Healthy Family Recipes That Children Can Help With
Preschool Nutrition Theme
Preschool Nutrition is just one part of the equation for healthy children.
Fitness and exercise are too important.
I was not surprised to learn that seventy% of obese children or adolescents grow up to accept adult obesity issues. Yet, the results of a recent study about preschoolers did surprise me: ane in 5 preschoolers is obese. That is such a high number.
As early childhood educators, nosotros have a not bad opportunity and responsibility to work with families to aid preschoolers larn about nutrition and making healthy food choices.
It is my hope that nosotros can assist our children and families get more enlightened of good for you food choices that will help them to become healthy adults.
This Nutrition Theme page is filled with preschool activities and ideas for all areas of your classroom. It includes activities for nutrition and the food groups.
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Preschool Nutrition Theme Fine art
Salubrious Food Collage
Materials Needed: Magazine and catalog pictures of good for you foods, scissor, mucilage, newspaper
Accept the children cut out pictures of healthy foods. Discuss the foods they see and why they are or are not healthy.
EXTENSION: You could accept the pictures precut for them then that you lot tin discuss them as they work on their collage rather than have them cutting them out.
EXTENSION: You could also use this as a sorting activity. See the manipulatives section of this page for Food Picture sorting activity.
Food Group Plates
After talking most the nutrient groups, accept children choose food pictures from each food grouping and glue them onto precut dish shapes!
Paper Mache Foods
Materials Needed: paper, masking tape, wallpaper paste (or your favorite homemade paper mache gum); paint
Help children shape newspaper into their favorite good for you food.
Tape shape with masking tape.
Cover with several layers of newspaper dipped in mache paste (precut newspaper into strips of approximately 1 X 4-6 inch strips).
Let dry, and so paint and display!
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Preschool Diet Theme Block Middle Ideas
Harvest Time
Materials Needed: Add tractors, play vegetables and other farm items (equipment and animals). The children tin can harvest their farms!
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Preschool Nutrition Theme Circumvolve Time Ideas
Circumvolve Time is such a great time for children to learn the social skills of being together as a big group AND to acquire more about your Preschool Nutrition Theme!
Berry, Berry Funny
Preschool nutrition and fun! Absolutely! Where did a boysenberry or strawberry get its name? Hmmm...inquire the children and tape what they say! Bring a agglomeration of different types of berries to circle area and ask them! You could make a form book out of their answers!
I read somewhere that there are really several theories nearly how strawberries got their proper name! It has been said that they got the name "harbinger" berries because they are grown in mulch made with straw or because they were once hung on pieces of straw for ornamentation.
Likewise, did yous know there are berries that are WHITE when they are ripe? I've never seen one, just wouldn't that be cool to evidence the children?!!
Strawberry Song
Yummy, yummy strawberries,
Then red and sweet and plump.
When I see them in my basin,
It makes me want to jump!
I eat them very advisedly,
I savor every ane.
Sweet, delicious strawberries,
To me, they're number 1!
Ane Spud, 2 Potato
Lead the children in this rhyming verse form, property up the advisable number of fingers every bit they go along:
One murphy, ii potato, three murphy, four.
5 potato, six potato, vii potato, more!
Food Pyramid
Teach your preschoolers near diet by introducing the food pyramid.
In advance, brand a large pyramid. The top triangle is for "Fats" (butter, carbohydrate, etc.); the next row is cut into two equal parts (1 for dairy and ane for poly peptide--recollect that eggs get with poly peptide not dairy!);
The next row is besides in 2 equal parts- 1 for fruits and one for vegetables; and the bottom row is for Grains (breads, pasta, cereal, crackers, rice).
Explain that we demand foods from each of the nutrient groups to stay healthy.
Provide pictures of foods from magazines and ask them to place them in the food pyramid nautical chart where it belongs.
VARIATION: Here'due south a motion picture of a Food Pyramid that my co-teacher made at circumvolve time! She gave each of the children some play food. Afterward discussing the pyramid, they each had a turn identifying their nutrient and where it would go on the pyramid and and so placed it there!
