You Are What You Eat From Your Head to Your Feet!

45 minutes

Intended for 25 guests, ages 3-5 with their adult

Supplies

"Food for Thought: The Complete Book of Concepts for Growing Minds" by Freyman
"Food Fight" by Shields
"Happy Healthy Monsters" by Sesame Street
25 bread photos
25 cereal photos
25 vegetable photos
25 fruit photos
25 dairy photos
25 protein photos
25 person cut outs
25 heart cut outs
25 triangle cut outs
Apple slices
Baby carrots
Glue sticks

Program

This program is about moving and shaking and being healthy.  Get ready to hokey your pokey and point out where your head, shoulders, knees and toes are. 

When guests arrive, do that Hokey Pokey.  You can ask for suggestions what to "put in."

Then read "Food for Thought" but only the counting part.  Point out how all the characters are made of food, and ask if the children can identify what kinds of food the animals are made of. 

Next read "Food Fight."  The kids love this one.  It's silly and funny and the rhyming verse is terribly cute. 

Then have them get up again, and do some Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes.  Work it! 

Then read "Happy Healthy Monsters."  This is a great interactive book that gets the children moving to different activities on the page.  When it says, get a health snack, have the children grab the carrot sticks and apple slices. 

Next on the the craft.  The Food Pyramid Person, which shows that you are what you eat!