Miller County - Family and Consumer Science
Healthy Snacks Make Healthy Kids
Roll a Snack
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A wide variety of foods make healthy snack choices. Snacks can be single
foods such as carrot sticks or an apple or combination foods like a peanut
butter sandwich or a slice of pizza. This interactive game helps young children
to name healthy snack choices.
Supplies
One 7-inch square shipping box, construction paper in six different colors,
food pictures, glue, scissors, clear contact paper, markers
Directions
1. On each side of the cube, glue a different color
of construction paper and write the food group name. For example:
Grain (brown), vegetable (green), fruit (yellow), milk (white), meat
(red), combination (purple). If desired, glue on pictures of food
that correspond with each food group.
2. Players sit in a circle. At a signal from the
leader, the players begin passing the die around the circle in one
direction. When the leader calls, "Change!" the die should be moved
in the other direction. When the leader calls, "Roll!" the player
holding the die rolls it and names a snack fro the food group shown
on the die. That player becomes the leader and begins the game
again.
3. To increase the challenge, write names of snacks
down as they are called and give points for each new snack.
This material was taken from "A Pyramid of Snacks", Cornell Cooperative
Extension, Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, 1998.
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