December Monthly Action Idea
Breakfast GO POWER!
Teachers making a healthy
foods chain!
| Activity Idea: | Build a Breakfast Chain | ||
| Source: | HKC A La Cart Breakfast Fun booklet | ||
| Description: | Kids identify breakfast foods from MyPyramid food groups | ||
| Grade: | 4-5 | ||
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Directions:
- Show kids the MyPyramid poster and explain the food groups.
- Have kids:
- Write the foods they ate for breakfast that day.
- Draw a MyPyramid and write their breakfast foods in the appropriate food groups.
- Use the following color code for paper strips to represent food groups in which they categorized their breakfast foods.
- Grains--orange; Veggies--green; Fruits--red; Milk--blue; Oils--yellow;
Meat & Beans--purple
- Grains--orange; Veggies--green; Fruits--red; Milk--blue; Oils--yellow;
- Choose 1 strip for each serving of food eaten. (For example: A breakfast consisting of a slice of toast with margarine, a container of yogurt, and a glass of juice--the student would select 1 orange strip, 1 red strip, 1 yellow strip and 1 blue strip.)
- Using a glue stick, form their own (Breakfast) chain with the paper strips they choose.
- After making the chain, ask students the following questions:
- Does their chain represent all 6 colors of the Food Guide Pyramid? If not, which colors are missing?
- What (if anything) would they need to add to their breakfast so that all colors are represented on their breakfast chain?
This activity is found on page 21 of the A La Cart Breakfast Fun booklet. For more activity ideas like the one above, check out HKC resource materials. See the Online Store for descriptors and to view the Table of Content and booklet sample pages.