Ages 4+ · Life Skills · A healthy body
Foods that help me grow
🍏apple🥕carrot🍌banana🫐berries
Colorful foods help us grow.The big ideaColourful foods help us grow. Sweet treats are for sometimes.
How it works
Our bodies grow every day, like a seed grows into a flower.
Food is fuel. Colorful every day foods give our bodies what they need to grow strong.
A treat like a cupcake is a sometimes food. Water is for drinking.
Example 1: A plate of colors
- Make a plate with bright colors.
- A green apple, an orange carrot, a yellow banana, green peas and blue berries.
- Each color helps our bodies in its own way.
Example 2: Every day or sometimes?
- Kit sees a cupcake with pink icing.
- A cupcake is a sometimes food, a treat now and then.
- Treats are fine, but not all the time.
🧁cupcake😋yummy📅now and then
A sometimes treat.Example 3: Growing taller
- Kit stands by the height chart.
- His grown-up marks a new line, and he is taller!
- Colorful foods help us grow, every single day.
Words to know
- every day food
- A colorful food we can eat all the time.
- sometimes food
- A treat, now and then.
- grow
- To get bigger and stronger.
- energy
- The go that helps us run and play.
Watch out
- Treats are fine now and then. They are for sometimes, not for every day.
- Water is for drinking, and it helps too.
- A cupcake is yummy. A sometimes food is still a nice food.
Try it
- Which helps us grow every day, a carrot or a cupcake?
- Is a cookie an every day food?
- Name a colorful every day food.
- What is for drinking?
Answers: 1. a carrot · 2. no · 3. an apple, a carrot, a banana, peas or berries · 4. water
Try at homeWith a grown-up, pick a colourful food to eat today. Can you find red, orange, green and yellow ones?
For grown-upsLet your child pick one colorful food from the shop or the fridge today, and try to find red, orange, green and yellow ones together.