Classroom Activities
Moo-mory
2-4 Players
Objective:
Match healthy snack pairs and put them into a brown paper bag.
Materials Needed:
- Brown paper bags - 1 per player
- Set of Miss Moo cards
- Download a set of Pyramid Café® Food Cards for each food group.
- Download a Miss Moo card.
- Mount cards on construction paper or card stock.
- Cut cards apart.
- Optional - Distribute and have each student color a card; collect to form your set of "Miss Moo" cards.
Method:
- Arrange the cards in a grid on the floor.
- The first person chooses a card and turns it over for all to see. Leaving the first card turned over, the player chooses another card and turns it over for all to see. Arrange the cards face down in a grid pattern on the floor.
- If the cards match, the player must decide if the pair is a healthy snack or an unhealthy snack. If the snack is healthy, the pair is placed in the brown paper bag. If the snack is unhealthy, the pair is placed outside the brown paper bag.
- If the cards do not match, the player turns both cards face down and the player to the right continues.
- The player continues to turn cards until no matches are made.
- Continue playing until no cards remain.
- The player with the most pairs is the winner.
- Ask winner to take food cards out of the bag and explain what makes these snacks healthy.
DINE Activities provided by Mid-Atlantic Dairy Association, 2004
Created by Fifth-grade students at Pelham Elementary School, Pelham, New Hampshire, 2004
Courtesy of New England Dairy Council, 2004