Let’s learn about eating healthy – FOOD PYRAMID!

This is such a fun topic to discuss with children. It is really interesting to hear their developing perspective on food.

“Eating too much sweet things is not good because you get ouchy/tummy ache/cavity.” (parents doing their job.)

“Lettuce is good for caterpillars but I’m not caterpillars so I don’t like it.” (cuteness overload seriously lol)

In my class we went broad on the topic first – healthy and unhealthy things. After that I started introducing different food groups and easing them into the food pyramid. They were really good at identifying the groups but seemed to struggle a little with the idea of grains.

We played various games and listened to fun food songs.

After spending a week or so exploring different kinds of food, we decided to make our classroom food pyramid – a BIG one! Children were super excited about this idea 🙂

We decided to divide the class into 6 groups and each group was responsible for each food group. We made as many things as we can think of within the food group. For example, Team Vegetables was responsible for drawing and cutting out various vegetables like tomatoes, cucumber, pumpkin, etc. Team Grains was in charge of drawing and cutting out bread, pasta, cereal, etc.

After we finished making tons of these food items, we mixed it all up in a box. During circle time the next morning, we made a big pyramid out of craft paper roll and used tape to indicate the borders of different group.

I then presented the box full of food items and asked the children to glue each item into the correct area of the pyramid. They were having so much fun during this activity 🙂