Food Theme

Pratt's Educational Resources
ABC Activities
The ABC's of Snacking
Garden Theme


Food
Literary: ECE, Children's Literature, and FHE Resource Packet: The Five Senses

Miscellaneous Books Using Foods
Laura Numeroff Books
Eric Carle Books

Music: "Me Gusta comer/ I Like To Eat" from "Amigos".
Tune Of: "Apples & Bananas" (the beginning part)
Cut out pictures of the foods from food ads, from the web, or other resources.  Glue them on 3x5" index cards.  Laminate or place clear laminate paper on the cards.  Use with the song.

Game: Make an extra set to play a matching or concentration game.

Go to Tips for Speaking Spanish to learn to pronounce these words.
In Spanish:
Me gusta comer, comer, comer
tomates y lechuga.

Repite

Other verses:
peras y manzanas
frutas y ensaladas
platanos y uvas

In English:
I like to eat, eat, eat
tomatoes and lettuce.

Repeat

pears and apples
fruits and salads
bananas and grapes

You can have sing the child's favorite food for more verses.

Activities and Printables

Old Testament Food (matching game)

FHE & Primary Idea Box: Word of Wisdom Talk about foods and products that are good and bad for your health.

CyberLibrary Facts about different plants and animals.
abcteach: Food Theme Unit
Including activity pages, worksheets, songs, and more.
Shape Books/Coloring Pages
Fruit: apple, bananas, blackberries, blueberries, cherries, grapes, lemons, oranges, peaches, pear, raspberries, strawberries, watermelon, Fruit
Food: Bread, egg, flour, pickle, Ham Slice, Tomato, Swiss Cheese
Healthy Snacks: Peanut, Peanut Butter, Popcorn, Milk Carton
Fast Food: candy, chocolate bar, pizza, ice cream cone, milkshake, sundae, toffee apple, Cookie, Submarine/Hero, Sandwich
Agricultural Communications Search Engine
Search for food to color (large images).
Candy USA History, FAQ, statistics, nutrition and  health, trivia, Just for Kids (including Educational Resources), recipes, information, publications (pdf files; including candy crafts),  and more.
ColoringBookFun.com: Food Coloring Pages apple basket, apple slice, asparagus, bagel, blueberries, bread, butter, cake, candy, candy apple, candy bar, cantaloupe, carrots, celery, cereal, cheese, cheese & crackers, cherries, chili, Chinese chips, coconut, coffee, cookie, corn, croissant, cucumber, danish, donut, drumstick, eggplant, eggs, fish, garlic, grapes, ham, hamburger, hoagie, hot dog, ice cream, juice, lemon, lettuce, lime, lobster, melon, milk, mushroom, nectarine, onion, orange, pancake, pasta, pea, pear, picnic basket, pineapple, pizza, popcorn, popsicle, potato, pretzel, pumpkin, radish, raisins, raspberry, rolls, scallions, shrimp, snow peas, soda, steak, strawberries, taco, tomato, turkey, turnip, watermelon, water pitcher.
Clipart: Food Apple, cake, steak, carrot, cheese, cheesecake, chicken, dessert (under desert), egg, (cracked egg with a sunny side up egg under it), hotdog, icecream, milk, orange, orange juice, pear, pizza, salad, toast (in a toaster), and vegetables.
Clipartguide.com - food clip art
Connected Kids - Coloring Book
Dental Health Month 2003: Crest Activity Sheets for Ages 4-10 (Lots).  (There are no food activity sheets in "Ages 6-7".)
Dole 5 A Day Coloring Book
Dole- 5 A Day Recipes, lesson plans, fruit and vegetable facts, fun things, etc.
Head Start Nutrition Education Curriculum Activites, songs, recipes, graphic resources, picture recipes, and more.
Heathly Choices for Kids @ Washington Apples Lessons, activities, coloring pages, and worksheets for: Eat a Wide Variety of Foods; Choose a Healthy and Active Lifestyle; Eat Plenty of Fruits, Vegetables, & Grains; and Choose Healthy Snacks.  There are different pictures of: dairy, fruit, grain, meat, and vegetables at Level 2: Chapter 1 (pdf).
Mann's Coloring Book Apple, Banana, Broccoli, Carrots, Cauliflower, Grapes, Milk, Mushrooms, Peach, Watermelon.
Preschool Coloring Book: Food Apple, Apple Core, Banana, Bread, Candy, Carrot, Cherry, Chips, Corn, Eggplant, Fast Food, Fruit, Gingerbread Cookie, Grapes, Hoagie, Hot Dog, Ice Cream, Ice Cream Bar, Ice Cream Sundae, Jell-O, Lemon, Onion, Orange, Peach, Pear, Pepper, Pizza, Popcorn, Strawberry, Swiss Cheese, Tomato, Watermelon
 
