I need to do a project and it has to be about a health or nutriton activity that I can do with preschoolers?

Question

Does anyone have any ideas?

Answer 1

can you make a healthy snack w/them? check to make sure there are no food allergies and something they can do w/little or no help

Answer 2

Young Children’s Tasting Party
From:
http://www.After-School-Care.com

You need:
Canned pumpkin
Grapes (green and red seedless)
Apples (various kinds
Pears
Canned corn
Table knives
Paper plates
Optional: Oak tag/card stock paper, Tacks or push pins

1. Help children cut the fruits and vegetables into small pieces and place on paper plates.

2. Ask children to observe and comment on the differences and similarities of texture, color, size, shape. etc.

3. Give each child a paper plate. Let them select from the variety of foods to taste. Encourage children to tast the unfamiliar as well as favorites.

4. Have a discussion after the tasting party.
Talk about how the food looks, tastes, smells and feels. Encourage the use of such words as sweet, sour, bumpy, smooth and so on.


Another version is to do the above with the food preparation and then...

1. Draw four columns on the poster board. Title it "Tasting Chart." Make the first column wide enough to write the recipe or food name. Make the others wide enough to write a number.

2. Write "Recipe" at the top of the first column. Draw a smiling face for the second column and a frowning face for the third column. For the fourth column, draw a face with eyes and a "?" where the mouth should be.

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

Ask students raise their hands if they liked the food tasted. Have students help you count how many "likes" there are. Record the number in the smiling face column. (actual stickers can also be used to keep count in each column)

Then ask students to raise their hands if they "did not like" the food. Record the number in the frowning face column.
Finally, ask how many did not taste the food. Record the number in the "?" column.

4. Discuss the chart, talking about how many more people "like" or "don't like" the food. Congratulate the children for taking a taste. Remind them that sometimes they will not like a new taste, and that's okay. What is important is for children to be "food tasters" and to always give nutritious foods a try.

5. Use this chart to take a tasting survey each time you do a food tasting activity. Point out that some people like a certain taste and that other people do not. Congratulate children on the number of "new" foods they have tried during the year.

The second part is taken from: http://www.nutritionexplorations.org/educators/lessons/chef-combo/chef-act-tastingsurvey.asp

Answer 3

i did this project with a group of preschoolers... they loved it! and learned alot!.... i work with 3 and 4 year olds in a daycare. We were discussing staying healthy by brushing our teeth. First i had a coloring sheet about the dentist. i found it online. Then we discussed why its good to brush our teeth and what would happen if we didnt. Well to make it more visual each child got 4 apple slices. a hand full of tiny marshmellows and a handfull of raisins. They then smear peanut butter onto the apple slices and on 2 halfs but nothing but a row of marshmellows.... that makes a healthy mouth that brushes their teeth!...the next one take the other 2 halfs put on some peanut butter and then add some marshmellows and some raisins( raisins rotten teeth) this is not only a neat project but the kids seem to learn more when things are hands on. i choose peanut butter beacause i couldnt think of anything else that would hold the marshmellows and raisins on.... but after the project was done i thought about using cream cheese with red food coloring in it so that it would look more like gums!...... i hope this is kinda along the lines of what you were looking for! hope it helps :)

Answer 4

Dental: Have the guessing game. Have a bag w/different items relating to health/dental. They reach in and feel the item and have to identify it before they pull it out and look. Then explain why its healthy or not healthy. Items: Orange, healthy snack;toothbrush, healthy esp import. to brush b/4 bed;lollipop, not a healthy snack - sugar stays on the teeth-always brush after a sugary snack; pear, healthy snack and a natural tooth cleanser; apple, healthy,natural tooth cleanser good for when you can't brush;toothpaste, only the size of a pea is needed, etc. Also you can make up a match game with healthy and unhealthy snacks on them and the child says whether its healthy or not. You can cut out different foods from magazines and have them paste a healthy meal on a paper dinner plate. You can make up a calendar that they can put a sticker on a.m./p.m. each time they brush. For more ideas if you contact some of the toothpaste companies sometimes they send you pamphlets, etc.

Answer 5

Teach a basic simple food pyramid.
Have different cut outs of different foods and have them sort into the different nutritional categories.. or if that is too hard just sort into healthy food and unhealthy food or growing food and not growing food.
There are also some great lesson plans on germs and the importance of washing your hands thoroughly and frequently.
Here is a coloring page and book for all grades on this page including preschool.
http://www.johnson-county.com/publichealth/infDisease/germFighters.shtml

Answer 6

health- get a bucket of water and put dish soap in it to make alot of foam/bubbles. Have the kids put their hand in the bubbles and teach them how to wash their hands.

health- use a paper plate and make a person. glue on eyes,nose and a big smile. Have the kids use toothbrushes and sqeeze a little toothpaste on the big smile and have kids pretend to brush its teeth.

nutrition: Have a 5 sense day where the have to smell, taste, feel, alot of different food.

Answer 7

Make pzza bagles, tomatoe sauce with italian seasoning, let the kids stir it. Cut up ham, onions and belle peppers and let the kids build their own bagles, then grate the cheese. While you do this and they put the bagles together its a good opportunity to point out the nutritional value - why we need carbs (bagle), veggies and protein. Watch them learn- and eat.

Answer 8

health activity

teaching them the importance of brushing their teeth

nutrition activity

try the basic food groups and explain why they are so important to eat and why they are good for your body;)