Food Group Sorting Game: Table-Top, On-Screen and No-Food Versions
A 20-minute sorting game where children place food cards into the six food groups, talk through tricky foods, and build a mixed plate. No real food needed.
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Healthy Eating Activities
Hands-on sorting, tasting, growing and noticing activities for home and classroom.
Activities 6
Five Senses Food Exploration: Look, Touch, Smell, Listen, Taste
A 25-minute sensory exploration of three or four foods, with optional tasting, a word bank of describing words, and ways to join in without eating.
Bean Seed in a Cup: Watch Roots and Shoots Grow
Sprout dry beans in a clear cup to watch roots and shoots appear over one to two weeks. Includes a daily journal, hygiene steps, and what to do about mold.
Build a Rainbow Snack Plate: A No-Cook Color Activity
Children arrange pre-cut fruits and vegetables by color into a rainbow plate. No cooking, choking-safe cuts by age, and optional tasting.
Fruit and Vegetable Alphabet Hunt: A to Z at the Store, in Books or Outside
Children hunt for a fruit or vegetable for each letter from A to Z at the grocery store, in picture books, or in a garden, and record finds on a tracker.
Where Foods Grow: Roots, Stems, Leaves, Flowers, Fruits and Seeds
Children sort foods by the plant part we eat and where they grow, then trace animal foods like milk and eggs back to farms. Includes a matching worksheet.
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