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Find out about any food allergies and dietary restrictions. When this project is done with children ages 3 and younger, ask children to tear food pictures from recycled magazines. Four-year-olds may be able to draw a bit more realistically and use scissor
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Build children's understanding about food sources with hands-on experiences. Tour farms. Grow edible plants such as lettuce. Read about gardens and farming. Search the Internet. Talk with gardeners. Tour food-processing plants.
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Prepare a variety of healthy foods. Find out what happens before food reaches the store (how bees make honey, how wheat is ground into flour).
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Think of several yummy, healthy foods. With want plants are they made? What animals?
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With Crayola® Washable Markers, draw pictures of servings of your favorite foods on white paper.
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Cut out the food pictures with Crayola® Scissors if you are 4 or older. An adult cuts if you are younger, or you may tear pictures from magazines. Glue the foods to a paper plate with Crayola® School Glue. Next to each food, write whether it is a plant,
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Write recipes for your foods on index cards. Share recipes with friends.
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