Classroom Food and Nutrition Tools and Games
Fun, Educational Nutrition Tools and Games for Students and Parents
Nutrition Tools-Games
Food Pyramid
Nutrition Dictionary
Food Labels
Meal Planner
BMI Calculator
Nourishinteractive.com is the first website to create “matching” interactive nutritional tools, one for the parent and one for the child. We keep it colorful for the elementary school child and for the parents. We know that kids like to learn in fun ways and using technology in your classroom helps engage the child. We want parents to enjoy learning about nutrition as well. These free nutrition education tools send similar messages to both the parent and child, so the entire family can work as a team to establish good nutrition at home.
All our interactive features are available in English and Spanish.
We also have a printable list of all of our nutrition tools and games available to use by elementary schools, after school programs and general nutrition education programs that teachers, school administrators and health care providers can review at their own leisure. Just click to print our information guide Teaching Nutrition In The Classroom.
Quick Nutrition Tools Reference
All the parents’ tools are located in the parents’ healthy nutrition tools section. But you can easily access any food pyramid tools by clicking on the images on this page.
See a complete list of our games and what they teach.
Food Pyramid Games Webpage
Enjoy our food pyramid oriented games. Each one with an associated lesson plan.
These games are designed to teach children about the food groups and what foods belong in each food group. Go to the Pyramid Game Page
Our Nutrition Word Games offer a variety of games such as crossword puzzles and word search. Each one with an associated lesson plan.
These games are designed to teach children about the healthy foods and healthy choices. Most games on this page will help boost vocabulary while enhancing reading skills. Go to the Word Game Page
The Chef Solus Games features games that are associated with creating a healthy meal. Each one with an associated lesson plan.
These games are designed to teach children about how to eating healthy foods and make a balanced meal using foods from all the food groups. Go to the Chef Game Page
Explorers’ Kids Nutrition Story Fun Webpage
Our monthly themed online nutrition newsletter for kids with activities and facts to promote each month's nutrition topic.
Includes suggested activities kids can do at home. For more nutrition themes and topics for kids, visit our Explorers Library!
Chef Solus Food Pyramid Game
The Chef Solus and the Food Pyramid Adventure Game is our free featured game that requires a username and password to access it. Read more about our free self-paced, multi- level nutrition game with pre and post quizzes and more! This game is complete with a Set-up Guide, Teacher Manual and send home Progress Reports for each level!
The Food Pyramid and Food Groups
The Food Pyramid is a great introduction to the foundation to good healthy eating.
Parents and children each have their own version of this Food Pyramid. This colorful interactive feature reviews the food groups and oils and the importance of daily activity. Just scroll over the parts of the food pyramid with a mouse.
The children’s version has audio for those children still learning to read. The child’s version can be found in our Food Pyramid Games kids' section.
Nutrition Dictionary
Nutrition vocabulary can be a little overwhelming with the various nutrition terms. We have a colorful Nutrition Dictionary for the parents and the child.
The children’s version provides audio that will automatically say the nutrition word when selected. This will help the child with correct pronunciation.
Food Labels
Parents and kids will enjoy our easy to learn food label tutorial and quiz. Just scroll over the different parts of the food label with a mouse. Parents are given nutritional information about the various ingredients (i.e. sodium, fiber) as they take their quiz.
Kids will enjoy hearing Chef Solus talk about the different parts of the food label. The kids’ quiz has three parts. The first part tests the child on finding the parts of the food label. The second part challenges the child to compare labels and select the food label with the correct answer. The final part of the quiz, the child will go into a virtual grocery store, where he/she can select two to three food items and place them in their basket. They will have to select the food item that best answers the question.
This feature is a bigger file and may take a couple moments to load.
Healthy Meal Planner
What better way to learn about a balance meal then having to actually create one! Our meal planner tool is based on the USDA eating guidelines. The parent enters the child’s age, gender and activity level. The meal planner will provide the parent with the calories and servings per food group that the child needs to eat a balanced meal. As parents select food items and amounts, the calories and food group servings are automatically entered for them.
The child will have fun playing our “Build a Meal” game where he/she will enter a virtual kitchen, school cafeteria and grocery store as they create three meals and 2 snacks based on their specific requirements (age, gender and activity level). This game has audio prompts throughout the game as well as a talking “HELP” feature. As children choose their food items, information about their food selections are automatically filled in for them.
BMI Calculator
We have a BMI calculator that will tell the parent what the BMI score, child percentile, and what category their child falls into, (underweight, normal, at-risk, overweight).
The children have a very special BMI calculator, Katlin’s Magical Messages. They enter in their age, gender, height and weight, and will be given a positive message about healthy eating and being active. These messages are different depending on what score the child would have received. Children never see a score or category. We keep it positive and the goal is to encourage them to eat healthier and be active. These messages were written by a dietitian.
Increasing Parent Involvement in Nutrition Education
Handouts for students and parents- printable family health and nutrition tips-updated with new healthy tips each month. Daily Health and Nutrition Tips - Monthly Calendar
Every month we have a new article to help parents' role model and promote healthy eating and being active every day. Our kids’ Explorers’ page has a new story and activities every month that matches the parents’ theme of the month.
- ✰ Don’t forget to check out our Nutrition Lesson Plans and Free Printable Worksheets
- ✰ Post our FREE Healthy Widgets for classroom websites
