learn about geography, math skills, science, and culture, while helping kids develop a lifelong love of fresh ingredients. Our hands-on cooking classes are fun and delicious, and are a wonderful way to develop enthusiasm for the kitchen, while practicing knife skills and kitchen safety.
Each dish feeds a family of 4-6 and goes home in oven-ready cookware with baking instructions. Our menu changes seasonally, you can check out the current menu here. or check out our sample menu here.
WHERE: No kitchen or special equipment is needed to have our Dinner Club at your school. Many of our classes are held in the teacher/staff break rooms, art/science rooms. We bring everything we need in, including cleaning supplies. After class, we sweep and clean leaving the space exactly as we found it, just cleaner!
What we need:
WHEN: 90 mins + 10-15 minutes for snack and picking up the students after school. Sessions can run anywhere from 8 -15 weeks. (For shorter sessions, we will need to time them to fit in with our menu)
WHO: Our typical grade range is 2nd-4th. However, we can offer 3rd - 5th or 5th - 8th grades. Occasionally in the spring we offer classes to 1st-3rd graders. Please reach out via email to discuss the options.
COST: Our program is $65 per class however, for public schools that provide a free space or rental waiver, we offer a 25% discount $48 per class this includes all materials, ingredients, and feeds a family of 4- 6. This does not include credit card fees, school fees, or the fees for the school’s preferred registration platform.
CLASS SIZE:
Small rooms: Our minimum is 10 paying students, and our maximum is 12
Large rooms: Our minimum is 16 paying students, and our maximum is 18
SCHOLARSHIPS: We offer 1 full or 2 half scholarships for every 10 paying students, per session.
WHERE: We are located in the Queen Anne neighborhood of Seattle. We typically work with schools within 15 miles of our location. For schools outside the 15 mile radius, there is a $30 mileage and wages charge per class that can be divided over the parent registration costs or paid by the PTA or schools. For Schools over 20miles or more it is $50.
REGISTRATION: Schools are welcome to manage their own registration however we can use 6cricket and Homeroom as well.
This is what one of our parents recently emailed us. "We can't thank you enough for all you have taught and shared with us during this winter cooking class at McDonald! [...] The meals definitely warmed our bellies and filled our hearts!"
You can find more information on my background and mission here.
We use the perspective of food, cooking, and nutrition to learn about geography, math skills, science, and culture, while helping kids develop a lifelong love of fresh ingredients. Our hands-on cooking classes are fun and delicious, and are a wonderful way to develop enthusiasm for the kitchen, while practicing knife skills and kitchen safety.
Each dish feeds a family of 4-6 and goes home in oven-ready cookware with baking instructions. Our menu changes seasonally, you can check out the current menu here. or check out our sample menu here.
WHERE: No kitchen or special equipment is needed to have our Dinner Club at your school. Many of our classes are held in the teacher/staff break rooms, art/science rooms. We bring everything we need in, including cleaning supplies. After class, we sweep and clean leaving the space exactly as we found it, just cleaner!
What we need:
- Early access for setting up (40 mins before and after class for set up and clean up).
- ADA access
- non-carpeted space
- electricity
- 4-7 tables that can seat 2 or more kids at a time (individual style desks won't work). Roughly 2sq ft of space per student.
- a sink
- garbage
WHEN: 90 mins + 10-15 minutes for snack and picking up the students after school. Sessions can run anywhere from 8 -15 weeks. (For shorter sessions, we will need to time them to fit in with our menu)
WHO: Our typical grade range is 2nd-4th. However, we can offer 3rd - 5th or 5th - 8th grades. Occasionally in the spring we offer classes to 1st-3rd graders. Please reach out via email to discuss the options.
COST: Our program is $65 per class however, for public schools that provide a free space or rental waiver, we offer a 25% discount $48 per class this includes all materials, ingredients, and feeds a family of 4- 6. This does not include credit card fees, school fees, or the fees for the school’s preferred registration platform.
CLASS SIZE:
Small rooms: Our minimum is 10 paying students, and our maximum is 12
Large rooms: Our minimum is 16 paying students, and our maximum is 18
SCHOLARSHIPS: We offer 1 full or 2 half scholarships for every 10 paying students, per session.
WHERE: We are located in the Queen Anne neighborhood of Seattle. We typically work with schools within 15 miles of our location. For schools outside the 15 mile radius, there is a $30 mileage and wages charge per class that can be divided over the parent registration costs or paid by the PTA or schools. For Schools over 20miles or more it is $50.
REGISTRATION: Schools are welcome to manage their own registration however we can use 6cricket and Homeroom as well.
This is what one of our parents recently emailed us. "We can't thank you enough for all you have taught and shared with us during this winter cooking class at McDonald! [...] The meals definitely warmed our bellies and filled our hearts!"
You can find more information on my background and mission here.