fun food games

Nutrition for the brain!

Let your kids sink their teeth into some real food for thought! Try some of of fun food games and activities to make eating a delicious learning experience.

• Cut sandwiches into fun shapes using cookie cutters. Use letter and number cookie cutters for an educational angle.
• Use licorice as a rope for a necklace and string it with looped cereal.
• Grab your best friend, sister, or brother and build a lemonade stand! Ask for an adults help to make homemade lemonade.
• Make wooden skewers of alternating marshmallows and fruit. Use food coloring as paint and cotton swabs as paintbrushes to decorate the marshmallows before eating.
• Build a house out of graham crackers, using frosting as glue. Decorate the house with windows, doors, and more using candies, colored frosting and cake decorations.
• Write your favorite recipe on a card. Decorate the card and give it as a gift to your teacher.
• Build a solar system out of fruits. Use a large fruit, like melon, for the Sun and fruit like grapes for smaller planets, such as Pluto.
• Write your favorite recipe on a card. Decorate the card and give it as a gift to your teacher.
• Grow an avocado in a cup. Take toothpicks and stick into an avocado pit. Prop pit into a plastic cup. Add water into cup until it barely touches the pit below. Watch it grow!