Online Food Activities

Online Egg Activities

The Amazing Body
Baking Bread Story ( Bear) @ kidzclub
Barbie Cake Maker
Breakfast Story @ kidzclub
Dole5aday
Domino Sugar: Fun and  Games: Sweet Memory Game
The Enormous Carrot Story @ kidzclub Based from: "The Little Red Hen"
Food Art
Food Groups @ funschool
Green Eggs and Ham: Online Scramble (a puzzle)
Keebler: Hollow Tree - Games
Korky's Cookbook (Pizza) @ Sunshine Online
Let's Make Breakfast
LHS: Alien Juice Bar (Online Activity)
Mr. VegHead @ Rooney Design
My Health My World Games @ NIEHS
Plant Part Salad
Recipe Game @ DragonTales
Online Ice Cream Activities
Spuddering Baby Game (Potatoes) @ Idahoan
Veggie Match @ Whole Foods Vegetables & Fruits

Chocolate
Mini-Chocolate Lessons
Integrate these lessons all together.
Science Lesson:
Talk about the chocolate (where chocolate comes from and how different chocolates are made).  Go to Chocolate FAQ to find those answers.
Home Economics and Math Lesson:
Make a dessert located at dessert recipes or dairy-free dessert recipes.
Use those to practice fractions by either while preparing the recipes (double, triple, etc. the recipe) or cutting cake recipes into pieces.
You can expand this lesson more using language arts, art, or reading by drawing pictures and/or write about chocolate or what you made or ate and find a book to read about chocolate.

Candy USA
History, FAQ, statistics, nutrition and  health, trivia, Just for Kids (under Educational Resources, it has Careers in Candy and The Cocoa Tree-growing cocoa to manufacturing of chocolate), recipes, information, publications (Story of Chocoate, ...),  and more.

Juice
Snack: Drink juice.

Childfun.com - Juice Coloring Page
Mom's Network: Letter J Coloring Page
 
Online Activities
LHS: Alien Juice Bar
LHS Mostly Music: Juice Bottle Jingles

Peanut
Peanutsusa.com: Peanut Facts

Popcorn
Math: Count popcorn kernal before cooking them.
Cooking: Pop and eat popcorn

Music:
Popcorn! @ KIDiddles An action song.
LDS Church Music: Popcorn Popping (on the apricot tree)

Pickle
Games Kids Play - Pickle

Sugar
Domino Sugar

Foods From Animals
Foods From Animals
I Am Thankful for Animals, Primary 1, Lesson 12 @ lds.org

Egg Theme

Milk Products
Ice Cream 
I Scream For Ice Cream An activity from my sister.

Make ice cream.
My Own Ice Cream Machine
A picture recipe card.

Online Ice Cream Activities
Ice-cream Game
Keebler Creation Station: Cone-ology

Milk
Book:

HCFK: Level 2: Chapter 1 (pdf) Cheese, milk, yogurt, cottage cheese, and pudding.
Milk Coloring Page @ Coloringbookfun
Milk Coloring Page @ Mann's

Meat and Meat Group

Ham
Book: Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss

Hamburger

Book


This book is about digestion in the human body.

HCFK: Level 2: Chapter 1 (pdf) Steak, chicken, beans, fish, pork chop, peanut butter, and eggs.

