Child Nutrition & Wellness Kansas State Department of Education

Presents

Floppy Hats and

Silly Songs

Participant Booklet

A Class for the Child and Adult Care Food Program

This class was developed by Child Nutrition & Wellness, Kansas State Department of Education. Class content and activities were adapted from the following sources:

Evers, C.L. (2006) How to Teach Nutrition to Kids. Portland, OR: 24 Carrot Press.

National Food Service Management Institute

MyPyramid.gov

National Dairy Council

Building Blocks for Fun and Health Meals, Team Nutrition, USDA

This publication has been funded at least in part with Federal funds from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service. The contents of this publication do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the Department, nor does mention of trade names, commercial products, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government. _____________________________________________________________________

Kansas State Department of Education Dr. Diane M. DeBacker Commissioner, 785-296-3202

Dale M. Dennis, Deputy Commissioner Fiscal & Administrative, 785-296-3871 Brad Neuenswander, Deputy Commissioner Division of Learning Services, 785-296-2303

For further information, please contact: Child Nutrition & Wellness, 120 SE 10th Avenue, Topeka, Kansas 66612, 785-296-2276, Fax: 785-296-0232, www.kn-eat.org, Cindy Johnson, Training Coordinator, cljohnson@ksde.org.

In accordance with Federal law and U.S. Department of Agriculture policy, this institution is prohibited from discriminating on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability. To file a complaint of discrimination, write USDA, Director, Office of Adjudication, 1400 Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20250-9410, or call (866) 632-9992 (voice). Individuals who are hearing impaired or have speech disabilities may contact USDA through Federal Relay Service (800) 877-8339; or (800) 845-6136 (Spanish). USDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer. The following person has been designated to handle inquiries regarding the non-discrimination policies at the Kansas Department of Education: KSDE General Counsel, 120 SE 10th Avenue, Topeka, KS 66612, (785)296-3204.

Publication Date: October 2011

Floppy Hats and Silly Songs

Table of Contents Old McDonald ........................................................................................................ Page 1 Objectives .............................................................................................................. Page 2 What Should We Be Teaching? ............................................................................. Page 2 Let’s Make a Meal Relay ........................................................................................ Page 3 Best Practices Checklist ......................................................................................... Page 5 Kitchen Activities .................................................................................................... Page 6 Resources .............................................................................................................. Page 7 Integrating Nutrition Education into Everyday Learning.......................................... Page 9 Steps to Planning a Nutrition Education Activity ................................................... Page 11 Planning a Nutrition Education Activity ................................................................. Page 13 Tasting Passport .................................................................................................. Page 14

Child Nutrition & Wellness Kansas State Department of Education

Old McDonald Why: Equipment: Food: Children can practice the names of different kinds of healthful foods.

What: Do the Activity: Preparation: Children will become more familiar with different foods by naming foods during the singing of a fun and familiar song.

Sing Old McDonald Had a Farm, but instead of using the typical words use names of healthful foods Old McDonald might have grown on his farm. Use the words Yum-Yum instead of the usual animal sounds.

As the song progresses, ask each child to name a food, then sing the verse with that food. Have the children rub their tummy when they say Yum-Yum.

Old McDonald had a farm,

E-I-E-I-O.

And on his farm he had some (child names food),

E-I-E-I-O.

With a Yum-Yum here and a Yum-Yum there,

Here a Yum, there a Yum, everywhere a Yum-Yum.

Old McDonald had a farm,

E-I-E-I-O.

For the next verse the caregiver calls a child’s name and asks, “What food should we do next?”

Continue the song for several verses. End with clapping by all.

Objectives

By the end of this lesson, you will learn:

Why Nutrition Education is important

How to make Nutrition Education part of your program

Where to find Nutrition Education resources

How to plan and implement Nutrition Education activities

What Should We Be Teaching?

______________ and ________________ of different foods The need to eat a ___________________________ of foods in moderation Some foods are _________________________ than others Foods are ___________________________ Basic concepts

Let’s Make a Meal Relay

Resource: How To Teach Nutrition To Kids

Why: How: Equipment How: Food

Active games that promote

nutrition concepts can be creative

and fun.

Food Group Cards (2 copies of each page)

Basket

Whistle

What: Do the Activity: DO AHEAD:

This game reinforces the

principles of MyPyramid as

students engage in active play.

Encourage children to develop

their own games that center on a

food or nutrition theme.

