Nutrition education empowers children to make healthy choices, but it shouldn't feel like a lecture.
Make learning about food fun and interactive through games, activities, and cooking demonstrations. Hands-on learning through games can create a positive connection with healthy foods.
Scavenger hunt at the grocery store – Make a list of healthy items like bananas, brown rice, and tomatoes. See who can find the item the fastest.
Food grouping – cut out the food** from the magazine and take turns sorting them into food groups.
Food Bingo – Make bingo cards with fruits, vegetables, proteins, and grains instead of numbers.
Guess the Mystery Ingredients – Blindfold each other and guess fruits and vegetables based on taste alone.
Meal Builder – Flip cards with food** to build a balanced breakfast, lunch or dinner.
Food Value Test – Ask interactive questions such as which contains more vitamin C in oranges or strawberriesMore calcium – spinach or milk?
Food Trivia – Make a yes/no or multiple-choice question about nutrients.
What am I?- Stick a food ** on the back and ask yes or no questions to guess the identity of the food.
Edible Color Wheel – Arrange sliced fruits and vegetables by color to discuss phytonutrients.
Label Reading – Compare two similar products side-by-side to determine healthier options based on nutrition labels.
Horticultural planting – growing fruits and vegetables together from seeds. Children love to eat their "harvest".
Kitchen chemistry – do some safe experiments, such as curdling milk with lemon juice or scraping off bananas that are in the fridge. Discuss science.
Field Trips – Visit farmers' markets, gardens, orchards, and farms to learn first-hand about food**.
Diet diary – Keep track of what you're eating for a few days, then review it together to find ways to increase produce, whole grains, and lean protein.
Cookbook Maker – Collect healthy kid-friendly recipes and their drawings into a custom cookbook. Punch holes and bind the paper together.
Make smoothies – teach the mix of yogurt, milk, veggies, and fruits. Let them create their own.
Yogurt jelly – Put yogurt, granola, and fruit in a glass while discussing the protein in the yogurt and the fiber in the oats.
Pizza making – making a whole wheat dough rich in vegetables from scratch. Share kitchen safety.
Omelette Making – Knocking eggs, mixing fillings and discussing proteins are all fun hands-on ways.
Energy foods that don't need to be baked – mix oats, nut butter, honey and chocolate chips while discussing the energy of carbs**.
Fruit salad – Chop melons, berries, and citrus and squeeze lime juice on top to prevent discoloration.
Through games, activities and cooking, nutrition learning is interactive, children's passion for food is nurtured, and children can apply what they have learned to real dietary choices.
Let healthy habits persist through the joy of practice!
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