Preschool Nutrition Activities that Significantly Increase Fruit and Vegetable consumption in Young Children
LANA curriculum, story books, recipe books, handouts, stickers and plush toys…
Preschool nutrition activities, when integrated into classroom discussions, naturally bring into play other learning modalities and strengthen the learning experience.
While every teacher knows the importance of teaching nutrition, it’s not always easy to find nutrition activities that smoothly integrate into your current curriculum. Using nutrition education and healthy activities, the LANA program gives teachers the tools they need to engage and encourage children to taste, eat and enjoy more fruits and vegetables.
Nutrition activity materials overview
Let’s take a look at some of the materials developed by the Minnesota Department of Health through a grant from the National Cancer Institute…
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This 24 week program easily integrates into your current curriculum
through 20 minute daily sessions. The kit includes curriculum, training
CD, storybooks, recipe books, handouts, a plush iguana puppet, 8 LANA
Fruit and Vegetable plush characters and stickers. This kit offers a
variety of integrated cross-curricular nutrition activities.
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This kit is designed to enhance the learning experience by providing
additional nutrition activities and related materials including posters,
color cards, activity books, handouts, stickers and more plush fruit
and vegetable characters.
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Join Lana the Iguana for quick and easy-to-prepare snack recipes that
are fun for children to make and even more fun to eat. Lana’s Fruit
& Vegetable Snack Recipes features 16 step-by-step recipes that make
fruits and vegetables familiar and fun
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These lovable characters can be integrated into many creative
nutrition activities. The 8 fruit and vegetable toys are machine
washable and 3” - 6” high.
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Reading stories are fun and engaging nutrition activities that can be
enjoyed at school or home. LANA and Willie Eat Lunch teaches children
that iguanas are vegetarians that only eat fruits, vegetables and
plants. This colorful book is 5-1/2” x 8-1/2” and 8 pages long. Three
additional storybooks are available.
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This brochure discusses the difficulty of introducing fruits and
vegetables to preschool children. It was written for parents who are
struggling with picky eating. One order includes 5 copies of this 5-1/2”
x 8-1/2” handout. Four more issues are available.
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