Grains

Talk with the children about grain-based foods, such as bread, rice, pasta, crackers, cereals, even cakes and cookies. Children need 6 servings of grain foods each day. Talk about why we need to make sure that we choose some grain foods more often than others.

Discuss with the children foods that can be made with grains.
Read the story The Little Red Hen. Grains, like the wheat in the story, are the seeds of grasses. We eat many kinds of grass seed.

The little red hen could have taken any of these to the miller: rice, corn, barley, rye, oats or wheat.

Taste test breads made from different grains so that the children can see and taste the difference.

Use nutrition posters for a large puzzle or have children choose magazine pictures or draw pictures of food and food related ideas, such as farms, plants, gardens or animals.