Overview

Description:	Students hop in and out of a giant circle according to the healthy foods they hear.
Objective:	Students will recognize a variety of healthy foods they can eat for dinner.
Materials:	Small bell, whistle, or dinner-related noisemaker (e.g. salad tongs banging on a salad bowl)

Activity

1. Gather the students into a circle.
2. Remind them it is important to eat different kinds of healthy foods for dinner, a variety of foods, because each one does something very different and very special for our bodies.
3. Explain that they are going to play "Scramble" again, but this time with dinner foods.
4. Tell them you will call out healthy dinner foods (see below). For example, you can say: "If you like to eat pasta for dinner, change spots when the ‘dinner bell’ rings."
5. Everyone who likes pasta should hop to a new empty spot in the circle. (You can either mimic the sound of a bell or use an actual bell, whistle or noisemaker.)
6. If only one student likes the food, she or he should hop to the center of the circle and back to her or his original spot.
7. Continue playing while naming various healthy dinner foods from each food grouping. You can also vary the movements (skip, jump, slide, etc.) the students use to move around the circle.
8. If time permits, ask each student to name one new, healthy dinner food she or he will try.

Background Information

Healthy ("Go") Dinner and Dessert Foods and Drinks:

fish	pasta with tomato sauce
veggie pizza	rice and beans
salad	chicken wraps
zucchini	turkey burgers
spinach	steamed broccoli
melon	baked potatoes
tuna	low-fat or skim milk
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