{"id":37361,"date":"2018-04-18T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging2.threadalaska.org\/thread-blog\/tasty-tuesday-1-2\/"},"modified":"2023-06-13T13:23:22","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T21:23:22","slug":"tasty-tuesday-1-2","status":"publish","type":"thread-blog","link":"https:\/\/www.threadalaska.org\/thread-blog\/tasty-tuesday-1-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tasty Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"blog_content\">\n<p>\n\tIt\u2019s the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.naeyc.org\/events\/woyc\/overview\">Week of the Young Child<\/a> (WOYC), and today is Tasty Tuesday. Yum! The focus today is on healthy habits, such as choosing nutritious food and staying physically active. Childhood obesity has a serious impact on both physical and emotional health, so it\u2019s important to establish healthy habits at an early age.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tasty Tuesday during Week of the Young Child\" src=\"https:\/\/threadsandbox2.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/square-tasty-tuesday1.jpg\" style=\"width: 300px;height: 303px;margin-top: 3px;margin-bottom: 3px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n\tCooking together is also a great learning experience for young children. Talk about the sense of taste when you try new foods. Develop your child\u2019s motor skills by having him stir or pour. Teach math concepts like volume, addition, and subtraction while measuring ingredients. Introduce scientific concepts like chemical reactions while you are baking. There are so many learning opportunities!<\/p>\n<p>\n\tTry adding a little fun to snack time by cutting a variety of fruit into different shapes and arranging the pieces to create art. <a href=\"https:\/\/alphamom.com\/family-fun\/crafts\/craft-and-snack-easy-fruit-art\/\">Check out how one family did it with blueberries, strawberries, bananas, and melon<\/a>, then head over to NAEYC.org for more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.naeyc.org\/events\/woyc\/resources\">Week of the Young Child Resources<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/alphamom.com\/family-fun\/crafts\/craft-and-snack-easy-fruit-art\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/threadsandbox2.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/fruit-art1.jpg\" style=\"height: 225px;width: 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t<strong>What creative snack did you make with your family or early childhood classroom? Share it with us on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/threadalaska.org\">Facebook<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/threadalaska\">Twitter<\/a> using the hashtag #woyc18.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","news_tags":[],"event_category":[],"news_categories":[],"class_list":["post-37361","thread-blog","type-thread-blog","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tasty Tuesday - Thread<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.threadalaska.org\/thread-blog\/tasty-tuesday-1-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tasty Tuesday - Thread\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It\u2019s the Week of the Young Child (WOYC), and today is Tasty Tuesday. 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