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• Crunchin' Crackers Tic-Tac-Toe
• Elmo Maze Game
• Healthy Habits Matching Game
• Draw Yourself Maze
• Create a Card For Someone Special
• Mommy & Me Games
• Healthy Snacks Dot-to-Dot
• Alphabet Matching Game  NEW!
• Find the Fruit  NEW!
• Birthday Activity  NEW!
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Mommy & Me Games

Since children learn and develop healthy habits from doing, we should encourage active, hands-on experiences with various foods and meal-time.

• Do a taste test or a crunch test. Dip carrots into three different flavors of low-fat dressing or try a crunch test with three different kinds of vegetables to see which vegetable crunches the loudest.

• Play "What can we make with this?" Ask children what they know about a certain food, such as flour and then talk about the various foods they could make with flour.
• Bake carrot muffins together. Discuss how carrots have special vitamins that help your eyes see better.
• Visit a farm or supermarket. Encourage the child to pick one food (such as strawberries) and discuss how it is packaged and the different ways the food could be prepared (eaten fresh and whole, cut, cooked) and served (as jam, as a dessert, on cereal).

• Link specific foods with family, tradition and culture. While cooking or eating the food, tell stories about how grandma or uncle used to make that food for special days.
• Make up a song about a healthy food such as milk, where milk comes from, which foods have milk in them and how milk is good for your body.
• Make a smoothie. Allow children to help prepare the ingredients.
• Sort various foods by different categories - color, texture, favorite, food group (Does ice cream have milk in it? Do peas?).