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Radishes are the easiest thing to grow. There is a quick gratification, and little maintenance
It is extremely easy to make a Potato Box, regardless of your living space. Kids love to watch the potato sprout, just keep them out of the leaves as , like their kin tomato, they are toxic. After you cut the tops off, kids love to help dig slowly and carefully through the dirt to find potatoes.
And Not just kids I have a potato box. My harvest date is April 15, then I will re-fertilize and plant sweet potatoes.
But you do not even have to have a box. I just got a couple of extra Potato bags off of Amazon, so that I can have multiple crops.
Either way Have fun What a great way to get kids into gardening !
I just can't visualize this. I know about "blown eggs" and we did that too .... but ..... I think you missed a step How did you get the soil and the seeds into the empty blown eggshells if they only had two little holes in them? Where did the radish leaves grow?
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OMG. I just came back here and saw "BOWEL" instead of "BOWL". And yes, the soil. We added that into the scooped out larger hole, which wasn't really that small. It was easy to fill with soil. It faced up, like a jagged little egg cup.
I'd stick with a harvest that doesn't need to be cooked.
String beans are very easy to grow. They come in colors too -- yellow, green, purple. Pick and eat.
Fava Beans can be eaten right off the vine too. Peel away the pod and eat the seeds. Delicious and different.
Grape and cherry tomatoes do well in five gallons buckets if you're limited in space.
Red onions are beautiful.
Consider Sugar Snap Peas if you have a trellis of some kind. Very tasty (rather sweet) and easy to grow. Just pick and eat. The children will enjoy watching the little tentacles reach out, looking for something to grab and pull themselves upward.
To encourage the kids to eat veggies, have them grow a "sweet millions" cherry tomato. The kids can pick them and eat them right off the plant.
Also some edible pod Chinese peas. They are easy to grow and are tasty picked and eaten right off the plant. They are fun for kids because you have to hunt to find the ones ready to pick, but it's not too hard to find them.
Radishes are quick and easy, but how many kids like to eat radishes?
Are you in Texas? Do the kids like watermelon? Those are really easy to grow if you have the weather for it. Because the seeds are big, they are easy for kids to handle.
Corn is always fun. Grow one single stalk, or a full row. Most kids like corn.
If corn is to be grown, to promote pollination, it's best to grow a block of multiple plants. Avoid a single row or, especially, a single plant.
A few sunflowers are always nice.
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How did you get the soil and the seeds into the empty blown eggshells if they only had two little holes in them? Where did the radish leaves grow? 
And yes, the soil. We added that into the scooped out larger hole, which wasn't really that small. It was easy to fill with soil. It faced up, like a jagged little egg cup.
