Taste the Rainbow: Create a Rainbow of Healthy Food
Posted by eka in Arts and Crafts, Kids Activities on Wednesday, May 25, 2011
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, children from preschool to age eight need 1 ½ cups of vegetables and 1 ½ cups of fruit each day. But getting your child to eat his fair share of fruits and vegetables can sometimes be difficult. Here is a project to inspire your child to start eating super healthy: Make a Rainbow healthy food! In this activity, keeping your child will be a rainbow of color, glue on fruits and vegetables, and monitoring of super healthy foods she eats during the week of a colorful way.
Not only the skills of your child's skills and improve fine motor pattern, but also it can create a wonderful image that help to maintain healthy eating habits in the coming years.
What you need:
* Food ads
* Scissors
* Glue stick
* Crayons
* 2 cotton balls
* Model Rainbow
* Health Food Model Chart
What you do:
1. Discuss what the colors are a rainbow. Tell him about the colors of the rainbow (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet). rainbow of colors.
2. That cut fruit and vegetables from the grocery ads. You may want to have your smaller plate to fit on the rainbow. Try to find a healthy fruit or vegetable for all colors of the rainbow.
3. Fruits and vegetables and stick his name in the correct color of the rainbow. For example, strawberries and red peppers are stuck in the red part of the rainbow, while oranges and squash would be stuck on the orange.
4. Puffy clouds make to complete the picture by stretching each cotton ball and stick it on the drawing rainbow.
5. Now hang a rainbow your refrigerator to remind your child (and family!) Eat all the colors of fruits and vegetables.
6. Use the chart in different colors of fruits and vegetables that your child eats week. Starting with the bar graph below, color box for each color of fruits or vegetables are eaten. For example, if you eat the carrot sticks, box of orange.
Can your child eat a rainbow of fruits and vegetables this week? Try and see!
Not only the skills of your child's skills and improve fine motor pattern, but also it can create a wonderful image that help to maintain healthy eating habits in the coming years.
What you need:
* Food ads
* Scissors
* Glue stick
* Crayons
* 2 cotton balls
* Model Rainbow
* Health Food Model Chart
What you do:
1. Discuss what the colors are a rainbow. Tell him about the colors of the rainbow (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet). rainbow of colors.
2. That cut fruit and vegetables from the grocery ads. You may want to have your smaller plate to fit on the rainbow. Try to find a healthy fruit or vegetable for all colors of the rainbow.
3. Fruits and vegetables and stick his name in the correct color of the rainbow. For example, strawberries and red peppers are stuck in the red part of the rainbow, while oranges and squash would be stuck on the orange.
4. Puffy clouds make to complete the picture by stretching each cotton ball and stick it on the drawing rainbow.
5. Now hang a rainbow your refrigerator to remind your child (and family!) Eat all the colors of fruits and vegetables.
6. Use the chart in different colors of fruits and vegetables that your child eats week. Starting with the bar graph below, color box for each color of fruits or vegetables are eaten. For example, if you eat the carrot sticks, box of orange.
Can your child eat a rainbow of fruits and vegetables this week? Try and see!