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Promoting Fruits and Vegetables
– For more information, visit the Eat Smart. Play Hard. tm Web site
at www.fns.usda.gov/eatsmartplayhard/.
• Sponsor a “Fruity Fashion Event” for 1 week.
– Divide classes into teams.
– Each team draws a fruit, and the color of the
fruit is their “fashion color.”
– Designate how many points the team will get if
students wear clothing items corresponding to
that color—or if they create fruit and veggie
costumes from paper bags.
–Tally the team totals at the end of the week.
– Reward the winning team with a fruit treat.
•Create a “Fruit and Vegetable Trivia Contest.”
– Place table tents in the cafeteria with fun fruit
and vegetable trivia.
– Students receive a trivia questionnaire from
the serving line.
– They can find the answers to the questionnaire
on the table tents.
– Students enter questionnaires in a drawing
for small prizes.
• Sponsor a “Veggie Walk.”
–Create vegetable sculptures or special vegetable dishes, or purchase
miniature fruit and vegetable “seedie” characters from
www.shop5aday.com.
– Set up an area in the cafeteria or a classroom for the walk, typically
a large circle.
– Divide the circle into sections named for different vegetables.
– Play music as students walk around in the circle.
–When the music stops, students should stop so that a student is in each of
the sections. Draw the name of one of the vegetables. The student in that
section wins a veggie sculpture or special veggie dish.
Make eating fruits
and vegetables fun
for students.
• Have a “Guess the Beans Contest”.
– Fill a jar with beans, or black-eyed peas, raisins, pearl onions, or other
appropriate fruits or vegetables.
– Place it on the serving line or in the dining room.
–Provide slips of paper and pencils for students to write their best guess.
–Provide a box or container to hold the paper slips.
–Award the winning student a fruit or vegetable prize. A favorite request
might be fun.
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