Your students will have fun making art from prints of fruit and vegetables. Purchase an array of fruits and vegetables---hard varieties, such as potatoes, zucchini, apples and pears are ideal. Cut the food in half so that the center is exposed. Pour a shallow amount of different colored tempera paint onto paper plates and lay them in the center of a table. Place the cut pieces of food, centers down, into the different colors of paint. Supply children with pieces of paper. Children stamp the paint-covered pieces of fruits and vegetables on their pieces of paper, creating interesting artwork. This is not only fun, but also allows children to see what the inside of the food looks like.
Have your students create collages of healthy foods. Provide them with old cookbooks, food magazines and grocery store circulars. Also provide them with scissors, glue and blank pieces of paper. Children sort through the cookbooks, magazines and circulars looking for pictures of nutritious food to cut out. After they have cut out their pictures, have them glue them to their own piece of blank paper. When they are finished with the project, they can share their work with their class, discussing the healthy foods they have selected.
Through this craft, children learn how much of each food group they should eat each day. In advance, prepare a blank food pyramid worksheet for children. Label each part of the pyramid and how many servings of each item they should have every day on the blank pyramid. Give each student a pyramid, as well as crayons and markers. Children use the art mediums to draw pictures of different foods, filling in the different sections of the food pyramid.