Grow It, Try It, Like It! Nutrition Education Kit Featuring MyPlate is a garden-themed nutrition education kit for child care center staff that introduces children to: three fruits - peaches, strawberries, and cantaloupe, and three vegetables - spinach, sweet potatoes, and crookneck squash. The kit includes seven booklets featuring fruits and vegetables with fun activities through the imaginary garden at Tasty Acres Farm! It also has a CD-ROM with Supplemental Information and a DVD with Cool Puppy Pup's Picnic and Lunch Parties. Each set of lessons contains: hands-on activities, planting activities, and nutrition education activities that introduce MyPlate. Use the kit to promote learning at home with fun parent/child activities and family-sized recipes that give tips for cooking with children.
Available: in PDF, below, or hard copies may be ordered by using the Resource Order Form
- Book 1 - The Basics
- Fruit & Veggie Drawings
- Blackline Masters
- Book 2 - Crookneck Squash Row
- Book 3 - Spinach Lane
- Book 4 - Sweet Potato Hill
- Book 5 - Cantaloupe Corner
- Book 6 - Peach Tree Orchard
- Book 7 - Strawberry Patch
- Food and Nutrition Fun for Preschoolers
Also See Grow It, Try It, Like It! Fun with Fruits and Vegetables at Family Child Care