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Food Model Activities 11 - Happy Food Song

Grade Level: Preschool / Kindergarten

Activity Synopsis

After they learn the "Happy Food Song," students sing and perform large-motor movements and hold up their Food Models to identify different foods.

Activity Outcomes

Students will be able to:

• Identify a food through music movement

Materials and Advance Prep

• Select the Food Models that you plan to use in the song - 1 per student

What to Do

1. Teach children the Happy Food Song (sung to the tune, "If You're Happy and You Know It") and demonstrate the actions.
2. Give each child a Food Model and identify their food.
3. Sing the Happy Food Song and insert the name of one of the Food Models at the appropriate spot. Have the child with the Food Model hold it up for all to see. Have the rest of the group sing and perform the activity. For example:
   If there's cheese and you know it, stomp your feet,
   If there's cheese and you know it, stomp you feet,
   If you're cheese and you know it, hold your food card up and show us,
   If there's cheese and you know it, stomp you feet.
4. Substitute "jump up and down," "touch your toes," "nod your head," and other activities that use large motor skills for "stomp your feet." Feel free to improvise with other actions and gestures.

Going Further

For advanced groups, substitute food groupings for an individual food item, e.g., banana and apple. Or substitute other food characteristics, like round, crunchy, chewy, wet, dry or sticky.

Contributed by:
Barbara Adkins
Center for Creative Child Care
Lima, Ohio

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