Healthy Eating Preschool Theme
Healthy Eating for Early Years
What are your favourite food when you are little? Do you still like it now? Interestingly many of our food preferences as adults are linked to childhood. In this theme we think about how best to meet children's individual nutritional needs and how you might play in promoting healthy eating.
What is Healthy eating?
The term "healthy eating" is frequently used, so it is worth investigating what it actually means. Eating a variety of foods ensures that the child receives the nutrients he or she requires for normal growth, such as protein, carbohydrate, fat, vitamins, and minerals. A child will be well-nourished if he or she consumes a wide variety of basic foods on a regular basis. For more details what is healthy eating click the following link.
Strategies to encourage healthy eating
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To encourage healthy eating habits for children, it is important nutritious choices is appealing. Let us take a look at how we can encourage children under five to eat healthily eating
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This video will help you to understand the importance of healthy eating and how to encourage children to eat healthy food.
Activites to support healthy eating
There are many activities that we can use with children to help them become interested in healthy eating. Following some activities that are commonly used to help children become interested in healthy eating.
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Sometimes it can be difficult to explain to children what foods are healthy or harmful, or why eating chocolate all day could be bad for our teeth and our overall health. If you're having trouble getting your children to understand the need of eating nutritious foods and limiting their consumption of sugary treats and other harmful foods, try this strategy. You can encourage children to try new food using a variety of techniques. A great method to introduce and explore new meals with children in a fun way is to sort healthy and harmful foods through play. This Healthy and Unhealthy Sorting Activity Pack is one of them.
Hey! I am Shamima Fowzee, an early childhood educator, trainer, and consultant. I share ideas, inspiration, & resources for play-based, inquiry-led learning. Find out more about me here.
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