we just did this with -2-5 year olds. I bought some books and we created a book about us. What food makes us healthy we played games with our pretend food. then we talked about what happens to the food when we eat it.
we talked about our hearts one day and even had a video from the library about it
I took picutes of food groups, like a pic of a fish and I held it up to my arms and told the kids that fish is protein and protein makes muscles, ask all the kids to flex and show you their muslces.. I also put it on my head to show them it is great brain food. We would then get into what do muslces do and why we need them. We talked about our brain and what it does.

held up a pic of a carrot, carrots give us vitamins and are good for our eyes, hold it up to your eyes. then talk about what do our eyes do?

same things with pictures of steak, eggs, milk, yogurt, fruits and other veggies

We also did alot with our senses...

I think that it might be a little advanced for your group, but hopefully I gave you something to work with.

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