Encourage children to eat fruits and vegetables by doing a fun home activity. Check out the step-by-step instructions to our Montessori-based delicious healthy food for kids craft for your little picky eaters.
Childhood is the critical and most relevant period in which children learn and develop fundamental skills that provide them with different tools to face the world.
Given the importance of this stage, it is highly recommended to make sensory activities with children early to support and reinforce skills and abilities.
When we propose exercises to children, we contribute to adequate growth, development, and maturation of their abilities.
In this way, they learn and realize the necessary skills that, in the future, will provide them with tools to face the world.
Additionally, we provide more exploration opportunities through sensory activities, putting different colors, textures, sounds, and/or movements within their reach. These are stimuli from the environment that, in turn, contribute to the development of the central nervous system.
To help build their ideas and generate learning about their body's relationship with food and their environment, parents could propose a sequence of organized activities.
When they carry out these exercises, it also contributes to their emotional well-being. They can enter into emotional intimacy with their parents through all the senses and contribute to their social development.
This is how the game has a fundamental role when it comes to stimulating the senses. It is an ingredient of happiness that will have meaning in adulthood.
Children can receive information from their environment through the senses. The information gathered through sensory activities is received first by the senses and later by the brain.
When we carry out these exercises, there is multisensory stimulation; therefore, it is crucial to have this kind of space for children.
THEME: HEALTHY FOOD FOR KIDS
HOW DO WE DO THIS ACTIVITY?
Topic: Sensory
Age: 2-4-year-old children
Goal: Through this healthy food for kids activity, kids can strengthen their senses and understand personal progress.
Difficulty level: Average. This healthy food for kids activity is designed for boys and girls to carry out autonomously and independently with an adult's surveillance.
Skills:
- Hand movements dexterity
- Imagination
- Following instructions
- Emotional intelligence
- Focus
- Creativity
- Independence
- Reasoning
MATERIALS
- A peeled tangerine
- A chopped kiwi
- A sliced banana
- A tablespoon
- A big flat plate
ACTIVITY DEVELOPMENT
Step 1:
Use the tablespoon to take the pieces of kiwi one by one and place them on the flat plate to simulate a palm tree's leaves.
Step 2:
Use the tablespoon to take the banana and simulate the trunk of a palmtree.
Step 3:
Use the tablespoon to take the tangerine and simulate the ground where the palm tree is located.
ACTIVITY RESULT
A healthy food for kids, a palm tree made with fruits
FREE PRINTABLE PRESCHOOL WORKSHEETS
Another activity that you can do to introduce healthy food for kids is through new worksheets. Click the link below to download our free printable healthy food worksheets for preschoolers.
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HOW DO WE DO THIS HEALTHY FOOD FOR KIDS ACTIVITY WITH CHILDREN OF DIFFERENT AGES?
CHANGES FOR CHILDREN UNDER 2 YEARS OLD
If younger children cannot hold the tablespoon, they may ask for help from their parents.
A variant is to draw a palm tree or a palm tree silhouette on a different plate so you can tell children how and where to place each piece of fruit.
Children can pick up the fruit with their fingers.
CHANGES FOR CHILDREN OLDER THAN 4
This healthy food for kids activity can be done with older children. With their parent's supervision, children older than four could prepare pancakes. They can decorate the pancakes with the fruits to create different images.
At the same time, we can talk about the benefits of each of the foods we use and even where we get these fruits.
In this way, we will carry out a kids' activity with a higher level of difficulty, considering children's development and abilities.
VIDEO DESCRIPTION – DELICIOUS HEALTHY FOOD FOR KIDS
This healthy food for kids video contains a detailed description of the "DELICIOUS HEALTHY FOOD" activity created for children 2-4 years old to do a sensory activity with fruits.
This healthy food for kids activity will allow children to develop hand movements, talent, imagination, following instructions, emotional intelligence, focus, creativity, and independence.
Children will need a peeled tangerine, a chopped kiwi, a sliced banana, a tablespoon, and a big flat plate to develop the activity.
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