Toddler Time: I Can Eat Healthy Vegetables

Book: Growing Vegetable Soup By Lois Ehlert

Songs and Finger plays:

The Vegetable Song
Sung to: "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star"
Carrots, Peas, and Broccoli,
Vegetables are good for me.
For my snack and in my lunch,
Veggie sticks are great to munch.
Carrots, Peas, and Broccoli,
Vegetables are good for me.

The Good Food Song
Tune: "Old MacDonald Had A Farm"
Vegetables are good for me, EE I EE I O
And so I eat them happily, EE I EE I O
(Children take turns naming vegetables that they like)
With a carrot, carrot here, and a carrot, carrot there
Here a carrot, there a carrot
Everywhere a carrot, carrot.
Vegetables are good for me, EE I EE I O.

See the carrots in the ground
(point hands and arms in a point to form a carrot and point to the ground.
I pull them hard without a sound
(pull them out)
I wash and clean them up and down.
(scrub up and down with your palms of your hands)
I love to eat them all year round.
(Pretend to eat carrots with mouth)
http://www.childfun.com/index.php/activity-themes/100-food/218-vegetable-activity-theme.html?start=4

Peter Piper Pumpkin Eater

Nursery Lesson: Daniel Refuses the King's Meat. (Daniel 1)

Games: Vegetable Matching Game (I own a copy of one, but you could make your own simply by printing off pictures of different vegetables.), Color Dice Game (I used a Rubik cube - solved- and also had pieces of paper one with each different color. The idea of the game is for each toddler to roll the dice and then find the colored paper that matches. This was a really simple game, but Davey loves it and asks to play it now all the time.),

Hot Potato (I had a little toy of Davey's that played the tune to different nursery rhymes, it was very easy just to have that next to me and use that as our stop and start music.)


Potato Races (I had Hannah and Davey run different races using potatoes, such as, holding the potato between their legs, or a cooperative one where they had to keep the potato between their heads.)

Shape Matching (Katy printed off four different sheets of shapes, she colored and cut two of the sheet out and used the other two for the toddlers to match the shapes on to.)

Vegetable Scavenger Hunt (same as last week, except with vegetable pictures)

Crafts: A Rainbow of Vegetables (have the toddler color a piece of white paper with the different colors of the rainbow -ROYGBV - use old magazines or grocery store ads to find vegetables of every color, glue them on the paper), Potato Stamps (cut potatoes in half, whittle away different shapes into the potato and then the toddlers can dip them into paint and stamp away onto white paper),

Vegetable Soup (we used the recipe on the back of the book, once again the toddlers helped cut the vegetables and helped toss the pieces into the water. The toddlers didn't love the soup, but I loved it, way yummy and way healthy!)