KIDS HOPE AUS. THEMED MENTOR HOUR July 2014 HEALTHY EATING

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1 KIDS HOPE AUS. THEMED MENTOR HOUR July 2014 HEALTHY EATING USEFUL WEBSITES Below are some great websites with fantastic resources around the theme of healthy eating. Including information and activities on dirt and germs, food groups, tasting, eating a rainbow whole foods and nutrients, and much more! y.pdf AUSTRALIAN GUIDE TO HEALTHY EATING On the following pages are 2 illustrations which may be helpful in helping your child understand which foods are healthy and also the relevant amounts to consume. You could print the 2 sheets to show your child. The blank sheet could be used for your child to draw or write the foods they prefer to eat in each category.

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4 LANGUAGE ACTIVITIES Fruits Word Search Puzzle E P U O L A T N A C S B L A E C K B E E R R I C P E E P M S B L M U E B E H G R P R I I E S O C H E R E R R I A L N E C N T O C I R P A A S R A E N L O D S T R Y R A P W G B A E E L T R Y R R E B E U L B P R M E A I E S R A R F E N O P U E M N T R E E A L R L I Y L F N R G R U I B T T U W H P E E T E E Y A A W R E I A C T U O I T R A N L A L K T Y B E M R N A I A R Y R R E B K C A L B E W N I E S T B U T T T H E Y A A E R E G S O O D O R A N G E FRUIT WORD LIST APPLE APRICOT BANANA BLACKBERRY BLUEBERRY CANTALOUPE CHERRY CLEMENTINE GRAPEFRUIT GRAPES KIWI LEMON LIME ORANGE PINEAPPLE PLUM STRAWBERRY TANGERINE TOMATO WATERMELON

5 Name the healthy foods on this page.

6 FOOD AND OUR BODY TYPE OF FOOD HOW IT AFFECTS OUR BODY Give us energy to move ENERGY FOODS FRUIT & VEGETABLES Give us vitamins that are good for our eyes, our brains and our skin. MILK PRODUCTS Give us calcium that is good for our bones

7 MEAT, FISH, EGGS & NUTS Give us protein which is good for our muscles FATS & SUGARS Too much fat and sugar is bad for our body.

8 MAKE A POSTER Cut out pictures of different foods from magazines or supermarket brochures. On a large piece of card or paper, rule a line down the centre. Write the following headings for the 2 sections Healthy Foods and Unhealthy Foods. Paste the food pictures on the appropriate part of the page.

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11 SCIENCE ACTIVITIES DIET COKE ERUPTION One of the most popular experiments of modern times is the Diet Coke and Mentos Geyser. Made popular by Steve Spangler, this experiment is a lot of fun and sure to amaze your friends and family (assuming you do it outside rather than in the living room). What you'll need: Large bottle of Diet Coke About half a pack of Mentos Geyser tube (optional but makes things much easier) Instructions: Make sure you are doing this experiment in a place where you won't get in trouble for getting Diet Coke everywhere. Outside on some grass is perfect, please don't try this one in your family lounge!! Stand the Diet Coke upright and unscrew the lid. Put some sort of funnel or tube on top of it so you can drop the Mentos in at the same time (about half the pack is a good amount). Doing this part can be tricky if you don't have a specially designed geyser tube, I recommend buying one from a local store such as Natures Discoveries (NZ) or online. Time for the fun part, drop the Mentos into the Diet Coke and run like mad! If you've done it properly a huge geyser of Diet Coke should come flying out of the bottle, it's a very impressive sight. The record is about 9 metres high! What's happening? Although there are a few different theories around about how this experiment works, the most favoured reason is because of the combination of carbon dioxide in the Diet Coke and the little dimples found on Mentos candy pieces. The thing that makes soda drinks bubbly is the carbon dioxide that is pumped in when they bottle the drink at the factory. It doesn't get released from the liquid until you pour it into a glass and drink it, some also gets released when you open the lid (more if you shake it up beforehand). This means that there is a whole lot of carbon dioxide gas just waiting to escape the liquid in the form of bubbles. Dropping something into the Diet Coke speeds up this process by both breaking the surface tension of the liquid and also allowing bubbles to form on the surface area of the Mentos. Mentos candy pieces are covered in tiny dimples (a bit like a golf ball), which dramatically increases the surface area and allows a huge amount of bubbles to form. The experiment works better with Diet Coke than other sodas due to its slightly different ingredients and the fact that it isn't so sticky. I also found that Diet Coke that had been bottled more recently worked better than older bottles that might have lost some of their fizz sitting on shop shelves for too long, just check the bottle for the date.

