Snack Challenge Game
After students are familiar with the food groups and the foods in them, play this fun game to help them identify snack foods in each group.
Students will be able to:
- Name snacks from each food group
- Cooperate as a team
Materials:
- Food group die. Directions for making it:
Cut the tops off two half-pint milk cartons. Fit one carton inside another to make a cube. Glue a different color on each side of the cube – blue, red, orange, green, yellow and brown. On the blue paper, write Milk Group; on the red; Meat; on the orange, Vegetable; on the green, Fruit; on the yellow, Grain; and on the white, Combinations.
What to Do:
1. Divide the class into 4 to 6 teams.
2. Make a chart on the board with 6 columns – one for each food group and one for Combination Foods. Also, list the teams down the left-hand side of the chart.
3. Introduce the categories on the die and explain the game rules.
- Teams take turns rolling the die.
- Teams have to name a snack food for the food group shown on the die.
- As the snacks are named, you will write them on the chart on the board.
- Teams earn a point if they name a new snack from that group. They cannot re-name snacks already listed.
- If a team names a snack from the wrong category, they don’t get any points and lose their turn.
- A team wins the game when they have collected 12 points.
4. Optional:
Download “Mix
‘n Match Snack” (pdf) blackline master.
Distribute and have children take it home. Be sure
to point out the section of the handout where children
write snack combinations they would like to try.
Source: Snack Treks, National Dairy Council® , 1993.
