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10 Toddler meal ideas with nutritious food.

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Take the guess work out of what to make for your littles with some of these meal ideas. Hope you're having a great day and this brings a smile to your face.

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Take yogurt and divide into different dishes and add different shades of food coloring to the yogurt and let children finger paint while they can taste it.

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I decided that we needed some kind of Valentine's Day activity to do, instead of just crafty and artsy ideas.

We did a heart hunt last year, with great success.

But this year, I wanted to make Henry think about love a little.

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So I came up with the Hunt For Love Valentine's activity.

To start, we needed to make plain white paper bags pretty so its ready for some love, right?

George was around and awake, so we wanted to include him and have him decorate a bag too.

I quickly came up with something that's colorful, edible and can be painted with.

Yogurt.

I split it up into four dishes (two for each of the boys) and added purple and pink food coloring to each of them.

Ta-da. Done. Edible fingerpaint. Super fast. Super easy.

(Or you can make this awesome Homemade Edible Finger Paint that has a gel consistency.)

The boys loved this paint! George might have loved it too much and ate quite a bit...

But it was a lot of fun.

After decorating our bags with paint. Henry and I embellished ours with glitter.

I cut out a heart stencil from a scrap piece of paper.

Henry shook the glitter on over it, and the glitter stuck nicely to the wet yogurt paint!

So we had made our plain white paper bags... pretty!

After a couple days of letting the paint dry, we got around to our Hunt For Love.

(FYI: the bags ripped a little when I opened them up. I should have opened them right away when they were done painting and stuffed them with newspapers.)

Within seconds of my handing the boys their paper Valentine's bags... George ripped his to shreds. This kept George busy though!

Meanwhile, Henry and I worked on filling our bags with things we love. I tried to focus on Who we love, instead of material objects.

This was a little abstract for Henry since we couldn't physically put a person that we loved into these small little paper bags.

I wasn't too worried about it, and let Henry fill his up as he pleased.

Instead of telling him how to do this the way I had intended... As I filled mine up, I made suggestions by saying what I was putting in my bag and who it reminded me of.

Such as, "I love Dad, so I'm going to put this cookie in my bag. The cookie reminds me of Dad because he works at the bakery."

or...

"This letter G reminds me of George because George starts with G."

After a couple of these examples, Henry caught on a little bit. He grabbed the letter M and put it in for Mom!

Along with... His red combine, the grain truck and other favorite toys of his...

It was a fun little Valentine's activity to talk to Henry about people we love. It was also neat to see him think in an abstract way, and glad he caught onto it, at least a little.

Other Paper Bag Activities we've done:

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Valentine's Activity for Kids: Hunt for Love

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I decided that we needed some kind of Valentine's Day activity to do, instead of just crafty and artsy ideas. We did a heart hunt last year, with great success. But this year, I wanted to make Henry think about love a little.

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Children get to learn about food through a rainbow of colors and creative animal characters made out of real fruit and vegetables.This book includes activity suggestions and health tips from the author.

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Basic Food Groups-A song to sing with children during circle time.

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Basic Food Groups-A song to sing with children during circle time.

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Here are the food groups:
Dairy, bread, and meat
And don’t forest that vegetables
Are important for you to eat.
Have a food from each food group
Each and every day,
And you’ll grow strong and healthy
Good nutrition is the way!

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Gather the following items.

1. Peanut Butter

2. Bread

3. Raisins

4. Alfalfa or bean sprouts

5. Squeezable cheese

6. other small items

Spread peanut butter on one side of the bread-open faced.Have the children make eyes, mouth, nose, and hair from other items you provide.
When done let them eat the sandwich they created.

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Give each child a paper plate & sliced fruit. Have each child create themselves using the slices of fruit. Examples: Grapes for eyes, sliced apples for eyebrows, banana sliced length wise a mouth, and kiwi slice for a nose.  Children will get to experiment the color and texture of fruit.

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How to Get a Picky Eater to Eat (Toddler)
  

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How to Get a Picky Eater to Eat (Toddler)
  

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Tips to get a meticulous to eat.

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How to Get a Picky Eater to Eat (Toddler)

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http://MamaNatural.com Griffin was such a picky eater that I seriously thought I'd have to admit him to the hospital and put him on a feeding tube. And let's face it; few things bring us more satisfaction that seeing our kids well nourished. Somehow I feel I've "failed" if this isn't the case.

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Superdooperfoodalicious - Healthy Eating Song by Mark D. Pencil

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Superdooperfoodalicious - Healthy Eating Song by Mark D. Pencil

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Food groups and serving sizes.

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Superdooperfoodalicious - Healthy Eating Song by Mark D. Pencil

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A book about Finger Food for babies and toddlers

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A book about Finger Food for babies and toddlers

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Recipes for food that can be eaten by hand by Jennie Maizels

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Nutritious Meal Ideas for the picky toddler.

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Subscribe to Lunamommyvlogs here: https://www.youtube.com/user/lunababyvlogs Hello Everyone! So an updated Toddler Meal Ideas video was requested since Annalee is now a little older and eating a bit different. I hope all you mommies can get some ideas on what to feed your picky toddlers,because its not really easy.

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The teacher can cut out pictures of fruits, grains, vegetables, protein, and dairy then have the children glue them on the plate into the right sections to make breakfast, lunches, and dinners. Children will learn what groups food belong in.

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Eat Your Vegetables Song By LittleBabyBum

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Eat Your Vegetables Song By LittleBabyBum

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A song to sing together during circle time while children learn the color, shape, size and texture of vegetables.

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Eat Your Vegetables Song | Nursery Rhymes | Original Song by LittleBabyBum!