Plastic healthy food
Pictures of healthy foods and bad foods
Interactive food pyramid
Sales papers for grocery stores
Stamps of healthy foods
Books about health and nutrition
Muffin tin
Pie pan
Child size pots, pans, utencils, etc
Pot Holder
Salt and pepper shakers
Empty food and drink containers
Homemade hand weights
Child appropriate exercise equipment
Placemats
Menus
Cup carriers from restaurants
Chef hat and apron
Pizza boxes
File folder game
Wash clothes
Empty toothpaste box
Empty or pretend bathing shampoo and soap
Tissue box
Empty bandaid box
Homemade sponge blocks
Water Table: plastic healthy foods, plastic plates, spoons, measuring cups/spoons, etc.
Sensory Table: blue and white moon sand, empty toothpaste boxes, toothbrushes, laminated teeth cut outs, Large pom poms, measuring cups/spoons, etc.
1 Talk about the importance of exercise, make exercise collage
2. Talk about the importance of hygiene, wash baby dolls
3. The Sneeze- Talk about the importance on sneezing in your elbow or tissue. Show children what happens if you don't. Take a squirt bottle filled with water and pretend to sneeze, once in the air, another using your hand, then again using a tissue, show them your hand and the tissue. Talk about how when you sneezed in the air it spreads to everyone, if you sneeze in your hand you need to wash it immediately before touching anything else or germs will spread, if you sneeze in a tissue or elbow it traps the germs. Let them take turns doing this.
4. Create a Happy Plate graph
5. Make a "I like to Eat class book". The I Like to Eat class book is a ton of fun to make and great scissor skill work, too. Gather some grocery store ads or collect wrappers.
6. Measuring containers. Measure containers with snap cubes! Students can count how tall a container is, compare the sizes and estimate how tall it is before they measure.
Teaching Concepts for Small Group
1. Look at pictures of foods that are healthy and ones that are not healthy
2. Food Group sort
3. Food collage
4. Look at each food group, name foods
5. Make menus with healthy choice foods
6. Pretend to cook a healthy meal
7. Make a pizza using cardboard and paper cut outs
8. Create a Happy Plate
9. Vegetable/Fruit Sort
1. Food Hunt
2. Food Delivery (pretend to drive and deliver food or use tricycles)
3. Gym Time (pretend you are at the gym or aerobics class and do different exercises, let children take turns being the gym instructor)
4. Copy me (everyone gets a ball and does what the teacher does, ex. hold over head, bounce, roll, etc)
5. Simon Says
6. Fitness Stations
Using a timer for each station keeps the kids moving through them and on task. Anywhere from 1-3 minutes per station is appropriate. It gives the students enough time to work on the activity, but not too much time to get bored and stop the activity.
7. Freeze Tag
8.Follow the Leader
9. Movement Dice
10. Yoga Cards
1. The Shape-Up Song (tune: Farmer in the Dell)
We’re jumping up and down
We’re jumping up and down
We’re getting lots of exercise
We’re jumping up and down.
We’re bending to touch our toes
We’re bending to touch our toes
We’re getting lots of exercise
We’re bending to touch our toes
We’re kicking our legs up high
We’re kicking our legs up high
We’re getting lots of exercise
We’re kicking our legs up high.
We’re jogging around the room
We’re jogging around the room
We’re getting lots of exercise
We’re jogging around the room.
We’re wiggling our whole body
We’re wiggling our whole body
We’re getting lots of exercise
We’re wiggling our whole body.
We’re stretching up to the sky
We’re stretching up to the sky
We’re getting lots of exercise
We’re stretching up to the sky.
2. Vegetable Soup (like London Bridge)
We are making vegetable soup
Vegetable soup, Vegetable soup
We are making vegetable soup
Now put in the (vegetable of choice).
Take the ________and stir it up,
Stir it up, stir it up,
Take the ________and stir it up
While making vegetable soup.
3.Growing Song (tune: Are you Sleeping?)
We need food and we need water
We need sleep, lots of sleep
To help our bodies grow
From our heads down to our toes
Grow, grow, grow
Grow, grow, grow
4.Meet the Veggies
Tomato: I’m round and red
And juicy too.
Chop me for a salad,
Or dump me in your stew!
Lettuce: Hey, wait a minute!
If a salad you’re fixin’
I can stand alone.
No need for the mixin’!
Onion: Chop me and slice me
But keep water near.
I sometimes get juicy
And can bring on a tear!
Carrot: Orange is my color
I stand long and lean.
In the garden you’ll see
Just my bright leaves of green.
Pea: I live in a pod
With so many others.
I think I was born
With one hundred brothers!
Green Bean: Look in the garden
You’ll see my sign.
Then bring out your basket
When it’s pickin’ time!
Potato: I’ve an eye for perfection
To give you the best.
