Teacher Resources
As part of the Head Start Nutrition component, classrooms will participate in planned food experiences on a regular basis to give children the opportunity to learn about different foods, food preparations, and healthy eating habits. Below is a list of approved food experiences that can be used in New Opportunities Head Start classrooms. Please remember, when facilitating any food experience in a Head Start classroom, to follow all proper handwashing and sanitizing procedures as dictated by state licensing regulations and Head Start Performance Standards before beginning any food experience that involves the use of food or food equipment.
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Food Experiences
- 100th Day of School Trail Mix
- American Flags
- Animal Cracker Sorting
- Apples & Seeds
- Apples & Seeds - Crockpot
- Apples - The Great Apple Experiment
- Avocado tasting
- Bagel Snowmen
- Banana Pops
- Berry tasting with book Jamberry
- Bitter, Sweet, Salty and Sour
- Breads Around the World
- Brussel Sprouts Build a Snowman
- Bunny Faces
- Butterfly Bites
- Carrots - Seeds
- Caterpillars
- Cauliflower Sheep
- Cheese Tasting
- Coconut Trees with Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Book
- Corn Muffins
- Cracker Shapes
- Curds and Whey
- Dino Chow
- Dr. Seuss - Cat in the Hat
- Dr. Seuss - Green Eggs
- Dr. Seuss - Pink Ink
- Egg Salad
- Eggs - Humpty Dumpty Deviled Eggs
- Eggs in a Nest
- Exploring Squash
- Exploring Squash recipe enhancement
- Fall Colors - Vegetable tasting
- Food from many Places
- Food from many Places enhancement
- Frozen Grapes
- Fruit and Yogurt Ice Cream Cone
- Fruit Bagels
- Fruit Cars
- Funny Toast
- Garden Party (Fruit & Veggie Tasting)
- Globes
- Greene Foods
- Grow Popcorn
- Happy Hibernating Hedgehog
- Hard Boiled Eggs
- Heart Healthy Foods
- Homemade Healthy Popsicles
- Honey tasting with apple dippers
- Kite attachment
- Kites
- Lemon and Lime Tasting
- Let's Go Fishing
- Making Butter
- Me Salad
- Mixing Yogurt - Creating Colors
- Old Mother Hubbard Whats in your cupboard
- Orange Foods
- Owl Snack
- Pepper Tasting
- Pineapple - Fresh vs Canned
- Pizza Pies
- Porridge
- Pumpkin Pie in a Bag
- Pumpkin Pie in a Bag Recipe
- Pumpkin Pudding
- Purple Foods
- Quilt Making with Cereal
- Rainbow Colors
- Red Foods
- Seeds We Can Eat
- Snap Peas
- Spring Sunshine Smoothie
- String Cheese Shapes
- Sunshine Fruit Dip
- Tomato Exploration
- Transportation - Sailboats
- Tuna Salad on Toast
- Turkeys - Apple Turkey
- Watermelon Sailboats
- Watermelon Tasting
- Yellow Foods
- Yogurt Parfait
- Zoo Food
Non-Food Experiences
- Chef Combo Catering
- Chef Combo - Helper Job
- Chef Combo - Learning My Heart Says Thanks Song
- Chef Combo - Manners
- Clean Food - Dirty Food
- Cleaning up Area after Eating
- Cook or Chef Job
- Favorite Food Book
- Food Alphabet
- Food Alphabet Cheat Sheet
- Food Collages
- Grocery Store in Dramatic Play
- Grow a Sweet Potato plant
- Handwashing
- Learning to Eat Family Style
- Learning Yes Please & No Thank You
- Manners at Mealtime
- My Picnic Blanket
- Open Milk Carton
- Passing Food
- Pouring Pasta - Learning to Pour
- Pumpkin Seeds
- Pumpkin Seeds Take Home Recipe
- Setting the Table
- Snack Song for Transition time
- Sorting Fruits and Vegetables
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar
- Transition activity for eating in lunchroom
- Using Tongs
- Vegetables
- We Eat Turkey
- What Happens to our Teeth
- What Happens to our Teeth Attachment
- Where do Foods Come From
