Materials:

• songs from dole5aday
• paper plates
• crayons

Procedure:

1. listen to two songs from dole5aday
2. review what foods are in each food group (hold up flash cards or read through the model pyramid book)
3. pass out the paper plates
4. model drawing a meal with at least one food from each group on the paper plate
5. instruct the students to do the same
6. when the children have completed their paper plates, have them bring them up to you and tell you what they drew, write what they drew on the back of their paper plate
7. listen to two songs from dole5aday

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I think it would also be good to add an extra page in their food “pyramid” plate books so that they could do this on the last page of their book.