Fun Food Pyramid Program for Kids

We are teaming up with the American Medical Association to recruit support and volunteers. We have already contacted multiple elementary schools about visiting their after-school programs to present our activities. The majority of the schools have already replied and expressed great interest in having us. We plan to set up a few "stations" through which the kids can rotate to learn about the food pyramid. One station will have a game with six hoops held by volunteers, each representing a different section of the food pyramid. The students, divided into two teams, will toss fake stuffed "foods" into the category of hoop they belong in. Another station will have a coloring activity that asks the students to draw a dinner they could have that night to finish their "food pyramid" for the day based on what they had eaten earlier in the day. A third station will have a healthy snack. Since physical activity is now considered part of the food pyramid, we will end the activities with a relay race to get everyone's heart rate up!