Preschool Food and Nutrition Themes

Food, cooking and healthy eating are all great learning themes for the preschool classroom. In our world of processed foods, fast food and silly kids' food, exposing preschoolers to real food lays an important foundation for healthy eating. Simple hands-on activities with food offer opportunities to work on counting, color recognition, shape recognition as well as fine and gross motor skills. Make food and nutrition an ongoing theme in your preschool classroom with these theme ideas, tips and activities.

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Preschool Food Theme - Oranges
Explore different kinds of oranges, how oranges grow, and how the navel orange got its name with the preschool orange food theme. Peel oranges, juice oranges, and tear orange peels for more sensory and motor skill activities. Oranges are in season now so this is a great in-season food theme.

Preschool Food Theme Basics
Start using food and nutrition themes in your preschool classroom with these ideas for food activities and questions. Explore the world of food during each part of your preschool day, from circle time to art to snack time.

Apple Tasting Activity
Do an apple tasting activity with your preschoolers to explore the flavors, textures, colors, and sizes of this familiar fruit. Use this food activity in your preschool circle time or fall theme. You can even talk about where each apple variety grows and don't forget to include apples from backyard apple trees!

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.

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Fruits & Vegetables Poster Set of 14
Display healthy and colorful food throughout your preschool classroom. Each poster is 19" x 14" and the set is great for wall art or for use during preschool food lessons. This set of 14 posters includes apples, banana, grapes, orange, watermelon, strawberries, peaches, grapefruit, corn, tomato, broccoli, carrots, peas and lettuce.

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Rock Through the Alphabet - A is for Apple
A is for Apple and preschoolers will love learning about the letter "A" through these simple hands-on activities. Teach preschoolers about the letter "A" with exciting circle time activities, arts and crafts projects, math and science activities, music and movement, and pretend play.

Healthy Talk About Exercise
What messages are you sending to preschoolers when you talk about exercise? Is your exercise talk "healthy" for preschoolers to hear? Little things you say can have long lasting effects on a preschooler’s attitude about exercise. Is exercise fun? Is sweat yucky? Is exercise something to hate? Learn to "talk healthy about exercise" and use language that sends positive messages about exercise to preschool children.

Supermarket Science Activity
Science lessons are all around us as is proven by this preschool supermarket science activity. Focus your preschooler on identification, classification and weight in the produce aisle and discuss the temperature change in the freezer aisle while you gather your groceries. Your preschooler will be introduced to some fundamental science principles and you keep your sanity.