Super Snack Lady has posted before about how to get your kids hooked on veggies and fruits. Yes, she sometimes wears a cape to her school visits along with a variety of other shirts that encourage healthy eating. Are you wondering right now, "How am I supposed to do that too?!?!" Super Snack Lady totally understands! It's a challenge to get kids to try new things. To be honest, trying new fruits and veggies has to be fun, exciting, and interesting. It can be so much more than having your child eat "just two more bites of _______" before they can get up from the table.
Get all of the senses involved. Did you know that mushrooms smell like the woods or "the outside" as kids normally say? Or how about the nice, fuzzy outside of a peach? Not to mention the wonderful rainbow of colors that the earth has given us in all fruits and vegetables. Kids are even surprised at the crunch of an apple (yes, other fruits and vegetables other than carrots make a crunch!).
If getting their senses involved doesn't work there is one last ditch effort to be made: Cute, fun video clips with songs and sometimes celebrities trying to convince kids to eat healthy or even be active. Check out the ones below for some entertainment (warning: some songs might be caught in your head all day!)
Using Your Senses
Captain Vegetable on Sesame Street
Will.i.am- What I Am (a song about being who you are and being your best)
Let's All Exercise!
Even Cookie Monster Eats Healthy Foods
These are all Sesame Street clips, but you'd be surprised to find out that Super Snack Lady has seen 5th graders jam out to the Will.i.am clip! Enjoy!
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