FOOD and HEALTHY EATING Theme Activities

Try to choose at least one activity a day

• Visit PURPLE MASH for 2Do’s based on food and healthy eating

• Find out about the different food groups and how to eat a balanced diet

• Design a healthy eating poster

• Plan a healthy eating menu

• Write a shopping list of foods you need before visiting the supermarket

• Try out some simple recipes or help cook the family meal

• Keep a food diary for a week, recording what you eat for breakfast, lunch, tea, supper and snacks.  Are you eating a healthy balanced diet?  How can you make it healthier?

• Find out about which country's different fruits grow in and record your findings in some way. You can download this fruit word mat from Twinkl to help you identify the fruits: https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/t-l-084-fruit-word-mat

• Design and make your own smoothie. You could download this activity sheet from Twinkl to record your recipe: https://www.twinkl.co.uk/resource/t-t-2547917-ks1-design-a-smoothie-activity-sheet

• Find out about Fairtrade foods

• Create some potato print art work

• Do a Mystery Taste Challenge – Put on a blindfold and ask someone to pass you some different foods to taste. Can you guess what they are?

• Experiment with oil, water and food colouring CLICK HERE for link

• Carry out an Invisible Ink Experiment - Write a secret message using food! (see video below)

• Investigate solids, liquids and gases and observe changing states using water and other foods (melt chocolate and butter in a recipe,  freeze juice to make homemade ice lollies etc.)

• Observe a bean growing (see picture below).  Measure your bean. Make a bean diary (draw a picture and write a caption each week to record how it changes).

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• Take ten food items and put them in alphabetical order

• Create a supermarket role-play area.  You could use real packets and tins of food.  Write price tags for each item and practise your money Maths skills to ‘sell’ your items to your family!

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• Visit TWINKL for lots of printables based on food and healthy eating

• Make your own butter!  (scroll down for instructions)

How to Make Your Own Butter

You will need:

A jam jar with a tight seal

A tub of double cream (must be room temperature)

• Pour the cream into the jar, leaving at least a third empty. 
• Shake the jar until the fat completely solidifies and separates from the milk.  This should take about 6 minutes shaking once a second.  You could pass the jar around to different people so you don’t hurt your arms!

• Drain the milk from the jar and spread your butter on some bread! Yum!