Make a Food Face Plate to Encourage Picky Eaters

One of the important things we need to teach kids is how to eat a healthy variety of foods.

If you have a picky eater in your family, you know that can be difficult to get kids to eat strange-to-them foods.

This DIY food face plate project from Adventure in a Box is a fun idea that might get kids interested in trying some healthy options that aren’t as fun looking when not presented as hair, a beard or other features on a face.

All you need for this project is a glass plate and a marker to draw the face with. The post shares a few options and how well they work and wear. Use the templates provided at Adventure in a Box or draw your own.

I think even kids who aren’t that picky would love their food presented on one of these fun plates. What do you think?

[Photo via Adventure in a Box.]

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Summer Reading Printables and Tips for Parents

I’m in deep denial about the fact that new year is almost upon us again! It’s been the fastest and the longest year at the same time, and I can look back and see some good things as well as some things I wish had gone differently.

Doing a year in review with your kids — whether in the classroom or at home — is a good way to capture some of their memories and the things they really liked about the year gone by.

There are a lot of different printable year in review worksheets you can use if you want to make this super easy. Here are links to a few (often part of larger posts about NYE celebrations with kids that are worth a read, too):

Teach Beside Me has lots of fun printables fro the end of the year, including a year in review that covers favorite memory, funniest memory and the best book they read, among other topics.
NurtureStore‘s version has space for a self-portrait and prompts like favorite toy, best day out this year and future dream job.
Remember favorites, their “best idea” of the year and have room for setting goals for next year with this one from The Keele Deal.
The year in review from Yes We Made This has room for drawing or writing and includes things like something they learned, a memory they made and a place they visited.

Of course you could pretty easily make your own year in review for the whole family to do that asks questions based on what you most want to remember. (Favorite video game? Best friend? Favorite family memory?)

And if after the year in review you’re ready to look ahead a bit, Mrs. Merry has new year’s resolution printables to inspired kids to look ahead and set goals for things they want to try. You can totally fill this one out as a grownup, too.

[Photo: Mrs. Merry]

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