Let’s eat a RAINBOW!

Explore creative ways to encourage your kids to “eat the rainbow” while enjoying colorful fruits and vegetables.

March is National Nutrition Month, and with St. Patrick’s Day approaching, it’s the perfect time to teach your child about healthy eating with fun, rainbow-themed snacks and activities!

Let’s Eat a Rainbow!

With St. Patrick’s Day just around the corner and rainbows everywhere, here’s your teachable moment to talk about Nutrition with your child and how they can eat a rainbow everyday!

We’ve been pinning all sorts of Rainbow Themed Snacks on our Cooking with Kids and Spring Projects to Make & Do Pinterest Boards. Come check them out and Follow Us!

Rainbow Recipes

One recipe that caught our eye was shared on our AfterSchool Party

Spinach Artichoke Hummus by Kids Activity Blog that makes a Rainbow and Pot of Gold from Peppers created by JDanial4’s Mom. So cute!

Eat The Rainbow competition just for fun, see who can eat the most fruits or veggies in a day.

Here is a Fruit Rainbow by Live, Learn, Love Eat.

Live, Learn Love, Eat even made a rainbow from VEGETABLES!

Rainbow Fruit Skewers by Blogs Babble

We have a Fruit Princess Wand lesson too with Little Hands that Cook

Bent on Better Lunches is a part of a Blog Hop about St. Patrick’s Day with many other Bento Box Bloggers

Check out the amount of colors available in fruits and veggies!

 Need More Activities About Nutrition?

Reading and Singing about Nutrition

Heres a great program for your kids called Today I Ate A Rainbow. They even have a special song.

Here is my one of my favorite Rainbow Songs from teaching Kindergarten.  It’s has nothing to do about physical rainbow colors but everything to do celebrating diversity.  I love that it helps to connect with our Around the World Cooking Lessons.

The World is a Rainbow

by Greg and Steve (Click on Greg to see him sing)

The world is a rainbow
That’s filled with many colors:
Yellow, black, and white, and brown,
You see them all around.

The world is a rainbow
With many kinds of people;
It takes all kinds of people
To make the world go round.

Now you be you
And I’ll be me.
That’s the way we were meant to be.
But the world is a mixing cup.
Just look what happens when you stir it up!

The world is a rainbow
With many kinds of people;
And when we work together
It’s such a sight to see.
The world is beautiful when we live in harmony!

Now you be you
And I’ll be me.
That’s the way we were meant to be.
But the world is a mixing cup.
Just look what happens when you stir it up!

Books on Rainbows

Rainbow Activities and Resources

• Eating a Rainbow Activities  from Toddler Approved
• Learning About Food Groups
• Colorful Fun: Hands On Activities for Color Words
• Fruit and Veggie Color List  for color of foods
• Rainbow Activities from Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas
• Rainbow Resources from Squiddo
• Let’s Talk Nutrition-Activities and Resources
• Weather Hop-Resources from MANY bloggers
• Ideas for St. Patrick’s Day Food from Kitchen Fun with My 3 Sons
• Rainbow Tot Pack from 1+1+1=1

• Make a Rainbow Necklace –
  Using Cereal or Pasta create a necklace-Build Fine Motor Skills
• Make a Fruit and Veggie Color Book –
  Using flyers from groceries stores and magazines cut out pictures of fruits and vegetables and place them onto the page that matches the color. Use the text below cut and glue to each page of the book.

• Make your Own Rainbow List of Fruits and Vegetables-
  Brainstorm all the different fruits and veggies there are and write them under the color words. See how many you can find. See you many you can eat in one week. At the grocery store shop for the rainbow with your child

How Many Ways Can you Make a Rainbow?

Have fun cooking and eating with Rainbows! Want more ideas from Little Hands that Cook with Books? Click Here!

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