Find information, activities and recipes to help you promote more fruits and vegetables in the diets of children in your care. Also view resources for:
Resources at the National Agricultural Library Find materials in the NAL collection related to fruit and vegetable promotion, for preschoolers and for elementary school students. For information on borrowing materials, please see the NAL Web site.
Farmer's Market Coloring Book(PDF|1.6 MB) USDA. Agricultural Marketing Service. Coloring book for children featuring various agricultural products and farmers markets.
Fruits and Veggies Family Coloring Book(PDF|1.14 MB) Defense Supply Center Philadelphia Produce Business Unit. Coloring book for young children featuring Buford Broccoli, Girard Garlic, and many other fruit and vegetable characters.
5 a Day the Preschool Way NC Division of Public Health Nutrition Services Branch. Inside this module you will find many tools to assist in improving the child care center nutrition environment. There are circle time and classroom activities, coloring sheets, parent handouts, kid-friendly recipes and other resources. Some of the activities explore or introduce the concepts of counting or color matching using fruits and vegetables.
Nutritious Story Time Training Manual(PDF|1.85 MB) Florida Department of Health.
Five separate lesson plans to promote nutrition education, counting, physical activity, and literacy with young children. Includes parent handouts in English and Spanish. Created for WIC but can be adapted to be used in child care.
Nutrition Lesson Plans for Young Children Texas Department of Health.
Lesson plans, activities and recipes for preschoolers with handouts and discussion questions in English and Spanish.
