April Tip of the Month
Snack Attack!

Recognize added sugar and fat in foods as a step in making choices for healthy balance. Choose foods with added sugar and fat less often or in smaller amounts.
Activity Idea: Sugar in Snack Foods

  
Source: Healthy Kids Challenge, Food Museum booklet
Description: Kids will learn to recognize sugar in favorite snack foods
Grades: K-5

Supplies:

 

 2-inch brightly colored cardboard squares; labels from foods that contain sugar, i.e., a snack cup cake, candy bar, granola bar, donut or popular fruit drink
Fun with Healthy Snack Preparation at Lane County Library

Directions:
1.   Divide the group into teams of 4-6 kids.
2.  Give each team a food label and approximately 20 cardboard squares.
3.  Ask teams to read the label to find the grams of sugar in one serving (assist younger kids as needed) and count squares to equal that number.
4.  Explain 4 squares represent 1 teaspoon (1 tsp) sugar.
5. 

Ask: “How many teaspoons of sugar are found in each serving of their food?”
6.  Ask teams to set up a “display” with labels and squares for other teams to see!



This activity is found on page 50 of the Food Museum booklet. For more activity ideas like the one above, check out HKC resource materials. See the order page for descriptors and to view the Table of Content and booklet sample pages.