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Health and Nutrition Craft and My Body Preschool and Kindergarten Activities and Lessons. Children will have fun learning how to stay healthy from head to toe with the Twiggles, Lily and EarTwiggle. Young children are very curious and love to learn about their body and the foods they eat. Our health and nutrition resources offer age-appropriate lesson ideas, book suggestions, movement activities, healthy recipes, crafts, and songs to reinforce the health and nutrition lessons being taught. Our lessons are designed to be integrated throughout the school year.

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Look at me now!

Display a picture of a baby. Explain to children that all of us were once babies. Ask children who has a baby brother or sister. Discuss how we have changed since we were babies and what we needed to grow (food, water, sleep, love). Display baby-to-adult sequencing pictures and talk about them.

Twiggi Puppet: Introduce Twiggi and sing and move to the Healthy Twiggles song. Use the EarTwiggle puppet to stress the point that we need healthy foods, water, sleep, and exercise to grow up healthy and strong.

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Movement:  Have children stretch and make themselves tall and then small like a baby; walk around in grown-up steps and then in baby steps; crawl like a baby, make small toddler jumps, and finally jump like big kids.

Show a picture of a baby's and an adult's handprint. Have children compare them to their own hands. Use words like: "My hand is larger than the baby's hand. My hand is smaller than the adult's hand."

Where Is Thumbkin? (Start with hands behind back.)

Where is thumbkin? Where is thumbkin? Here I am (Bring right hand to front, with thumb up.) Here I am. (Bring left hand to front, with thumb up.) How are you today sir? Very well, I thank you. (Wiggle thumbs as if they're "talking" to each other.) Run away (Hide right hand behind back.) Run away. (Hide left hand behind back.)

Extension: Craft: Make a growing chart for each child. Place one leaf at birth height and a flower at child's current height. Tape a picture of the child inside the flower.

EarTwiggle Puppet Craft

Print EarTwiggle and Lily patterns and cut out. Use spray glue to attach to cardboard and cut out. To make the handle, cut a six and one-half inch by three fourths-inch long strip out of cardboard and attach to the back of puppet. 

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Here Are My Fingers

Here are my fingers and here is my nose. Here are my ears and here are my toes. Here are my eyes that open wide. Here is my mouth with my white teeth inside. Here is my pink tongue that helps me speak. Here are my shoulders and here is my cheek. Here are my hands that help me play. Here are my feet that go walking each day. (Author Unknown)

Moveable Me (Tune: B-I-N-G-O)

My arms have parts that bend and move Every time I use them. Shoulder, elbow, wrist, and hand Shoulder, elbow, wrist, and hand Shoulder, elbow, wrist, and hand And this is how I move them.

My legs have parts that bend and move Every time I use them. Knee, ankle, heel, and foot Knee, ankle, heel, and foot Knee, ankle, heel, and foot And this is how I move them!

My body has parts that bend and move Every time I use them. Neck, back, waist, and hips Neck, back, waist, and hips Neck, back, waist, and hips And this is how I move them!

I'm made of parts that bend and move Every time I use them. Shoulder, elbow, wrist, and hand Knee, ankle, heel, and foot Neck, back, waist, and hips And this is how I move them! Author Unknown

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Health and Hygiene Activities & Fun Ideas for Kids

You have come to the right place if you are looking for fun, engaging and exciting Health and Hygiene themed activities to do with toddlers, preschoolers and kindergartners. Our activities are widely used by teachers, moms, dads, child care providers and more!

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Health and Hygiene Arts and Crafts

Art II Group collage: magazine pictures of smiles. (Not whole faces, just mouths – any kind – human or animal!)

Sensory Cut the bottoms off of large plastic soda bottles and turn them upside down – they look like teeth! Spray them with shaving creme and give the kids toothbrushes to brush the teeth clean.

Science Scrounge some small white ceramic tiles (from construction sites, tile stores, parents who are remodeling etc). Provide children with a variety of food products to smear on the tiles such as: jelly, ketchup, syrup,peanut butter etc, have children brush the teeth with toothbrushes and real toothpaste. Which tiles are stained?

