{"id":1239,"date":"2025-03-03T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeducatorsspinonit.com\/2012\/03\/little-hands-that-cook-with-books-lets-eat-a-rainbow.html"},"modified":"2025-07-22T08:49:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T12:49:31","slug":"little-hands-that-cook-with-books-lets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theeducatorsspinonit.com\/little-hands-that-cook-with-books-lets\/","title":{"rendered":"Let’s eat a RAINBOW!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Explore creative ways to encourage your kids to “eat the rainbow” while enjoying colorful fruits and vegetables.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

March is National Nutrition Month, and with St. Patrick’s Day approaching, it’s the perfect time to teach your child about healthy eating with fun, rainbow-themed snacks and activities!<\/p>\n\n\n

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Let’s Eat a Rainbow!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

With St. Patrick’s Day<\/a> just around the corner and rainbows everywhere, here’s your teachable moment to talk about Nutrition with your child and how they can eat a rainbow everyday! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We’ve been pinning all sorts of Rainbow Themed Snacks on our Cooking with Kids<\/a> and Spring Projects to Make & Do <\/a>Pinterest Boards. Come check them out and Follow Us!<\/p>\n\n\n

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Rainbow Recipes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

One recipe that caught our eye was shared on our AfterSchool Party <\/p>\n\n\n

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Spinach Artichoke Hummus<\/a> by Kids Activity Blog that makes a Rainbow and Pot of Gold from Peppers created by JDanial4’s Mom<\/a>. So cute! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eat The Rainbow competition just for fun, see who can eat the most fruits or veggies in a day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here is a Fruit Rainbow by Live, Learn, Love Eat<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Live, Learn Love, Eat<\/a> even made a rainbow from VEGETABLES<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rainbow Fruit Skewers<\/a> by Blogs Babble<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have a Fruit Princess Wand<\/a> lesson too with Little Hands that Cook<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bent on Better Lunches<\/a> is a part of a Blog Hop about St. Patrick’s Day with many other Bento Box Bloggers<\/p>\n\n\n

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Check out the amount of colors available in fruits and veggies!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Need More Activities About Nutrition?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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Reading and Singing about Nutrition <\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Heres a great program for your kids called Today I Ate A Rainbow.<\/a> They even have a special song.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is my one of my favorite Rainbow Songs from teaching Kindergarten.  It’s has nothing to do about physical rainbow colors but everything to do celebrating diversity.  I love that it helps to connect with our Around the World Cooking Lessons<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The World is a Rainbow <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

by Greg <\/a>and Steve <\/a>(Click on Greg<\/a> to see him sing)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The world is a rainbow
That’s filled with many colors:
Yellow, black, and white, and brown,
You see them all around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The world is a rainbow
With many kinds of people;
It takes all kinds of people
To make the world go round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now you be you
And I’ll be me.
That’s the way we were meant to be.
But the world is a mixing cup.
Just look what happens when you stir it up!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The world is a rainbow
With many kinds of people;
And when we work together
It’s such a sight to see.
The world is beautiful when we live in harmony!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now you be you
And I’ll be me.
That’s the way we were meant to be.
But the world is a mixing cup.
Just look what happens when you stir it up!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Books on Rainbows<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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