Baked, mashed or fried-
I’ll pass the test!
Cabbage: My head is quite thick
So people tell me.
I guess that’s the reason
Grocery stores sell me!
Celery: Cut and rinse my stalks,
Then spread on cream cheese.
A refreshing hors d’oeuvre
To make parties a breeze!
Squash: Some call me a game,
A game of good sport,
But I’m really to eat
As a side dish of sorts!
Brussel Sprout: I’m kinda cute
When I’m served on a plate
I’m just a little mouthful.
You can eat six or eight!
Cauliflower: I carry white flowers
To break off and eat.
I’m sometimes served raw,
A nutritious snack treat!
Broccoli: My friends call me trees.
Now that’s a funny name.
Though I am a dark green
With stalks just the same.
We’re the veggies
You should eat every day!
Now don’t make a face.
We’re as good as we say!
5.Cheese Please (tune: 3 blind mice)
Cheese, cheese, cheese we love cheese
Please, please please give us cheese
We like white cheese oh yes we do
Orange cheese taste wonderful too
Yellow cheese is for me and you
Oh, give us cheese
6. After a Bath
After a bath, I try, try, try,
To wipe myself ’till I’m dry, dry, dry.
Hands to wipe, and fingers and toes,
And two wet legs and a shiny nose.
Just think, how much less time I’d take,
If I were a dog, and could shake, shake, shake!
7. I Eat Oatmeal for Breakfast ( tune: Mine eyes have seen the glory)
I eat oatmeal for breakfast
When I get up out of bed
The baby likes to eat it
And she puts it on her head.
But Daddy reads the paper
And eats cheereos instead.
And Mom eats toast and Jam!
Eat your breakfast in the morning
Eat your breakfast in the morning
Eat your breakfast in the morning
Bur don’t put oatmeal on your head!
8. On Top of Spaghetti
9. Tick, Tick, Tick Toast Time
Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick (bouncing gently throughout the rhyme)
Make me a sandwich, quick, quick, quick
Hamwich, jamwich, lick, lick, lick.
Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick
And, stop . . . .
POP!
Teaching Concepts for Fingerplays
1. One Potato
One potato, two potato,
Three potato, four
Five potato, six potato,
Seven potato, more.
Eight potato, nine potato, Here is ten.
Now let’s start all over again.
2. Brush, Brush, Brush!
Here are my teeth all shiny and bright (point to teeth)
I brush them each morning
I brush them at night (pretend to brush teeth)
I visit my dentist at least twice a year
And that makes a healthy smile right here! (point to smile)
3. Peanut Sitting on A Railroad Track
A peanut sat on a railroad track
His heart was all aflutter (pat hand over heart.)
Around the bend came number ten, (hold up ten fingers).
Choo-Choo Peanut Butter (pretend you are pulling whistle.)
Smack (clap hands together)
4. This is the Way We Wash Our Hands (tune: Here we go around the Mulberry Bush)
This is the way we wash our hands, Wash our hands, wash our hands, (pretend to wash hands)
This is the way we wash our hands, So early in the evening.
Continue with verses below:
This is the way we scrub our face . . . (pretend to scrub face)
This is the way we swish out our ears . . . (pretend to wash ears)
This is the way we comb our hair . . . (pretend to comb your hair)
This is the way we brush our teeth . . .(pretend to brush)
5. Peanut Butter
First you take the peanuts and you dig ‘em, you dig ‘em.
You dig ‘em, dig ‘em, dig ‘em.
Then you crush ‘em, you crush ‘em.
You crush ‘em, crush ‘em, crush ‘em.
And you spread ‘em, you spread ‘em,
You spread ‘em, spread ‘em, spread ‘em.
Chorus: Peanut, peanut butter. Jelly!
Peanut, peanut butter. Jelly!
Then you take the berries and you pick ‘em, you pick ‘em.
You pick ‘em, pick ‘em, pick ‘em.
And you crush ‘em, you crush ‘em.
You crush ‘em, crush ‘em, crush ‘em.
Then you spread ‘em, you spread ‘em,
You spread ‘em, spread ‘em, spread ‘em.
Chorus
Then you take the sandwich and you bite it, you bite it,
You bite it, bite it, bite it.
And you munch it, you munch it,
You munch it, munch it, munch it.
And you swallow, you swallow,
You swallow, swallow, swallow.
Chorus
6. 5 Scoops of Ice Cream
I had 5 scoops of ice cream
No less, no more,
1 fell off and that left 4.
I had 4 scoops of ice cream
As yummy as could be,
1 fell off and that left 3
I had 3 scoops of ice cream
Yes it's true,
1 fell off and that left 2
I had 2 scoops of ice cream
In the melting sun,
1 fell off and that left 1
I had 1 scoop of ice cream
Sitting on the cone,
I ate it all up and that left NONE!