Strawberry Song
Investigate strawberries at Circle Time, learn this vocal and then accept a gustatory modality exam!
Yummy, yummy strawberries,
So scarlet and sweet and plump.
When I encounter them in my basin,
It makes me desire to jump!
I eat them very carefully,
I savor every 1.
Sweetness, succulent strawberries,
To me, they're number i!
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Kitchen Tool Identification
Materials Needed: Have many items used for cooking and preparing nutrient in a large pot with a cover. Some suggestions: Potato masher, slotted spoons, small plastic spoons and forks, spatulas, tongs
Take one particular out of the pot. Ask the children if they know what it is. Ask them what information technology is used for.
Continue with each detail.
This is a great chat starter nearly eating and preparing good for you foods. For instance, a small plastic knife is used to cut bananas, slicing wheat staff of life, spreading foods on healthy crackers, etc.
EXTENSION: List the items on a nautical chart too as what the item does.
EXTENSION: Utilize the tools to paint with! See Kitchen Tool Painting activity under the Art section of this folio.
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Snack Recipe Ideas to Cook Up for Your Preschool Diet Theme
Cooking with children helps develop their math skills and helps them to learn how to follow directions. It besides allows for some great conversation!
Ask many questions while cooking with your children to encourage conversation! Be sure to ask specific themed questions while making these fun snacks!
Y'all can help families to offer healthier snacks by sending any recipes you make with the children abode! I'd recommend making a "recipe" book throughout this theme (or throughout the year!) and ship abode Your Preschool's Recipe Book!
You lot could also share the tasting activities that you lot exercise with the children and let families know what foods their children like!
I of the things we exercise, is to mail service any charts nosotros make in a very prominent place where the parents volition see it when they pick their children up or drop them off!
You lot could identify the nautical chart on an easel in front end of their coat cubbies or in front end of the door they enter!
Rice Block Faces This recipe was sent by Maureen of Hamden, CT and information technology looks delicious and fun!
Items needed: i large rice cake for each kid; slices of cheese cut into shapes; raisins; cheerios; pepper slices and some cream cheese; plastic knives
The children brand faces on the rice cakes with these ingredients!
Eat and bask!
Thanks for the recipe Maureen!
Painted Toast
Ingredients and items needed: wheat bread, milk, nutrient coloring, pastry brush, toaster, plastic knives
Have children brush the toast with milk that has been colored with a small-scale corporeality of nutrient coloring. They can paint shapes, faces etc.
Toast bread.
EXTENSION: Brand healthy spreads with the children to top information technology with such every bit apple butter, or add sliced bananas or other fruit to the acme!
Fruit Salad
Of class! Provide a diverseness of fruits and small plastic knives. Include the children in preparing the fruit.
They should spoon fruit into a bowl for snack fourth dimension.
Endeavor this for a dip:
Make instant banana pudding. Use only ane/2 the milk called for in the recipe (so instead of two cups of milk, add 1 loving cup).
Mix in 16 ounces of sour foam.
Yummy !
Vegetable Soup
Ingredients Needed: Vegetable broth, already cooked long grain rice, pre-cooked carrots, oyster crackers; bowls for each child, plastic spoons to eat with; crock-pot, ladle tablespoons
Heat the vegetable broth in a Crock Pot. Place well-nigh i/2 loving cup of broth in each basin for each child.
Place the rice and carrots in split up bowls with a serving spoon.
Supervise children as they scoop into their broth: ii tablespoons of rice and 2 tablespoons of carrots; iii or 4 crackers.
If possible, accept pictures of each pace and brand a REBUS card--a picture bill of fare with words--of each step. For case, the kickoff carte should be WASH Easily. The 2nd should be " Add 2" with a picture of rice and a spoon on the card.
Bread Tasting
Provide several dissimilar types of bread in loaves. Discuss and record what the children say about them.
