Use real food as much as possible. Food Train Public Voice for Food and Health Policy, a national, nonprofit organization, adapted the Head Start Curriculum for young children that uses the idea of a food train. Cars for the train are made from different colors of construction paper. The different colors represent the food groupings on the Food Guide Pyramid. Within a food group, one car is made for each serving of a food the child needs to eat each day.
Children place pictures of foods they eat into the correct cars during the day.
By the end of the day, children can see what they have eaten from each food group and what they still need to eat. New Foods Help children learn to eat new foods. Remember that young children learn by imitating adults. Eat with the children and eat the same foods they are eating. If children see you eating and enjoying a food that is new to them, they will be more likely to try it.