Pizza Collage Materials Needed: Round piece of tagboard Glue Red tempera paint, Yellow & white Easter grass or yarn scraps green, red, and black felt brown scraps of paper

Procedure: 1. Mix red tempera with glue. Let children paint tagboard with red glue. 2. Tear brown scraps of paper and crumple them. Stick them to tagboard (sausage). Use green felt (peppers); red felt (tomatoes); black felt (olives); Easter grass or yarn (cheese).

Health and Hygiene Games and Activities

Dramatic Play Dentist office (call your dentist for donations!)

Dental Health One thing you can do when doing dental health is to hard boil an egg ahead of time. Then bring in some dark soda. Place the egg in the soda for a day. Then the next day talk about why we should keep our teeth clean and how we can keep them clean. Then take the egg out. It is discolored, yellow, looks like plaque. Take a tooth brush with a little tooth paste, that’s how you can fit in how much they should be using, and brush it off. It REALLY comes off. They love it. They each get a turn.

Playing Doctor Let the children dress up in white shirts or smocks and take turns playing doctor/patient. You could bring out a shoe box filled with different supplies, bandages, popsicle sticks for tongue depressors, empty ball point pen for pretend needles, etc)

Visiting the Doctor You could discuss why it is important to see the doctor regularly. Ask if anyone knows how to use a stethoscope and ask if they know what a heartbeat is. If they put their hands over their heart they might be able to feel it beating. You could show them how to take a pulse on their wrists and on their neck.

Fishing for Good Foods Children can cut pictures from magazines (or for the little ones have them already cut) from the five basic food groups. Have the children glue these pictures onto a fish shape cut from construction paper. Slip a paper clip onto the front of each fish.

Make a fishing pole from a dowel and tie a magnet onto the end of the string. Label five small buckets with the name/picture of each food group. Have the children try to catch a fish and encourage them to decide which group the food belongs to and then put the fish in the correct bucket.

Separating Solids Mix one cup of beans, one cup of salt and one cup of rice together in a bowl. Provide the children with a strainer and a colander and tell them to separate the items in the bowl into three separate bowls–one with beans, one with salt and one with rice. After the children are successful. ask them if they can think of another way to accomplish the task.

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Taste Testing Various food items Blindfold Cut up and clean various food items. Blindfold your child and have him/her taste and smell different foods. Have him/her describe the various tastes, smells and textures before they guess what it is.

Happy Face Sandwiches Bread Peanut butter Raisins Alfalfa or bean sprouts Squeezable cheese Other small food items Spread peanut butter on one side of bread – open faced. Have child make eyes, nose, mouth and hair from other items provided. Encourage kids to be creative and eat what they create.

Health and Hygiene Songs, Poems and Finger Plays

Meet the Veggies Tomato: I’m round and red And juicy too. Chop me for a salad, Or dump me in your stew!

Lettuce: Hey, wait a minute! If a salad you’re fixin’ I can stand alone. No need for the mixin’!

Onion: Chop me and slice me But keep water near. I sometimes get juicy And can bring on a tear!

Carrot: Orange is my color; I stand long and lean. In the garden ?you’ll see Just my bright leaves of green.

Pea: I live in a pod With so many others. I think I was born With one hundred brothers!

Green Bean: Look in the garden; You’ll see my sign. Then bring out your basket When it’s pickin’ time!

Potato: I’ve an eye for perfection To give you the ?best. Baked, mashed or fried– I’ll pass the test!

Cabbage: My head is quite thick So people tell me. I guess that’s the reason Grocery stores sell me!

Celery: Cut and rinse my stalks, Then spread on cream cheese. A refreshing hors d’oeuvre To make parties a breeze!

Squash: Some call me a game, A game of good sport, but I’m really to eat As a side dish of sorts!

Brussel Sprout: I’m kinda cute When I’m served on a plate I’m just a little mouthful. You can eat six or eight!

Cauliflower: I carry white flowers To break off and eat. I’m sometimes served raw, A nutritious snack treat!