Cut each one to investigate the middles of them.
Gustation each type...do they like information technology?
Suggestions: Rye, pumpernickel, whole wheat, oatmeal bread, etc.
EXTENSION: List each type of bread on a chart and list the names of the children who like and don't like each 1.
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Preschool Nutrition Theme Ideas to Transform Your Dramatic Play Area
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Supermarket
Materials Needed: Nutrient containers (such equally cereal boxes, milk jugs, etc.); play fruit and vegetables, plastic carriages and carriers, play register and play money.
Be sure that all recycled items are clean and sanitized. For boxes (such equally cereal boxes), stuff with paper or recycled newspaper and tape closed for durability. For coin, instead of purchasing it, encourage children at the writing table to brand their own coin and impress numbers on it!
I exercise recommend that you laminate play money as the children have the addiction of crumpling it up by the fistfuls at clean up fourth dimension!
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Preschool Nutrition Theme Ideas for your Easel--More than Only Painting (Although that is always THE favorite in our classroom!
Sticker Starter
Materials needed: Stickers of foods to help children learn near preschool nutrition such every bit fruits, vegetables, etc.
Identify 1 sticker (or have the children choose their own sticker) and identify it on the paper. The children paint a picture effectually their sticker.
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Preschool Nutrition Theme Large Grouping Games To Help Build Your Preschoolers' Muscles While The Have Fun Together!
Nutrient Delivery!
Provide paper grocery bags and a basket of play nutrient for the children to evangelize to their friends from their bikes/ride-on toys!
Shopping Obstruction Course
Materials Needed: Plastic shopping carts, play food items, index cards, obstacles to go under, over or around (cones, mats to walk on, etc.)
In advance, write the numbers ane, 2 and three on several cards. Give the children a card and tell them they need to purchase that many items at the store that is on the other end of the room. However, they demand to get past the obstacles to get to the store.
Have them follow the course to the "store". Once there, they need to find the number of items every bit listed on their cards, place the items in a bag and then follow the course back to the beginning.
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Preschool Nutrition Theme Ideas for Your Library Area
Book Suggestions for the Library
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The Berenstain Bears and Also Much Junk Nutrient by Jan and Stan Berenstain
Blueberries for Sal (Viking Kestrel picture books) by Robert McCloskey
Staff of life, Staff of life, Staff of life (Around the World Series) by Ann Morris
The Carrot Seed 60th Anniversary Edition by Ruth Krauss
Craven Soup with Rice: A Volume of Months by Maurice Sendak
Eating the Alphabet by Lois Ehlert
From Seed to Institute by Gail Gibbons
Growing Vegetable Soup (Voyager Books) by Lois Ehlert
If You Give a Moose a Muffin by Laura J. Numeroff
The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear (Child'due south Play Library) by Audrey Wood
Pancakes for Breakfast by Tomie dePaola
The Popcorn Book past Tomie dePaola
The Very Hungry Caterpillar past Eric Carle
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Preschool Diet Theme Math & Manipulatives Activities
Activities To Help your Preschoolers Develop Their Math Skills and Those Small Muscles in Their Hands!
five-A-Day Count this Mode!
Provide real fruits and vegetables. Accept work on their i-to-one correspondence by counting out v from the group of food provided. Nosotros all demand 5 a twenty-four hours to stay healthy!
EXTENSION: Provide other play foods that promote preschool nutrition as well that are non fruits and vegetables. Ask them to count out v items that are in the fruit/vegetable food group. Let them to too classify foods in other ways: colors, shapes, etc.
Happy Harriet and Grumpy Gordon
Materials Needed: Healthy and unhealthy laminated foods; 2 boxes (shoe box size works!)
On the bottom of the boxes, cutting a big hole out for a mouth and describe eyes, a nose and add together hair. Make Harriet'southward face a happy smiley mouth and Gordon's a sad mouth.
Equally the children pick upward each nutrient, they should determine if it is healthy or unhealthy. Healthy foods become into Harriet's mouth and unhealthy into Gordon's.
