Discover a fun nutrition craft with our ‘Eat the Rainbow’ craft. Teach your kids the importance of eating colorful fruits and vegetables while engaging them in a hands-on art project.
This nutrition craft reinforces healthy eating habits and sparks curiosity about different colors of fruits and vegetables.
Getting kids to try new fruits and vegetables can be a challenge. I get it. Another challenge is to get them to eat multiple colors of vegetables (your child may only want to eat green beans).
This craft is perfect to teach your kids about the importance of eating a variety of colors. The goal of this craft is to help kids make better foods choices and to try new foods.
Every day we should try to eat a rainbow. Eating a rainbow means eating different colors of fruits and vegetables. Try to add color to your plate by adding colorful fruits and vegetables.
Make sure to add fruits and vegetables to your meals and snacks. All forms of fruits and vegetables count – fresh, frozen, canned (no added salt and sugar), dried, and 100% juice – as part of a healthy diet.
Why Is It Important To Eat The Rainbow?
As you make this craft with your child, discuss why it is important to eat different colors of fruits and vegetables.
Eating many different colors of fruits and vegetables gives our body all of the vitamins and minerals it needs to keep us healthy and strong. Eating plenty of colorful fruits and vegetables helps keep your heart healthy.
Red / purple / blue fruits and vegetables keeps your heart healthy and maintains memory function.
Orange / yellow fruits and vegetables keeps your eyes healthy, keeps your skin healthy, and helps fight infection.
Green fruits and vegetables helps with strong teeth and bones, keeps your eyes healthy.
Eat The Rainbow Craft Supplies
- Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple construction paper
- White paper
- Grocery store sales ads
- Glue stick
- Scissors
How To Make an Eat the Rainbow Craft
Step 1: Cut the construction paper.
Begin by cutting strips of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple construction paper. These will form the rainbow pattern.
Step 2: Glue the rainbow pattern.
Then, glue the strips of construction paper onto a piece of white paper in the order of a rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple.
Step 3: Cut out pictures.
Next, gather grocery store sales ads or print out pictures of various fruits and vegetables. Encourage your child to cut out different colors of fruits and vegetables from the sales ads.
Step 4: Glue the pictures.
Next, glue the pictures onto the rainbow pattern, matching each fruit and vegetable to the corresponding color strip. For example, red strawberries would be glued onto the red strip, orange carrots onto the orange strip, and so on.
I hope you enjoy making this eat the rainbow craft with your kids. This nutrition craft is a great craft to help kids visualize eating the rainbow / eating a variety of colors.
