Kids today need Healthy Foods and Snacks more than ever. Poor diet, junk foods, lack of physical and mental activity, cause lazy , over weight children with poor concentration/social skills as well as poor learning skills.
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Here are a Few Ideas for Your Kids:
HEALTHY SNACK IDEAS FOR KIDS:
Introducing healthy eating habits to your kids is very important. Especially these days where take-out and drive throughs are very popular. Eating healthy foods and snacks is a very important factor in all children's physical and mental development. Here are some ideas for fresh, tasty, healthy snacks in mid-afternoon and other times of the day.
Things you will need:
- knife
- napkins
- celery
- cream cheese or peanut butter (or both)
- crackers
- olive slices
- raisins
Have chopped celery sticks on the table. Ask the children if they would like their celery filled with either cream cheese or peanut butter. If they don't want any filling, don't force it. Ask if they would like to decorate their cream cheese with olive slices or peanut butter with raisins.
Do the same as above with crackers. Great choices for crackers are Ritz, Breton, and/or Graham Crackers. Makes a Great, Healthy and Fun Snack for kids.
Have fresh juice, milk or water available to drink.
Circle Idea For Kids Using Balloons:
This Circle Idea should be implemented with children at least 3 years of age and up. Any children who are still in the stage of exploring sensory oraly need to be supervised with great caution. Balloons are serious choking hazards so please use caution when implementing the activities mentioned in this Circle Idea. It is a good idea to go over the safety issues with children so they understand the risks as well.
Opening Song: (sung to - Farmer in the Dell)
Hello to everyone, ( wave to children)
and how are you today?
We come to our circle time,
to laugh and sing and play.
And when you're up you're up, (hold hands in the air)
and when your down your down, ( place hands on floor)
and when your only half way up, (hold hands about chest level)
your neither up nor down. (throw your hands up and down quickly with words)
So roll your hands so slowly, (make fists with hands and roll about chest level like - continued below ...
