Nutrition Week: Healthy or Unhealthy Food Game

Kids are never to young to learn healthy eating habits. When learning about nutrition it can be a little bit difficult to figure out a way to make it fun, memorable and entertaining. Healthy or Unhealthy Food Game is a great simple fun way to teach your kids about healthy and unhealthy food.

Supplies

- 12-15 Assorted grocery favorites and dislikes (fruits, snacks, drink pouch, etc.)

- A grocery play cart or grocery bag (paper or plastic)

Directions

Present one grocery item one at a time and have your child sort them by telling you if it is unhealthy or healthy. Healthy items go in the bag or cart. Unhealthy items are discarded to the side. If they label an item incorrect, you will be correcting it later. Once they have finished sorting all the groceries, together you will go through both sorted piles one at a time. While going over each item let them know if they were correct or incorrect by explain to them why. This is to insure they understand why the item is healthy or unhealthy. 

Purpose

The Purpose of this game is to help your children have a better understanding of various foods. Understanding what foods are healthy and unhealthy will assist your children in making better food choices.

Nutrition Week: Major Food Group Sorting

Teaching your children about living a healthy lifestyle is important. Educating them on the importance of proper nutrition and fitness can be fun and exciting for children of all ages. Most of the activities that we did were all done using common items that we had around the house. 

Supplies

- Paper

- Marker

- Scissors

- 5 or 6 paper Bags

- Plastic food or food pictures (optional)

Directions

Cut strips of paper and label each one with various foods they are familiar with. You don't want to make it to difficult. Label each bag with the major food groups and let them sort the items. If your child is too young, using pictures or even play food is a good option as well. 

Purpose

The purpose of this activity can be for multiple reasons. You can use it as a way to work on reading, sorting, playing a fun game by seeing how quickly they can sort. Also, to learn about the major food groups and why the foods fit in that particular group.

 

Nutrition Week Sensory Activity (Fruit/Veggie Edition)

Make learning about fruits and vegetables fun. It's important to make sure that you include learning without work sheets. The following activity is a fun way to do it. 

Supplies

- Blind fold, carboard box or trifold poster board. 

- Assorted fruits and vegetables

- Plate, bowl or paper towel

Purpose 

The purpose of this activity is not just for fun, but it's also a lesson in exploring inference by using various senses to navigate through daily living.

Sense of Touch

I used a trifold poster board and cut out two holes. You can also just use a blind fold or cardboard box.

Sense of Smell

Depending on how you display the fruit/veggies you may or may not want them to touch it. So you may want to have a plate or bowl on hand for them to pick up. 

Sense of Taste

I fed him because I didn't want him to get any hints by touching it. Alternatives you could use would be a fork and you can just pre-fork everything and then just put the fork in their hand. 

This activity provides a fun and exciting competition for the kids and very entertaining activity for the observers. I hope you enjoy!