Title of Bulletin Board: Hungry Hungry Hippos

Category: Nutrition

Suggested Grade Level: All

Materials: Pictures of various food from the MyPlate categories; 4 paper or plastic plates; 4 hippo cutouts; letttering

Description:

Hungry Hungry Hippos What's On Your Plate?

Recreate the board game of Hungry Hungry Hippos but with a twist to teach or reinforce the healthy eating choices and filling up your plate with a variety of foods from the MyPlate categories. With this board game theme set up, the four hippos are trying to fill up their plate from the food scattered in the middle game area, their goal is to add the healthy food choices to their food plate (ball area). The bulletin board is setup with the complete plate at each of the hippos with their healthy choices.

I have also done this bulletin board during the Halloween month using Hungry Hungry Monsters, replacing the hippo with a monster.

Additional Information:

PE/APE class, we took bulletin board to life by playing a game: plastic food in middle, 4 teams of hippos w/4 plates as collection bin. On each plate, hippo team must fill up 1)breakfast
2)lunch
3) dinner
4)snack using food team collected.
Teams can travel sitting on scooter carrying basket w/3 item limit; lie on scooter pushing self out to middle or teammate holding his/her feet moving them into middle w/basket trapping what they can into basket and pulling it back to team. wheelchair or walker: set up table for access at higher level.

1st team to fill all 4 plates following MyPlate guidelines wins.

Teamwork & cooperation: incorporate rules that teams are allowed to trade food items at end to complete their plates.

In Health class: use same cutouts from bulletin board to choose & glue onto paper plate.

Bulletin board-teaching tool. Game-reinforcing tool. Project-assessing tool.