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Art and Craft Ideas

  • 15-02-2011 7:39pm
    #1
    ayumi
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    I dont know if this is the right place to ask this.
    Im studying childcare and doing a project on healthy eating with 3-5,preschoolers.I need to do 5 art activites with them that is assoisated with healthy eating.


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  • #2
    snickerpuss
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    Hi, I'm not sure whether to move this to Arts and Crafts or to Teaching and Lecturing.
    I'll throw it in the latter for the moment?

    Mods: Feel free to throw back if not the right place.


  • #3
    byhookorbycrook
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 12,514 Mod ✭✭✭✭byhookorbycrook


    might get a better response on educationposts.ie

    What about using the story "The very Hungry Caterpillar" as a starting poin?t


  • #4
    looksee
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    I don't usually allow food related projects on childcare art and crafts as too many people use chips and pizza as their staple foods. Also to make any sense you need a reasonable knowledge of nutrition. You also need to be aware that while you are talking enthusiastically about how good milk is for you, you might have children with milk allergy in the group.

    As you are doing this as a project though I will make a couple of suggestions that come to me.

    Have pictures of food staples that the children can colour or paint and cut out, then assemble into a big picture of the food pyramid. Explain what the food pyramid is as you are assembling it.

    Make fruit prints using cut out sponge shapes, talk about the different types of fruit.

    Give them a cut out shape of a slice of bread, and some coloured copier paper with tomato slices/meat/cheese slices printed on. Let them cut out the food shapes and add some crepe paper lettuce to make an open sandwich.

    Give them air-dry clay or salt dough and let them make fruit and vegetable shapes. Take in some actual vegetables to show them as many of them may think that peas grow in bags in the freezer!

    There is also of course painted pasta shape bracelets and potato prints, but that is more playing with food than healthy eating!

    Edit to add: If you have chosen healthy eating as your theme, rather than being given a theme, you should realise that it would make a good deal more sense to choose a theme with a wider range of possible activities!


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