Eat the Colors

As part of our Health & Wellness initiatives for McCall Elementary, we want to provide education, resources, and support for maintaining a healthy lifestyle. One area we hope to improve upon this year is in Nutrition.

The PE & Fitness coaches teach a concept called “Eating the Colors of the Rainbow.” As a way to encourage students to eat and try new fruits and vegetables, the students have learned that the color of what they eat can be tied with a part of their body or a body system. To make things easy to remember, the colors work like this:

RED is for my heart.

ORANGE is for my eyes.

YELLOW is for my skin and insides.

GREEN is for my teeth and bones.

PURPLE is for my brain.

A whole rainbow of colors can be a great way to encourage your student to make healthy choices and to even ask to be served colors that may often be excluded throughout the week.