🎓 Skills Your Child Will Develop

• 🥦 Healthy Food Knowledge — Learning about different foods, food groups, and what nutrients do in the body builds the food literacy that supports a lifetime of informed, health-conscious eating choices.
• 😊 Positive Relationship with Food — Joyful, pressure-free food experiences build the positive relationship with eating that underlies lifelong nutritional health — and is far more protective against disordered eating than any restriction-based approach.
• 📏 Early Math Skills — Measuring ingredients, counting servings, comparing quantities, and dividing portions makes cooking and eating some of the most authentic early math experiences available to preschoolers.
• 🍽️ Independence & Life Skills — Learning to serve themselves, pour a drink, or prepare a simple snack builds practical independence and the self-care capability that kindergarteners need to manage their own nutrition during the school day.

It's almost impossible not to involve your preschooler in daily food activities. It's natural for preschoolers to help prepare food in the kitchen, choose groceries, pick vegetables from your garden, and plan meals. Embrace your preschooler's interest in the important activity of feeding the family. You will be rewarded with a preschooler who learns about the food cycle, spends quality time preparing food, and grows up with a healthy attitude toward food.

Featured Food and Nutrition Activities

Fresh Fruit Flag
Your preschooler can help transform summer fruit into the American Flag. It's a healthy snack that's simple to make - all you need are some skewers, blueberries, strawberries, and bananas. Add this to your list of ways to make eating fruit fun!

Celebrate Strawberries - Preschooler Strawberry Activities
Does you preschooler love strawberries? It's the peak of strawberry season so stock up on fresh strawberries while they last. Strawberries are packed with nutrients and fiber for your preschooler. So enjoy sweet strawberries while you help your preschooler learn about strawberries with activities and easy recipes.

Preschool Food Activity - Flavor Your Own Yogurt
Have fun in the kitchen with your preschooler making your own flavored yogurt. Start with plain, low-fat yogurt and add basic ingredients to make an all-natural, lower-sugar version of this favorite snack.

What's In Season Calendar for Preschoolers
Showcase fruits and vegetables in season with this What's In Season Calendar. Your preschooler will learn about where food comes from and you'll be reminded to enjoy fresh produce at the peak of flavor. Include in-season produce in meals and snacks and plan related activities, such as picking in season fruit.

More Food And Nutrition Activities

How Preschoolers Can Help in the Kitchen

Earth Day Preschooler Activity - Food and the Earth

Preschooler Food Game - How Does it Grow? 

Featured Preschool Product

Alex My First Stove
My First Stove, by Alex is a colorful, wooden stove top that folds for easier storage. Your preschooler can use the stove top on the kitchen counter for great pretend play and cooking fun. Gather some pots and pans, spoons, measuring cups, and play ingredients and watch your preschooler become a little chef, helping you prepare meals. This is a great stand-in for the real stove - providing hands-on and safe fun. Recommended for children 3 years and older. Also try Alex My First Sink.

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Flower Pounding Nature Preschool Craft
Instead of buying ready made decorative pillows for your preschoolers room, try this preschool nature craft and make some of your own! Flower pounding on fabric creates a subtle tie dye effect that can be color coordinated for any room décor depending on the flowers you use.

Kool-Aid™ Painting Preschool Craft
Usually, you try to avoid Kool-Aid™ stains on your preschoolers clothes. Why not have a little fun and let your preschooler paint with the Kool-Aid™ instead of drink it! The resulting tie-dye effect looks great and the paint is non-toxic so there is no need to worry about exposing your preschooler to harsh dyes.

Cookie Cutter Food Activity - Watermelon Frozen Fruit Pops
Cool off this summer with a tasty treat that's not only fun to make, but nutritious too! You and your preschoooler can create unique fruit pops with this cookie cutter food activity. Frozen fruit watermelon pops are sure to delight your preschooler in more ways than one!