Let's have fun with healthy food. There are many delicious edible food crafts for kids, such as the Banana Dolphins with Grapes, pictured here. How about 6 variations on an old favorite, Ants on a Log? These 20 edible crafts include Animal Faces Toast, Mini Jell-O Aquariums, Caterpillar Fruit Kabobs and Grape Sculptures. There are more recipes for young children to participate in the preparation of treats like Alphabet Doughnuts and Carrot Crafts.
Non-edible Food Projects
For those who are interested in food-related art projects (not for eating), you can create Seed Mosaics or Potato Stamps or many other works of art.
Jokes
Why can't you tell an egg a joke? Because it will crack up.
What is the most favorite sandwich of a shark? Peanut butter and jellyfish.
When is the time when you stop at green and go at red? When you are eating a watermelon.
Songs and Fingerplay
(Tune: "On Top of Old Smokey")
Spaghetti, spaghetti, you're wonderful stuff
I love you spaghetti, I can't get enough
You're covered with sauce and you're sprinkled with cheese
Spaghetti, spaghetti, oh, give me some please.
Spaghetti, spaghetti, piled high in a mound
You wiggle, you wriggle, you squiggle around
There's slurpy spaghetti all over my plate
Spaghetti, spaghetti, I think you are great!
(Tune: "Twinkle, Twinkle")
Carrots, peas, and broccoli,
Vegetables are good for me.
For my snack and in my lunch,
Veggie sticks are great to munch.
Carrots, peas, and broccoli,
Vegetables are good for me.
Way up high, in the apple tree (raise hands over head)
Two red apples smiled at me (smile)
So I shook that tree as har-r-d as I could (pretend to shake tree)
Down came the apples, mmm, they were good! (rub tummy)
Books and Information
There are many picture books about food in the Library's collection. Young cooks will want to check the many cookbooks for kids. The Library's eSource, World Book for Kids, has information on foods and cooking.