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Preschool Nutrition Theme Music and Move Activities and Ideas to get your Preschoolers Movin' and Groovin'!
One Spud, Two Potato
One spud, two potatoes, three potatoes, iv.
Five potatoes, vi potatoes, vii potatoes more!
Change the food based on theer favorites. Encourage them to hold up the number of fingers as they sing this!
I Know an Erstwhile Lady Who Swallowed A Pie!
This is a GREAT book by Alison Jackson! Sing the book to the children! Of form the traditional book
At that place Was an Erstwhile Lady Who Swallowed a Fly is also neat fun......not great preschool nutrition education, but fun! ;)
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Preschool Diet Activities for Your Sand and Water Tabular array!
Planting
Add soil to your sensory tabular array. Provide play food items that grow in the ground and items for your children to establish them with!
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Preschool Nutrition Theme Science Activities--For Your Preschool Scientists in Training!
Peas in a Pod
Materials Needed: Fresh pea pods, paper and crayons.
Permit the children open and dispense a pea pod! They tin eat it if they desire to attempt it. Encourage them to draw about this investigation!
Milk a Cow
Materials Needed: A not latex glove, a common pin, watered down white paint.
Fill the fingers of a glove with watered downwardly white paint. Poke a minor pinhole in the tips of a few of the fingers. Tie off the glove.
Concur it while the children squeeze the fingers as they clasp the "udders" of the cow for the milk to come out.
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Writing Activity Ideas for Your Preschool Classroom'due south Preschool Nutrition Theme!
Preschool Nutrition and Good for you Food Volume
Materials Needed: Magazines, food catalogs, "books" made in advance, gum sticks, scissors
In advance, make a My Preschool Nutrition and Healthy Food Book for each child. Simply stable several pieces of plain newspaper together covered past construction paper.
Encourage the children impress their name on the front cover.
The children should await through the magazines and cutting out the salubrious foods they see that they like to eat and glue them on their pages. For press practice, have index cards premade with pictures and the words of each salubrious food so that children can write in their books the foods they like equally well.
Appointment Book Thank you lot, Staci, for this idea!
Students tin create appointment books and and then utilise for dramatic play.
Cheryl's note: This idea prompted me to think of a shopping list blazon of book. They could brand a shopping listing and use it in the Supermarket Dramatic Play idea listed above in Dramatic Play.
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Miscellaneous Activities for Your Preschool Classroom'due south Preschool Diet Theme!
Preschool Nutrition Theme Field Trips
Contact a local farm, dairy farm or grocery store to set up up a field trip!
Preschool Diet Theme Classroom Visitors
There are many opportunities with a Preschool Nutrition Theme for visitors to your classroom! Survey parents for opportunities as well as your local community!Some ideas for visitors:
- Dietitian
- Nurse
- Grocer
- Farmer
- Chef/cook
Preschool Nutrition Theme Healthy Nutrient Party!
In advance, transport a notation home to families to bring in a salubrious nutrient that they like to swallow at home such as a fruit, vegetable, bread, etc.
The children should assistance y'all to gear up their nutrient and "display" information technology on a plate for snack time! Make this a very special event by setting the tabular array with a tablecloth, special plates, etc.!
EXTENSION: Make a chart (you know I Love charts!) that lists each food in a column. Have a 2nd column labeled I LIKE IT and a tertiary labeled I DON'T LIKE IT. Precut out each child's name as many times as you have foods so that they tin can tape their name adjacent to each food!
Preschool Nutrition Theme Family unit Project
Send a note dwelling house asking families to send in their favorite good for you family recipe. Put them together to make a Class Family unit Recipe Volume
Preschool Nutrition Resources
Many organizations accept information to help teach preschoolers about diet. Here are a few I accept found.
Dannon Institute-Celebrate Salubrious Eating for Preschool Nutrition
Dairy Council-Kindergarten program but would work for Preschool
National Dairy Council-Child Nutrition resources
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