Note the sizes of foods. Let the children sort food by sizes, biggest to smallest, for example. Change the size of food by cutting, slicing, grating, chopping, or dicing.
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Look for and name the shapes of foods, such as:
Before the children arrive, prepare 3 pitchers of frozen lemonade. Use food coloring to color one pitcher orange, one green, and leave one its natural yellow color, so that the three look like: orangeade, limeade, and lemonade.
When the children arrive let them sample the “mystery juice” from each pitcher and guess what flavors they are tasting. Many people believe their eyes rather than their taste buds. Discuss how the appearance of food can affect our enjoyment of its taste. Select children’s books and stories that talk about food or make up your own stories about food and health. Preschoolers like animals and other children as characters.
Ask the children questions about the story. Avoid books that encourage inappropriate food uses - reward, punishment or toys. Make or buy a growth poster.
Along the unruled edge, paste pictures of food or have the children draw pictures of foods. Talk about how important food is to growth. Show them how their height increases with age. Trace each child’s body shape on a large piece of paper. Cut out the shape and color it to look like the child. Cut out pictures of food from magazines. Paste the pictures on the body cutout.
Talk about how food helps the body grow. Ask the children if their bodies are the same size and shape. Compare the cutout to your body size. Explain that bodies grow in different shapes, and sizes, and at different rates. Ask parents to bring in a baby picture of each child. Discuss how the children have grown. |
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