August Tip of the Month
Drink Think!

Make a healthy SPLASH with a Drink Think. Choose water or low fat milk more often.
Activity Idea: Healthy Milk Tastes

  
Source: Healthy Kids Challenge, Food Museum booklet
Description: Taste testing different kinds of milk
Grades: K-5

Supplies:

 
• Flipchart or blackboard
• Skim, 2% and whole milk for tasting
• 3-3 oz. cups per person (for milk samples)

Elkhart High School Girls Basketball Team show milk mustache smiles!

Directions:
1. In a classroom or group setting, gather kids and ask: How many different kinds of milk have you tried, i.e., skim, 2%, or whole?
2.  Ask: What kind of milk is your favorite?
3.  Take an informal survey with a show of hands and develop a pie graph using the flipchart or blackboard for the % preference for each kind of milk (include a “no milk” option if necessary, to total 100%).
4. On the bottom of the cup, identify each type of milk using the following code: A (whole), B (skim), C (2%) and pour milk for each person to taste.
5. Check for milk allergies and have the kids who can, taste sips of skim, 2% and whole milk.
6. Explain you are conducting a “blindfold taste test”, i.e., kids will be tasting milk without knowing whether it is skim, 2% or whole.
7.

Ask kids to taste each sample of milk, and without looking at the bottom of the cup, place their “favorite” on a table.
8. Now look at the bottom of each cup to see what was preferred and determine % preference for each kind of milk. Compare these results with the first preference survey. Were there any surprises?
9. Discuss how all milk has calcium, protein and other nutrients your body needs, but fat content is different for each.
10.

Discuss healthy reasons for drinking lower fat milk (less fat for heart healthy advantages and fewer calories).

 

This activity is found on page 21 of Food Museum. 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.