Broccoli: My friends call me trees: Now that’s a funny name. Though I am a dark green With stalks just the same.

We’re the veggies You should eat every day! Now don’t make a face. We’re as good as we say!

Cheese Please (tune: 3 blind mice)

Cheese, cheese, cheese we love cheese Please, please please give us cheese We like white cheese oh yes we do Orange cheese taste wonderful to Yellow cheese is for me and you Oh, give us cheese

Sneezing Song I think –I am going to sneeze ..(ha chew!) I think –I am going to sneeze ..(ha chew) If you sneeze, pass the tissue please…. Ha Chew, Ha Chew, Ha Chew

Pass around a box of tissue at the very beginning of school. Each child takes one, teach the song then sneeze and then we get up and throw the tissue away. The practice is a good practice to show them where the dirty tissues belong and that you don’t want to have to pick up someone else’s dirty tissue. Make a picture, but trace their hand and glue a tissue to it. Title it “I think I am going to sneeze!”

Here is a poem to use with your germ unit. When you cough or when you sneeze, will you think of others please. Use a tissue or your hand, so on friends your germs won’t land.

Title: The Shape-Up Song Sung to ‘Farmer in the Dell’ We’re jumping up and down We’re jumping up and down We’re getting lots of exercise We’re jumping up and down. We bend and touch our toes….. We kick our legs up high…… We jog around the room……. We wiggle our whole body…. We stretch up to the sky…….

Tooth brushing song Brush your teeth (chchchh, chchchchchhh)– those are brushing sounds When you wake up in the morning and its quarter to 2, everyone’s asleep and there’s nothing else to do…you brush you teeth (chchchh, chchchchchhh)

When you wake up in the morning it’s a quarter to one, and you want to have a little fun….you brush your teeth (chchchch, chchchchchch)

When you wake up in the morning it’s a quarter to two, and you’re lookin around for something to do….you brush your teeth (brushing sound)

When you wake up in the morning it’s a quarter to three, and your mind is humming twiddledeedee….you brush your teeth (brushing sound)

When you wake up in the morning it’s a quarter to four, and you think you hear a knock at your door….you brush your teeth (brushing sound)

When you wake up in the morning it’s a quarter to five, and you just can’t wait to come alive …..you brush your teeth (brushing sound)….you brush your teeth (brushing sound) ….your brush your teeth (getting progressively quieter, until brush your teeth comes out in a whisper)

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Subject: Health Education

Source: Georgia Public Broadcasting

Resource Type: Video: Animated Segment

In this animated video segment adapted from the Eagle Books series produced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Rain That Dances and his friends learn about snacks. Mr. Eagle and Miss Rabbit explain that healthy snacks should not contain a lot of sugar and that all snacks should be eaten in small amounts. They explore some snacks that could be eaten every day, such as apple slices, carrots, cherries, and water. Coyote tries to entice them with less healthy snacks, such as cookies, soda pop, and potato chips. These snacks are “sometimes” foods, meaning that they are okay only if eaten once in a while.

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Learn why nutrition and movement are important for maintaining a healthy body.

Skills: Students will comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance health.

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Animal Fitness

Subject: Physical Education

Source: PBS Learning Media

Resource Type: Lesson Plan

In this lesson using commonly known animals such as a fox, dog and an inchworm, students enjoy learning about the movements of various animals. The teacher demonstrates how to move and be like that animal using various exercises and students follow along. Students are able to showcase their psychomotor skills in this lesson.

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Skills: Demonstrates competency in motor skills and movement patterns needed to perform a variety of activities.

Demonstrates understanding of movement concepts, principles, strategies, and tactics as they apply to the learning and performance of physical activities.

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The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything

In this Kindergarten through 2nd grade video, students listen carefully as their teacher reads the story “The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything” by Linda Williams. Students listen for key verbs such as clomp and wiggle throughout the story and as they hear them, they will perform a specific physical movement such as stomping their feet or wiggling their fingers. This is great for focusing on psychomotor and cognitive skills