Healthy Food Hunt

What You Need:

• Grocery ads
• Scissors
• Glue stick
• Paper plate

What You Do:

1. Have your child cut out pictures of many different kinds foods from the grocery ads.
2. Explain to your child that fruits, vegetables, milk products, grains, and meat help our bodies grow to be healthy and strong.
3. Help your child hunt through the cut-out foods and have them place the healthy foods in one pile and the non-healthy foods in another. Use this activity as an opportunity to review fruit and vegetable names.
4. Ask your child to make a healthy dinner on a paper plate by picking some foods from the healthy foods pile and gluing them onto the paper plate to make a complete meal. They can even make extra healthy plates for other members of the family.
5. Talk to them about the choices they make and ask questions about why they thinks their meal will be nutritious and delicious. Feel free to help if they need some guidance. When they're finished, they'll have "prepared" their very own healthy meal without dirtying a single pot or pan!

They can keep the healthy meal plates they've made to use for make-believe games or to hang in the kitchen to help remind them of foods that are good for them. Hopefully, when it comes time to eat, your child will recognize the different healthy foods on their plate, eat them, and know they're helping their own body grow!