4-H Camp: Food, Nutrition & Cooking
About the Activities
Living a healthy lifestyle starts with learning skills to make healthy everyday choices. Try these three fun, hands-on activities in food, nutrition, and cooking (including a few tasty recipes!) to help young kids start developing healthy habits today.
Topics: Food, Nutrition & Cooking
Grades: Pre-K-2
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Learn About Nutrition with Play Dough
In this activity, young kids will identify healthy foods alongside a classic children’s book and practice what they learned through a play dough-making and molding activity.
Grades: Pre-K-2
Estimated Time: 45 minutes - 1 hour
Money Matters
Kids will practice beginning skills in counting money and learn how to apply those skills by playing a game where they count and exchange money at the grocery store.
Grades: Pre-K-2
Estimated Time: 30 minutes
Cooking Methods & Recipes
The previous two activities lay the foundation for this fun final challenge of cooking and enjoying some healthy and tasty snacks.
Grades: Pre-K-2
Estimated Time: 30-45 minutes
Camp Memories
"For me camp offered my first tastes of freedom and independence and gave me the confidence to see I could become a different person." - Amanda, Florida 4-H Alumni
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