Pork
National Pork Board: Food Fun For Kids

Salami
Snack: Eat salami.

Sausage
Cooking: Eat sausage.
Five Fat Sausages Rhyme @ jojoy.com

Grain Items and Desserts

Desserts

Cake
Decorate a Cake @ Outer-limit

Cookies

Books
        
Who Took the Cookies from the Cookie Jar by Bonnie Lass (Including sheet music and a game.)

Cooking: Make cookies located at: desserts or dairy-free desserts.

Fortune Cookies
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood: Picture Picture Factory Tours: How People Make Fortune Cookies
Video, still pictures, and online activity.

Cooking: Fortune Cookies @ lds.org

Pie
Rhymes
Enchanted Learning - Little Jack Horner  and Printout to Color

Games Kids Play - Pie

Cooking:
Make a pie.

Grain Items
HCFK: Level 2: Chapter 1 (pdf) Bread, cereal, popcorn, crackers, noodles, rice,  tortillas, and oatmeal.

Bread
ChildFun.com: Bread
Themes and Activities for Kids: Books, Activities/Fingerplays/Poem/Songs, Arts and Crafts Projects, and Recipes
See food for coloring pages.

Buns
Songs & Rhymes
Enchanted Learning - Hot Cross Buns
Hot Cross Buns! (Including a recipe.)

Cereal
Snack: Make a necklace using colored cold cereal.  Eat it.

Quick Bread
Cooking:
Make a quick bread using my Bread Recipes or Dairy-free Bread Recipes.  These include: biscuits, cinnamon crepes, fruit breads, muffins, pancakes, and sopaipillas.

Muffins
If You Give A Moose A Muffin
New York State Assempy - Muffin Coloring Page

Cooking:
Make muffins or dairy-free muffins

Music: Sing this song as you make muffins.
Music

The Muffin Man
From: England

Oh, do you know the muffin man,
The muffin man, the muffin man?
Oh, do you know the muffin man,
That lives in Drury Lane?

Oh, yes, I know the muffin man,...

Enchanted Learning - The Muffin Man

Muffin Pan Coin Toss
Have the children toss coins, into a clean tin muffin pan.  Have them count the coins (money).  1 cent..., 5 cents, 10 cents, etc.  This can be for older children.

Noodle
Cooking: Eat noodles.

Arts & Crafts:
Make a noodle necklace using colored large noodles with holes.

Colored Noodle Craft
Glue colored noodles onto a piece of construction paper.  You can make a pattern if you like.

You can color the noodles for these projects located at Crafts Recipes: Colored Pasta.

GusTown: Macaroni Art Game

Pancakes
Books:
If You Give A Pig A Pancake by Laura Joffe Numeroff
Pancakes, Pancakes! by Eric Carle
The Great Pancake Escape by Paul Many Children's Picture Books with a Pancake Theme

Music:
Pancakes @ KIDiddles

Cooking:
Make pancakes or dairy-free pancakes.
If you are using this with the book, If You Give A Pig A Pancake, put some maple syrup on them.

Harper Children's - If You Give A Pig A Pancake Coloring Pages
Two pictures go with this book.

If You Give A Pig a Pancake: Pick something for pig to wear, Word Seach and Maze @ Harper Children's

The Great Pancake Escape - Fun & Games
Including a maze, games, sheet music to go with the book, and an online puzzle link.

Pretzel
Cooking: Make pretzels or cinnamon pretzels.

Rice
Books
        
Rice Is Life by Rita Golden Gelman

ABC of Snacking: Rice
RiceRomp: US Rice Producers Association
Pratt Cookbook Find various rice recipes.

Spaghetti
Spaghetti Craft
Overcook some spaghetti. (If you want, add some food coloring to it to make it a different color.)  Let cool.  Make different designs on construction paper.  (Make sure it isn't piled up.)  Let dry.

Cooking: Eat spaghetti (if you have let over spaghetti from the craft, eat that.)

Tortilla

Book

Cooking: Make tortillas. (Corn Tortillas)


Fruit Theme

Vegetable Theme

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