12 BAKING SODA AND VINEGAR VOLCANO Use baking soda and vinegar to create an awesome chemical reaction! Watch as it rapidly fizzes over the container and make sure you've got some towels ready to clean up. What you'll need: Baking Soda (make sure it's not baking powder) Vinegar A container to hold everything and avoid a big mess! Paper towels or a cloth (just in case) Instructions: 1. Place some of the baking soda into your container. 2. Pour in some of the vinegar 3. Watch as the reaction takes place! What's happening? The baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) is a base while the vinegar (acetic acid) is an acid. When they react together they form carbonic acid which is very unstable, it instantly breaks apart into water and carbon dioxide, which creates all the fizzing as it escapes the solution. For extra effect you can make a realistic looking volcano. It takes some craft skills but it will make your vinegar and baking soda eruptions will look even more impressive! TASTE TEST WITHOUT SMELL We all know that some foods taste better than others but what gives us the ability to experience all these unique flavours? This simple experiment shows that there's a lot more to taste than you might have first thought. What you'll need: A small piece of peeled potato A small piece of peeled apple (same shape as the potato so you can't tell the difference) Instructions:

13 Close your eyes and mix up the piece of potato and the piece of apple so you don't know which is which. Hold your nose and eat each piece, can you tell the difference? What's happening? Holding your nose while tasting the potato and apple makes it hard to tell the difference between the two. Your nose and mouth are connected through the same airway which means that you taste and smell foods at the same time. Your sense of taste can recognize salty, sweet, bitter and sour but when you combine this with your sense of smell you can recognize many other individual 'tastes'. Take away your smell (and sight) and you limit your brains ability to tell the difference between certain foods. MAKE AN EGG FLOAT IN SALT WATER An egg sinks to the bottom if you drop it into a glass of ordinary drinking water but what happens if you add salt? The results are very interesting and can teach you some fun facts about density. What you'll need: One egg Water Salt A tall drinking glass Instructions: 1. Pour water into the glass until it is about half full. 2. Stir in lots of salt (about 6 tablespoons). 3. Carefully pour in plain water until the glass is nearly full (be careful to not disturb or mix the salty water with the plain water). 4. Gently lower the egg into the water and watch what happens. What's happening? Salt water is denser than ordinary tap water, the denser the liquid the easier it is for an object to float in it. When you lower the egg into the liquid it drops through the normal tap water until it reaches the salty water, at this point the water is dense enough for the egg to float. If you were careful when you added the tap water to the salt water, they will not have mixed, enabling the egg to amazingly float in the middle of the glass.

14 TASTE TESTING A taste test encourages kids to try healthy foods. A blindfolded taste test adds a little excitement and mystery to this activity. Cut up several different foods. An assortment of fruits and vegetables works well, especially if you throw in some new produce that the kids haven't tried. The kids try one item at a time to guess what it is. CHOCOLATE Experiment with chocolate in a variety of different conditions, at what temperature does it melt? Can you resist the temptation to eat your experiment?

15 CRAFTS FINGERPRINT APPLE OR CHERRY TREE Use your fingers to create this easy apple or cherry tree. The picture to the right is a photograph of the finished craft. Stamp the side of your hand in brown paint and stamp it on the paper as the trunk. Stamp your index finger in green paint and stamp it many times on the paper for the leaves (re-dipping in the paint as necessary) Stamp your pinkie finger in red paint and stamp it lightly on the paper for the apples (light stamps make rounder prints)

16 OLD MOTHER HUBBARD S CUPBOARD PAPER CRAFT Fill old mother Hubbard's cupboard with healthy food for her family. You can use the template provided or make your own with construction paper. Materials: printer paper scissors glue fliers (advertisements from grocery stores) Instructions: Print out the template. Cut out along the outside of the large rectangle (the very outside edge of the cupboard). Fold the cupboard doors so they meet in the middle. o Construction paper option: Fold a piece of construction paper from the right and the left so the edges meet in the middle (make cupboard doors). Cut out images of healthy food to fill Old Mother Hubbard's cupboard from grocery store fliers and glue them inside the cupboard.

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18 COOKING FRUIT KEBABS Take along some large skewers and a small selection of different fruits. Cut the fruit into even size pieces and thread a selection onto the skewers and enjoy a healthy snack with your child.