The objective is for students to form a relay

team made up of five members with each

student on the team representing a different

food group.

Let each child draw a food group card out of

the basket. Don’t look at it yet.

Explain that when you blow your whistle (or

yell “Go!”), children are to mingle, share with

other children which food group they

represent and organize into “complete meal”

teams. (Warning: This is a noisy game!)

Once a team is assembled, each team

member will run/walk an assigned distance,

relay style. The first team to finish is the

winner.

Cut up food group cards and place in

basket.

Let’s Make a Meal Relay - Cards

Milk

Milk

Milk

Milk

Milk

Bread/Grain

Bread/Grain

Bread/Grain

Bread/Grain

Bread/Grain

Meat/Meat Alternate

Meat/Meat Alternate

Meat/Meat Alternate

Meat/Meat Alternate

Meat/Meat Alternate

Fruit

Fruit

Fruit

Fruit

Fruit

Vegetable

Vegetable

Vegetable

Vegetable

Vegetable

Best Practices Checklist

Steps to Nutrition Success Checklist Family Day Care Homes

Best Practices for Quality Nutrition Programs

SECTION: NUTRITION EDUCATION

Best Practice Checklist: Nutrition Education

Providing current, age appropriate nutrition education is an important aspect of the child care curriculum. Nutrition education activities can be used to teach math, science, social studies, and language. Music and art are also great places to use food-related themes. Indicate if your program meets each of the Best Practices below. Check “Yes” if you are already doing a Best Practice. Check “Some” if you have started working on a Best Practice. Check “Maybe” if you might work on a Best Practice in the future. Check “NA” (Not Applicable) if you do not think the Best Practice is something you need to be doing.

Best Practices Yes Some Maybe NA

Conduct nutrition education activities with children.

Plan nutrition education activities that follow the nutrition recommendations of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and the Food Guide Pyramid for Children.

Have availablity of lending libraries for nutrition education materials.

Take advantage of lending libraries for nutrition education materials.

Talk about foods served at mealtime and use stories and other classroom activities that teach about healthy foods.

Offer snacks for class activities that promote healthy eating habits.

Let children help prepare healthy snacks.

Comments: ______________________________________________________________________ National Food Service Management Institute 17

Kitchen Activities

Kitchen Activities

Having your preschooler help you in the kitchen is a good

way to get your child to try new foods.

Kids feel good about doing something “grown-up.” Give them small jobs to do. Praise their efforts. Children are much less likely to reject foods that they helped make. As preschoolers grow, they are able to help out with different tasks in the kitchen. While the following suggestions are typical, children may develop

these skills at different ages

At 2 years:

• Wipe tables

• Hand items to adult to put away (such as after grocery shopping)

• Place things in trash

• Tear lettuce or greens

• Help “read” a cookbook by turning the

pages

• Make “faces” out of pieces of fruits and vegetables

• Rinse vegetables or fruits

• Snap green beans

At 3 years:

All that a 2 year old can do, plus:

• Add ingredients

• Talk about cooking

• Scoop or mash potatoes

• Squeeze citrus fruits

• Stir pancake batter

• Knead and shape dough

• Name and count foods

• Help assemble a pizza

At 4 years:

All that a 3 year old can do, plus:

• Peel eggs and some fruits, such as oranges and bananas

• Set the table

• Crack eggs

• Help measure dry ingredients

• Help make sandwiches and tossed salads

At 5 years:

All that a 4 year old can do, plus:

• Measure liquids

• Cut soft fruits with a dull knife

• Use an egg beater

Make sure that they wash their hands before helping.

http://www.mypyramid.gov/preschoolers/HealthyHabits/PickyEaters/kitchenavtivities.html

Resources - Nutrition on the Web

Q www.MyPyramid.gov – Food Guide Pyramid

Q www.nal.usda.gov/fnic - Food and Nutrition Information Center

Q www.ksre.ksu.edu – Kansas State Research & Extension publications

Q www.fns.usda.gov – Food and Nutrition Service, United States Department of

Agriculture

Q www.nfsmi.org – National Food Service Management Institute

Q www.agclassroom.org – Ag in the Classroom

Q www.cannedveggies.org – Canned Vegetable Council

Q www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/5aday - CDC - 5 A Day

Q www.dole5aday.com – Dole 5 A Day

Q www.fightbac.org – Fight BAC (Food Safety)

Q www.fieldtripfactory.com – Free Field Trips

Q www.5aday.org – Produce for Better Health Foundation

Q www.aboutproduce.com – Produce Marketing Association

Q www.ars.usda.gov/is/kids - Science 4 Kids

Q www.sunkist.com - Sunkist

Q www.leafy-greens.org/default.html - Leafy Greens Council

Q www.kidseatwell.org/resources.html - Nutrition Education

Q www.nutritionexplorations.com – Dairy Council

Q www.eatsmartplayhard.org/index.html - Eat Smart. Play

Hard.

