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Food and Nutrition Activities

It's almost impossible not to involve your preschooler in daily food activities. It's natural for preschoolers to help prepare food in the kitchen, choose groceries, pick vegetables from your garden, and plan meals. Embrace your preschooler's interest in the important activity of feeding the family. You will be rewarded with a preschooler who learns about the food cycle, spends quality time preparing food, and grows up with a healthy attitude toward food.

Featured Food and Nutrition Activities

Preschool Food Activity - Make Nut Butter
With so many varieties of nuts and seeds available, why limit your preschooler to just peanut butter? Make nut butter with your preschooler and show how nuts and seeds can be transformed into a creamy spread. Use the butter to make tasty and nutritious meals and snacks or substitute for peanut butter in recipes.

Preschool Food Activity - Indoor Garden Mural
The preschool indoor garden mural brings the garden inside as preschoolers learn about agriculture and how food grows. If you don't have space or time for a real garden, make the indoor garden mural and add fruits, vegetables, beans, grains and nuts. All you need is a large roll of paper or poster board, markers, crayons and food pictures.

Food Group Games
Play these two food group games at preschool, in the kitchen, or waiting in line. By basing simple games on foods and food groupings, your preschooler will learn about how foods go together, food traits, and how fun it is to play games with the family!

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Featured Preschool Product 


Check out these two brand new board books by Sara Anderson - Fruits and Vegetables. If you can't get your picky preschooler to eat lots of fruits or vegetables, read about them instead! You and your preschooler can discover dimensions besides flavor - color, shape, names, number, and more.

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Pine cone Christmas Tree
Preschoolers will love making these open ended pine cone Christmas trees. Let preschoolers use their imagination and decorate their Christmas trees using a variety of leftover sequins, beads, and other craft supplies.

Apple Stacks Preschool Game
Teach preschool math by counting apples! Addition and Subtraction should be fun for preschoolers. Apple Stacks also makes a great Active Preschool Game or Seasonal Preschool Game!

Thanksgiving Snack Hunt Preschool Game
Why should the Easter Bunny have all the fun? Thanksgiving Snack Hunt is as much fun for preschoolers as an Easter Egg hunt. Plus, you can play this seasonal game no matter where you celebrate!