Introduce kindergartners to healthy eating by familiarizing them with different healthy foods and the basic concepts of nutrition. Talk about fueling the body so it can make strong teeth, bones, hair and fingernails. Discuss energy, running and jumping and relate food to the fuel that makes a car go. Show real fruits and vegetables and practice identifying and naming them. Ask about how those foods are served and play games before and after lunch and snack times to reinforce the ideas.
Clothesline Art Show
Collect food magazines and pictures of foods the kids can cut out with blunt-end scissors. Let each child glue his healthy foods to an oversized piece of construction paper or a piece of oak tag and "sign" his work. Have a lively discussion ongoing throughout the activity about what constitutes a healthy food. Tie a string or clothesline across the room and use bright clothespins to hang the art on the line. Let each artist stand before the class and explain the favorite healthy choices she selected for her art work. Invite another kindergarten class to the opening of the exhibit to make it even more festive. Then serve a healthy snack.
Berry Nice Bingo
Create enough bingo cards for the class, using pictures of healthy foods cut from magazines. Emphasize fruits and vegetables but include something from each food group and glue pictures to large bingo cards. Laminate the cards so you can play this game often. Let one child stand in front of the class and read the names of the food items on cards drawn randomly from a box. Be sure the cards have the word printed on one side and the picture on the other to accommodate children who don't read yet. When a student fills 3 or 4 spaces in a row or a diagonal they call out "Bingo!" and take a turn reading the cards. Stamp a fruit or vegetable on the hand of each bingo winner for that day.
Lunchtime Placemats
Make snack time learning time with personalized nutrition mats the kids make themselves. Talk about healthy eating and have lots of cut out pictures of fruits and vegetables in separate boxes--one for veggies, one for whole grains, or one for low-fat dairy. Think of other examples as well. Show the USDA food pyramid and then draw a real pyramid shape on the board and let the children shout out foods to place at each level. Give students a piece of construction paper to glue and let them choose food pictures from the boxes to make their own pyramids on the papers. Each place mat is signed by the child before it is laminated and used for lunch and snack times for the rest of the year.
On the Menu
Practice eating healthy foods in restaurants with a Healthy Calorie Caf in the classroom. Make veggie-heavy menus using cut-out food pictures, writing the name of the item in block print under each one. Laminate the menus--make them as creative and "menu-like" as possible so they really capture the kids' attention. Set up a restaurant table in the classroom. Let the children put the cloth, dishes and utensils on the table as if they are setting up the restaurant. Other children are the cooks in the "kitchen" with plastic play foods. The remaining kids are customers. The waiters describe the healthy special of the day, telling a simple nutritional fact about the food. Customers order food from the menus, the cooks assemble the dishes and the waiters serve the food. Then everyone switches roles.
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