The purpose of this lesson is to introduce a new food to the children in your classroom. The more times children are exposed to new foods, the more likely they are to eat and enjoy these foods in the future.
Overview
In this lesson, children will help prepare a healthy snack.
Learning Objectives
Children will complete the fourth of four kiwi tasting experiences.
Children will prepare a healthy snack.
Teaching Objectives
Teachers will model healthy eating behavior for children.
Teaching Tips
Encourage each child to take one bite of kiwi.
Remember that the more times children are exposed to a new food the more likely they are to develop a taste preference for that food.
Children are more likely to try a new food if an adult models the behavior!
Prep Info
Equipment Required
Materials/Supplies
* Optional
Before the Lesson
Immediately before the lesson, ask the children to put on their chef aprons, chef hats, and wash their hands.
Activity
Introduction
Remind children that anytime chefs make food, they wash their hands; and great chefs always taste the food that they make.
Words to Use
Activity Description
Prepare the fruit stop lights with the children in your classroom.
Explain to children that they are going to make a stoplight out of fruit. Ask the children if they know what a stoplight is. Explain that a stoplight tells people who are driving and walking across a street when to go and when to stop.
Share with your class that stop lights are made up of three colors: red, orange/yellow, and green. Ask the children what the different colors mean.
Demonstrate to the children how to make a stoplight out of fruit.
Place strawberry pieces on the top of a plate and form into a circle to represent a red light.
Place small pieces of banana below the strawberries to represent a yellow light.
Finally, add pieces of kiwi below the banana pieces to represent a green light.
Ask children to make their own fruit stoplights.
Encourage each child to take at least one bite of each fruit.
Summary
Enrichment
Practice crossing a pretend street outside. Call out different colors or name the different colored fruit in substitution of a real traffic light.
Attention Teachers!
Following this activity, please fill out the teacher’s weekly log form for this lesson.
Weekly Log
Attention Teachers!
Following this activity, please fill out the teacher’s weekly log form for this lesson.
