High Yield Activity: Fruit Salad Toss Up

Are you looking for a fun way to liven up your Healthy Habits or TRAIL programs? This is a fun game to play with the kiddos to help them become more familiar with different fruits. As a bonus, let the kids make their own fruit salads by having a variety of fruits for them to select from to mix into their own salads.

Target Area: Program room with tables and chairs

Objective: Members learn about healthy snack options

Target Age Group: Ages 6-9

Time to Complete: one 45 minute rotation

Skills Taught: Healthy Lifestyles

Materials Needed: none for the game, a variety of prewashed bite sized fruits, bowls, and spoons for snack

Instructions:

Have the group sit chairs in a circle. Once person stands in the middle of the circle and does not have a chair. All players are assigned fruit names: apple, orange, pear, plum (use names of fruits you have for the fruit salad if you're doing the snack option with the activity). The middle person calls out one or more fruit names. The called fruits must change chairs. The middle player tries to sit in an empty chair before the fruits do. The middle person may also call "Fruit salad toss up" for which all players must change chairs. The player left without a chair becomes the middle person. Repeat the game as time allows.