Monday, June 13, 2011

Nutrition Activities for Kids

Creating Some Interesting Nutrition Activities for Kids

Do you want your kids understand and love to learn about the nutrition? If you do, you must find out to them some interesting nutrition activities for kids. As we know that knowledge about nutrition is important for kids. Nevertheless, sometimes it is hard for us to get suitable lesson about good activities for kids.

Not just as teachers but also as parents, introducing nutrition in their early ages is necessary, so they will understand why their parents or their teachers ask them to eat some nutrient foods everyday. You can look for it through internet to get the best method relating to nutrition activities for kids. You can adapt one of the methods about activities for kids that not only proper to their age and grade also interesting and entertaining.

Activities for kids must be relevant for their age grade, for example, for pre kindergarten, kindergarten and primary school. Different group means different method of learning. Here some examples of giving creative nutrition activities for kids:

A. Coloring picture
Coloring picture relates to nutrient foods. for example coloring fruits, vegetables, meat, fish, milk and dairy foods, and others. Guide them to coloring the nutrient food as the original color. For example, green for avocado, spinach, broccoli, basil, and orange for carrot, potato, and so on. While you explaining about the nutrition of each food to them.


B. Puzzle
Most children like to have puzzle. Create some puzzles about nutrition.

C. Nutrition pyramid
Explain one by one to kids about the food and the nutrition contain.

D. Visiting grocery store
Another of nutrition activities for kids is asking them to visit the grocery store, where you can explain one by one about the nutrient foods.

D. Eating nutrient foods
You can plan this program together with all family members, while explaining why human body needs nutrient foods.

Actually, still many other nutrition activities for kids, you can create them as many as possible to attract their interest according to nutrition. You should more creative, and find out about what your children like most. For example, whether they like indoor or outdoor activities or you combine both of them. When planning nutrition activities for kids, you should also consider about their age and their interest according the activities.