Ready for a sweet, healthy treat? Get into the kitchen and create a nutritious, healthy snack. Smoothies blend fruits and vegetables for vitamins with yogurt or milk for protein and calcium.
What You Need:
- Blender
- 1 cup strawberries
- 1 banana
- 1 cup Greek yogurt
- 1 cup ice
- 1/2 cup of spinach (optional and will turn it green)
- Squeeze of honey
What You Do:
- Measure out your ingredients.
- Add all ingredients to blender and blend until smooth. Add more ice if needed.
- Pour and serve.
Words to Use:
- Fruit: something that grows on a plant, tree, or bush, can be eaten as a food, contains seeds or a stone, and is usually sweet.
- Leaf: One of the flat green parts of a plant that are joined to its stem or branches.
- Seed: A small hard object produced by plants, from which a new plant of the same kind grows.
- Nutritious: Food that is nutritious is full of the natural substances that your body needs to stay healthy or to grow properly.
What to talk about:
- Which ingredients are plants? How can you tell?
- Take a close look at the strawberries. Can you find the seeds?
- Where does honey come from?
- How does the blender turn the ingredients into a yummy smoothie?
Change It Up:
- What other fruits and vegetables could you try in a smoothie? Be a creative chef and create your own recipe.
- Try adding nut butter or sun butter for extra protein.
- Make a smoothie popsicle! Pour a smoothie into a popsicle mold. If you don’t have one, just use a cup and spoon.
Learning Connections
- Collaboration
- Curiosity
- STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math)
- Nature Exploration
- Using Tools
Curriculum Connections:
NC Standard Course of Study
- Health: K.NPA.1, K.NPA.2, 1.NPA.1, 1.NPA.2, 2.NPA.1.1, 2.NPA.1.2, 2.NPA.2, 3.NPA.1.1, 3.NPA.1.2, 3.NPA.2.1, 3.NPA.2.2, 3.NPA.2.3, 4.NPA.1, 4.NPA.2
- Math: NC.K.MD.1, NC.3.MD.2, NC.4.MD.1, 5.NPA.1.1
- Science: EX.K.L.1