I really need easy low sugar food experiances for preschoolers?

Question

I really need easy low sugar food experiances for preschoolers?

Answer 1

Fruit kabobs and yogurt dip

Making faces with fruit

Ants on a log (cream cheese or PB, spread on celery topped with raisins)

Cheese and crackers

Veggies and dip

Wrap sandwiches (tortilla, cream cheese, and sandwich meat rolled up and cut into slices)

Sandwiches cut into shapes w/cookie cutter

Chex mix

Pretzels

Answer 2

saltenes

ritz crackers w/ peanut butter

triscuits

Answer 3

If by food experiences you mean snacks they can make as a group, there are tons.

Peanut Butter on Crackers

-Let each child spread PB on crackers with the back of a plastic spoon.

-If desired, place a banana slice or make a raisin smiley face on each cracker

Peanut Butter/Cream Cheese Celery

-Again, have students help put either PB or Cream Cheese inside a celery stick. You could do this for them if you want to avoid a mess.

-Let each child place raisins or dried cranberries on the filled sticks.

Fruit Pizza

-Give each child a mini pizza dough

-Either do this before hand or have each child spread cream cheese on the dough like pizza sauce.

-Next add strawberry slices, banana slices, raisins, dried cranberries, bits of granola or shreaded coconut, etc like pizza toppings. Kids can be creative with this making faces or designs or just putting things on any old way.

-Either eat nor or refridgerate and eat later at snack time.

Ice Pops

-On a hot day, have each child take a toothpick or small pop stick and stick a piece of tape with their name on it.

-Next, let kids choose a juice they like (have 2 or 3 sugar free juice flavors on hand) and watch you fill a hole in an ice cube tray with it.

-Once every child has written their name and picked a juice, put tin foil over the ice cube tray and stick their pop stick through the foil in the appropriate spot. The tinfoil holds the sticks upright.

-Let these freeze. Best to do it in the beginning of the day and let the kids enjoy them later at snack time or at the end of the day as they wait for moms and dads to come. Great for a hot day, and you can talk to children about how liquids freeze into ice, about hot weather and why we want cold things when it's hot, or about things people do in the summer time.

These are a bit more suggary, but you can learn about following a recipe and make rice crispy treats at the end of the day. Google it and you should get the recipe.

Trail Mix

-Set out bowls of nuts, raisins, cereal, dried fruit, and maybe mini marshmallows or M&M's.

-Give each child a small container or baggy and make it into a counting game where as they go through to each ingredient they need to count out how many scoops they put in their bag. Maybe place a number over each bowl of ingredients that tells how many scoops to take. Kids can munch on their trail mix over snack time or while listening to a story about camping or hiking.

Mini Lunch Wraps

-Give each child a small tortilla

-Let each child choose a lunc meat (maybe Ham, Turkey, or Bologna) and put one or two slices on the tortilla.

-Next let each child sprinkle a little shreaded cheese, or place a slice of cheese (depending on what works best for your class) on top of the meat.

-Next let each child place a leaf of lettuce on top of the cheese.

-Help children roll up their tortilla and enjoy

Good activity for working with concepts like over, under, inside of, in between, etc.

If you're up for a mess, kids can use reduced sugar vanilla pudding and food coloring to make edible paints to use on grahm crackers.

Give each child apple and orange slices, and together talk about how apples and oranges are the same and different. Explore all five sences.

Make Bunny Faces for Easter

-Give each child a round paper plate, or a place mat with a blank bunny head printed on it.

-Let them use various foods to arrange a face on their bunny. Rainsins for eyes, a cherry tomato, a cherry, or a greap for the nose, some shreads of carrot or string cheese for whiskers, more raisins for a smile and maybe marshmallows or almond slivers for two little teeth.

Answer 4

Both answers have some wonderful ideas, but since they both included peanuts, peanut butter, and other types of nuts in their answers, I would just say to please not include nuts of any kind, especially peanuts or peanut butter, in any type of food activities that you do with your students. I don't mean to be preachy, however, I had a student that died from a peanut allergy. I would just hate for that to happen to anyone else.

Peanut allergies are becoming more and more common over the years. A child who has a severe peanut allergy can have a reaction even if he/she doesn't ingest any peanuts. Peanut allergies can be fatal very quickly too. This is why peanut butter is being banned by more and more school districts as an option for school lunches.



While other foods can cause allergies too, it is the nut allergies (and shellfish allergies, though I doubt if you'll be having a lobster tasting in your classroom!) that have the most adverse reactions, so please avoid using them in your classroom.

In addition, be sure to have your students' parents fill out a form listing all food allergies for their children before you begin any food related activities, so that you know what other foods to keep out of your lessons for that year.

If you are looking for lessons, and not just snack ideas, try these:

1. Counting seeds- buy various different, obviously seeded fruits like apples, oranges, etc. have children predict which fruit will have the most seeds/ least amount of seeds in them. Cut up each fruit to find out the answer, and graph the result using a bar graph. Use the fruit you cut up to make fruit salad. (You can also use the seeds in a science activity to see which ones grow into a new plant.)

2. Read the book "Stone Soup" to your children, then make "Stone Soup" with them. Have every child bring in, or you provide, different vegetables to put into the soup, and also include one very clean, very well washed and scrubbed "stone" that you have brought in. Even children who claim to hate veggies will eat up this magical soup. (Just remember to get the rock out of the pot before serving!)

3. Read a book about dinosaurs to the children. Discuss how some dinosaurs eat meat, and are called carnivores, and some are called herbivores, and eat only plants. Then have "Dinosaur Snack Time" over the span of two days. One day, have an herbivore party, and serve only leafy greens like different types of lettuces, spinach, fruits, berries, and veggies. Then next day, have a carnivore party, serving cubes of chicken and steak.

Answer 5

Yep I am sad to say due to extreme allergies especially to Peanuts many school have a no peanut policy. Other allergies to watch out for soy, nuts dairy. If there are no dairy allergies then fruit and vanilla yogurt are you best bet.