Q www.quackwatch.org and www.nutriwatch.org –

Quack Watch and Nutrition Watch

Q www.kidsacookin.org – Kids a Cookin’

Q www.nourishinteractive.com - Nutrition Games/Activities

Q www.familyeducation.com - Nutrition Activities for Kids 0-6 Years

Q www.healthychild.net – Healthy Child Care

Q www.foodandhealth.com – Free Handouts

Q www.fns.usda.gov – Nutrition Newsletters for Young Children (Nibbles for Health)

Q www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/pubs/bibs/gen/fun_preschoolers.pdf - Food and Nutrition Fun

for Preschoolers

Q www.kidsgardening.org - Ideas for Youth Gardening

Q www.henrythehand.com - Sanitation, especially

washing hands

Q www.homebaking.org – Home Baking Association

Q www.preschoolrainbow.org – Gayle’s Preschool

Rainbow

Q www.usarice.com – USA Rice Federation

Q www.idahopotatoes.com – Idaho Potato Commission

Q www.mainepotatoes.com – Maine Potato Board

Q www.aeb.org - American Egg Board

Q www.pumpkinnook.com - All about pumpkins

Q www.watermelon.org – National Watermelon

Promotion Board

Q www.health.gov/dietaryguidelines - Dietary Guidelines

Q www.eatright.org – American Dietetic Association

Resources most sponsors may have on their shelves (if you dust them off!)

Berry Berry Good

Tickle Your Appetite

USDA Child Care Recipes

Nibbles for Health

Building Blocks for Fun and

Healthy Meals

Good for You

Power Panther Preschool

More Than Mud Pies

CARE Connections

OFF To a Good Start

How to Teach Nutrition to Kids

Nutrition Activities for

Preschoolers

Integrating Nutrition Education Into

Everyday Learning Field Trips/Visitors:

Trips to the local farmer’s market, grocery store, farm/orchard – If you can’t take children out of the home, visitors from different places can come and talk about what they do, how they grow foods, process foods, etc.

Art:

Have several pictures of different foods for the children to paste onto paper (or sticky contact paper) to make their own placemats. You can use one food group or several at a time.

Bring in fruits and vegetables to teach the colors of the rainbow and then have the children draw, color or paint a rainbow on a large piece of paper. They can then either draw pictures or paste pictures from magazines of fruits and vegetables on the matching color of the rainbow.

Science:

Have a tasting activity in which the children taste tiny samples of one food that has been prepared in several ways. For example, raw apple slices, apple juice, applesauce, and dried apple slices. Talk about how each form of the food is different or the same.

Try sprouting some of the seeds that are found in the raw fruits and vegetables the children eat. The children can help plant them in cups filled with potting soil. Use seeds that spout easier like pumpkin seeds, avocado pits, and grapefruit seeds. Be sure to label the cups for the seeds that you plant.

Teach hand washing as lesson on “germs”.

Take a field trip to a local dairy farm to learn how milk goes from farm to table. Literature:

Have children make their own books that show pictures of their favorite foods. Or…make books of foods of a certain color, foods that are eaten with a spoon, a fork, with fingers, and so on. Add these books to the book center.

Read the picture book “Bread, Bread, Bread” by Ann Morris. As you read, see if any of the children have eaten the breads in the pictures. Talk about the common breads and the breads that are new to the children.

Dramatic Play:

Have many healthful pretend foods for children to play with. As well, have empty food containers in the pretend play center (oatmeal, raisins, orange juice, etc.) Have the children make “meals” using the pretend food s and empty containers.

Music:

”Smart Fruit and Veggie Songs” is a 16-song CD which promotes healthy eating and teaches children of all ages to have fun with fruits and vegetables. Pass apples, gather fruit, pick berries, sing, dance, and keep active with upbeat rhythms. The CD was written and produced by Angela Russ, Russ Invision Company, www.abridgeclub.com.

