Valentines

Take-A-Taste Activities

A Cheesy Tale
Grade Level: Pre-k / K
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Description: Students use their five senses to compare orange and yellow cheese after listening to a tale about two mice cousins with different taste preferences.

• Listen to the story, "A Cheesy Tale," and answer questions about it.
• Use senses to describe the taste, smell and color of white and yellow cheese.

Farm

Take-A-Taste Activities

A Dairy Treat Day
Grade Level: Pre-k / K
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Description: Students taste several dairy foods for a fun, "dairy-treat" day.
Objectives:

• Discuss the taste, texture, smell, and color of five dairy foods.
• Taste the dairy foods and participate in a tasting survey.

Senses

Take-A-Taste Activities

Apple Fun-Do
Grade Level: Pre-k / K
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Description: Students examine several types of apples and taste them with a cheese fondue.
Objectives:

• Describe the taste, smell, size and shape of several apples.
• State that there are different types of apples.
• Taste a new food - apple slices with cheese fondue.

Seasons

Make-It-Myself Recipes

Caterpillars
Grade Level: Pre-k / K
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Description: Students discuss caterpillars and make a "caterpillar" snack.
Objectives:

• Use right-to-left sequencing to assemble a Caterpillar snack.
• Taste a Caterpillar snack.
• State that a caterpillar turns into a butterfly.

Farm

Nutrition Activities

Five Dairy Cows
Grade Level: Pre-k / K
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Description: Students make finger puppets and participate in a finger play.
Objectives:

• Color, cut and assemble one "dairy cow" and "dairy product" finger puppet.
• Listen and observe the teacher do a "Five Dairy Cows Finger Play," then participate, using finger puppets they made.

Magic Carpet

Make-It-Myself Recipes

Making a Stick Puppet
Grade Level: Pre-k / K
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Description: Make a Chef Combo puppet to incorporate the Chef in the lessons by having him introduce activities, give directions, conduct tasting surveys or emphasize other major points in the lessons.

Dinosaur

Take-A-Taste Activities

Making Dinosaur Bones
Grade Level: Pre-k / K
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Description: Students shape a "dinosaur bone" then take a taste.
Objectives:

• Wash hands, shape and taste a dinosaur "bone."
• Help count and record the results for a tasting survey
• Describe the taste, smell, texture and appearance of their dinosaur bones.

Magic Carpet

Nutrition Activities

Make Tasting Passports
Grade Level: Pre-k / K
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Description: Students make passports that are stamped each time they taste a new food.
Objectives:

• Learn that we use a passport when we travel to other countries.
• Decorate a passport to use with Chef Combo's® tasting activities.

Dinosaur

Nutrition Activities

Measuring Dinosaurs
Grade Level: Pre-k / K
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Description: Measure dinosaurs and talk about how food affects growth.
Objectives:

• Identify and compare the length of four dinosaurs.
• Learn that dinosaurs needed food to grow and that food helps us to grow too.

Transportation

I-Can-Help Recipes

Milk Blender Special
Grade Level: Pre-k / K
Rating: Not Yet Rated
Description: Students make a Milk Blender Special from strawberries, bananas and milk.
Objectives:

• Observe the color, shape and texture of strawberries and bananas before and after they are blended with milk.
• Use right-to-left sequencing to assemble a My Favorite Bug snack.
• Read a rebus recipe for making a milk blender drink.

Dinosaur

I-Can-Help Recipes

Munchies with Dinosaur Dip
Grade Level: Pre-k / K
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Description: Students help prepare a dip and taste it with several vegetables.
Objectives:

• Identify vegetables and describe their color, smell and feel.
• State that vegetables help us see in the dark.

Seasons

Take-A-Taste Activities

My Favorite Bug
Grade Level: Pre-k / K
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Description: After students look for insects and bugs on a short nature walk outdoors, they assemble a My Favorite Bug snack.
Objectives:

• Talk about bugs and insects they saw on their nature walk
• Use right-to-left sequencing to assemble a My Favorite Bug snack
• Taste their My Favorite Bug snack

Senses

Make-It-Myself Recipes

Noisy Sheep - Quiet Sheep
Grade Level: Pre-k / K
Rating: Not Yet Rated
Description: Children make a food sheep snack and then listen carefully when eating it to decide whether the ingredients are noisy or quiet.
Objectives:

• Use their senses to describe a head of cauliflower.
• Use right-to-left sequencing and follow a rebus recipe to assemble a Food Sheep.
• Taste a Food Sheep snack and decide whether each ingredient is a quiet or a noisy food.

Rainbow/Colors

I-Can-Help Recipes

Ring Around the Rainbow Parfait
Grade Level: Pre-k / K
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Description: Students assemble their own parfait of fruit, yogurt and cereal.
Objectives:

• Use left-to-right sequencing to assemble a Ring Around the Rainbow Parfait snack using rebus recipe instructions
• Taste a Ring Around the Rainbow Parfait snack
• State the colors in the rainbow

Valentines

Take-A-Taste Activities

Red and Pink
Grade Level: Pre-k / K
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Description: This activity is perfect for Valentine's Day! Students brainstorm the names of red and pink foods (or identify pictures of red and pink foods) and then take a taste of one or more nutritious red or pink foods.
Objectives:

• Identify and taste one or more nutritious red or pink foods
• State how the foods keep their bodies healthy
• Complete a "Heart Chart" by placing heart cut outs next to "Like It," "Don't Like It," or "Didn't Taste," and discuss the results.

Valentines

Make-It-Myself Recipes

Sweetheart Pudding
Grade Level: Pre-k / K
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Description: Students discuss the foods used to celebrate different holidays. Then they each make Sweetheart Pudding to celebrate Valentine's Day.
Objectives:

• Identify foods typically eaten at Thanksgiving and Valentine's Day
• Use the right-to-left sequencing of rebus recipe card instructions to prepare a Sweetheart Pudding snack
• Taste the Sweetheart Pudding snack and participate in a tasting survey

Seasons

Take-A-Taste Activities

Taste of Winter (Winter)
Grade Level: Pre-k / K
Rating: Not Yet Rated
Description: Compare the taste of chocolate milk when it is hot and when it is cold.
Objectives:

• Taste the same food, chocolate milk, when it is hot and when it is cold.
• Describe the color, smell, temperature and taste of hot and cold chocolate milk. Identify ways the two drinks are similar and different.

Magic Carpet

Take-A-Taste Activities

Tasting Survey
Grade Level: Pre-k / K
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Description: This ongoing Tasting Chart is used in all the activities in which children try a new food. So keep it handy!

Transportation

Nutrition Activities

Mary Margaret and Her Milk Blender Special
Grade Level: Pre-k / K
Rating: Not Yet Rated
Description: Students participate in a flannel board-type activity as they listen to a story about a truck driver, Mary Margaret.
Objectives:

• Use story clues to describe how milk gets from the dairy to the grocery store
• Role-play story events during a second reading of the story

Growth

Nutrition Activities

Milk Grows Bones and Teeth
Grade Level: Pre-k / K
Rating: Not Yet Rated
Description: Students learn the names of five Milk Group foods and vote for their favorite.
Objectives:

• State that milk comes from a cow
• State that foods made from milk help their bones and teeth grow
• Vote for their favorite food from milk