Food Sources

• 1.

  Find out about any food allergies and dietary restrictions. When this project is done with children ages 3 and younger, ask children to tear food pictures from recycled magazines. Four-year-olds may be able to draw a bit more realistically and use scissor

• 2.

  Build children's understanding about food sources with hands-on experiences. Tour farms. Grow edible plants such as lettuce. Read about gardens and farming. Search the Internet. Talk with gardeners. Tour food-processing plants.

• 3.

  Prepare a variety of healthy foods. Find out what happens before food reaches the store (how bees make honey, how wheat is ground into flour).

• 4.

  Think of several yummy, healthy foods. With want plants are they made? What animals?

• 5.

  With Crayola® Washable Markers, draw pictures of servings of your favorite foods on white paper.

• 6.

  Cut out the food pictures with Crayola® Scissors if you are 4 or older. An adult cuts if you are younger, or you may tear pictures from magazines. Glue the foods to a paper plate with Crayola® School Glue. Next to each food, write whether it is a plant,

• 7.

  Write recipes for your foods on index cards. Share recipes with friends.

Benefits

• Asking Questions
• Letters, Numbers & Words
• Reading Pictures
• Talking
• Vocabulary
• Physical: Eye - Hand Coordination
• Physical: Healthy Habits
• Physical: Senses
• Physical: Small Muscles
• Social & Emotional: Flexibility
• Social & Emotional: Making Friends
• Thinking: Creating