Sing a food song that the children help you make up using the tune for “Row, Row, Row Your Boat”. Instead of using the usual words, sing these words:

Stir, stir, stir the soup

Stir it all day long Add some _____________ Soup will make us strong

Let the children take turn filling in the names of foods that will go in the soup. Allow them to say any food they want and everyone can laugh. Take a taste together as the soup becomes a silly soup.

Fine & Gross Motor Skills:

Play the Tossed Vegetables Game: Draw a tic-tac-toe board with nine blocks on a large poster board. Cut out pictures of fruits and vegetables from magazines and glue one in each block. Make a beanbag by putting ½ cup dried beans or peas in a zip-lock plastic bag and close. Place the game board on the floor and have the children stand in a circle a few feet from the board. Let them take turns throwing the beanbag on the board. Have them name the fruit or vegetable, name the color, and ask them to describe it (e.g. crunchy or soft).

Math:

Use the Food Guide Pyramid for practice in counting number of servings.

Have children record how many fruits and vegetables they eat every day with a sticker chart.

Nutrition Education Grab and Go Lesson

Steps to Planning a Nutrition

Education Activity

Follow these helpful steps when planning nutrition education activities to have

with your children. You may find it easy to use the Nutrition Education Activity

Planning Form beginning on page 3. You can use the form with CARE

Connection nutrition education activities.

Step 1: Why Think about what the children should learn from the activity.

Answer the question, “Why are we doing this activity?”

Step 2: What Decide on an activity that will teach the children about the

topic chosen. Activities such as arts and crafts, games, songs

cooking or role-playing are popular with children. You might

use a variety of activities for one topic. Think about how to

explain the activity to the children. Decide what you will do

and what the children will do.

Step 3: How Make a list of the things you will need. Thinking through each step of the activity

will help to make sure your list is complete. Assemble the resources you will need

well before the activity is to begin. Do not expect the children to wait patiently

while you prepare for the activity.

Step 4: When Plan a time for the activity when children are alert and eager to learn. Keep in

mind that children who are hungry or tired will not pay attention well. It is good

idea to use quiet activities before mealtimes to introduce information about food

and eating. These are called transitional activities.

Nutrition Education Grab and Go Lesson Steps to Planning a Nutrition Education Activity

Step 5: Do the Activity Remember nutrition education activities should be fun, both for the children and

for you. Begin by asking the children some questions to help find out what they

already know. Questions can help build the children’s interest and enthusiasm.

Children like to know what to expect, so be

sure to explain to them what they will be

doing in the activity.

Step 6: Follow-Up on the Activity Plan ways to reinforce the learning after

the activity is completed. Repetition helps

children remember and use what they have

learned. Think of some ways you can refer

to the activity at a later time. Present a

different activity on the same topic at a later

time. Build on the original topic idea and

time. Build on the original topic idea and

add something new to it. Lead the children

in a discussion about what they learned

earlier. Songs and chants are excellent ways

to reinforce learning.

Planning a Nutrition Education Activity Why: Equipment: Food:

What: Do the Activity: Preparation:

Tasting Passport Activity

Passport Photo: Name:

Age:

New Foods:

Resource: Nutrition Explorations

Why: How: Equipment How: Food Students will be able to:

State that we use a passport when we travel to other countries.

Decorate a passport to use with tasting activities.

Copy of Tasting Passport cover (bright paper) Crayons or markers Stamps or stickers for passport Stapler to attach extra sheets

None

What: Do the Activity: DO AHEAD:

Students will make passports that are stamped each time they “taste” a new food.

1. Begin by asking students if they have ever traveled to another country. Ask if anyone knows what a passport is.

2. Explain that when people travel to other countries, they must have passports. When we visit another country, such as Mexico or Japan, our passport is stamped when we arrive and when we leave.

3. Write the name of the food students tasted on the chart.

4. Tell students there are many different foods in the world. Since they will be trying some of these foods during the next few months, they are going to make a Tasting Passport. Each time they take a “taste” of a new food, they will get their passports stamped. Show the students a sample Tasting Passport and the stickers/stamps inside.

5. Attach each child’s photo to his/her passport. Have each child decorate the cover using crayons or markers. Collect the passports and save them for your next Tasting Activity.

Print and duplicate the Tasting Passport Cover (1 for each child) Put on brightly colored paper.