When students learn the content of the food groups, they are better prepared to maintain a healthy diet and lifestyle. Create a cookbook of new and healthy snacks. Food selections for Initiating Activity.
Some suggestions are bananas, grapefruit, carrots, celery.
Magazines for cutting up. Food tasting - blindfold students in groups of three's. Have each child in the group taste the food and have them guess the identity of what they are tasting. Repeat with all groups as many times as you like. Have students suggest vegetable names to list under the colors listed on the chalkboard.