rank ADVENTURES
Tiger bites
Learn About the Adventure
Current requirements can be seen HERE as well as found in your rank manual - along with great ideas for completion. We guide you through the completion of the requirements in bold below.
Complete Requirements 1 and 2 plus at least two others.
With your parent, guardian, other caring adult, or den, find out about good food choices and not-so-good choices. Identify three foods that you think would be good choices and three foods that would not be good choices.
Explain the importance of hand washing before a meal and clean-up after a meal. Then show how you would do each.
Show that you know the difference between a fruit and a vegetable. Eat one of each.
With your parent, guardian, or other caring adult, pick a job to help your family at mealtime. Do it for at least four meals.
Talk with your parent, guardian, or other caring adult about what foods you can eat with your fingers. Practice your manners when eating them.
With your parent, guardian, or other caring adult, plan and make a good snack choice or other nutritious food to share with your den.
Office/ School Supplies
☐ Scissors
☐ Glue (Glue Dots would work well for this)
☐ Pencil
Printables
☐ Good VS. Not-So-Good Food Choices Printable
☐ Fruit and Veggie I Spy Printable
Misc. Supplies
☐ 12 clothespins
#1 | Choices
Use the Good VS. Not-So-Good Food Choices printable, clothespins, scissors, and glue.
Cut out the large circle and food squares.
Glue the food squares on to the front of a clothespin.
Discuss and determine if the food is a good choice or a not-so-good choice then clip to the correct side of the circle.
#2 | Hand Washing and Cleaning Up
Activity #1: Clean Up! Clean Up!
Help out during a meal at home. Make sure you:
☐ Wash your hands before you help prepare food and/ or sit down to eat, rubbing with soap for at least 20 seconds.
☐ Help clean up after the meal. Why should we not leave food out and clean surfaces that food touched?
Activity #2: Just for Fun watch these! Ewwwwww!
#3 | Fruit or Veggie?
What is the difference?
It all comes down to flowers! On fruit plants the fruit comes from a flower grown from a seed. Fruits will have seeds inside of them. In the kitchen we usually think of fruits as more sweet than veggies.
Vegetables usually are part of the plant - like how potatoes and carrots are the roots! There are some differences between plant science (botany) and kitchen use. Pumpkins, tomatoes, and pepper are all formed from a flower but in the kitchen we usually consider them vegetables because they are considered savory - foods that are spicy or salty without being sweet.
Activity: Fruit and Veggie I Spy
Use the Fruit and Veggie I Spy printable and find all the fruits and veggies - how many of each are there?
Total Fruit = 45* Total Vegetables = 22
*Did you count the tomatoes as fruits?
#5 | Finger Food
Having good table manners shows respect and courtesy for yourself, the chef, and the people you are eating with. Sometimes you encounter foods that you have to eat with your hands - like pizza and carrot sticks!
How do you do that politely?!
Here’s a song to help you learn the rules:
The Finger Food Manners Jam
(To the tune of ‘If You Are Happy and You Know It”’)
If you want to touch food wash your hands. (pretend to scrub hands)
If you want to touch food wash your hands.
When we’re eating with our hands, manners it demands! So,...
If you want to touch food wash your hands.
If eating from a tray use a spoon. (pretend to scoop)
If eating from a tray use a spoon.
When we’re eating with our hands, manners it demands! So,...
If eating from a tray use a spoon.
Crumbs should fall on your plate. (wiggle your fingers like sprinkles falling)
Crumbs should fall on your plate.
When we’re eating with our hands, manners it demands! So,...
Crumbs should fall on your plate.
If you don’t like double dipping say, “Ew!” (motion dipping a chip)
If you don’t like double dipping say, “Ew!”
When we’re eating with our hands, manners it demands! So,...
If you don’t like double dipping say, “Ew!”
If you love finger food nod your head!
If you love finger food nod your head!
When we’re eating with our hands, manners it demands! So,...
If you love finger food nod your head!
#6 | Create Your Own Snack
Using what you’ve learned, come up with a healthy snack to make at home. Here are a few recipes to try:
DIY Trail Mix
Mix together your favorite healthy snacks. Some fun options to include are:
☐ popcorn ☐ dried fruit ☐ almonds ☐ cereal
☐ coconut flakes ☐ pretzels
Frozen Banana Swirl
Ingredients: ☐ 1-2 Frozen Bananas, sliced into 1” chunks ☐ 1-2 Tbsp. milk or water
Directions: Put the frozen banana slices in a blender and blend until smooth. Add a little liquid if your blender needs it. Serve & enjoy immediately!
Baked Apple Chips
Ingredients:
☐ 2 apples, sliced into 1” chunks ☐ ground cinnamon
Directions: Remove the apple cores. Have an adult thinly slice the apples.
Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper and lay the slices in one layer. Sprinkle with cinnamon.
Bake at 275 degree Fahrenheit for one hour. Flip them over and cook in 30 minute increments until they look perfectly crispy!
