Classroom Activities
Miss Moo
2-4 Players
Objective:
Match healthy snack pairs and end up with Miss Moo.
Materials Needed:
- Brown paper bags - 1 per player
- Set of Miss Moo cards
- Download a set of Pyramid Café® Food Cards for each food group.
- Download a Miss Moo card.
- Mount cards on construction paper or card stock.
- Cut cards apart.
- Optional - Distribute and have each student color a card; collect to form your set of "Miss Moo" cards.
Method:
- Deal one card to each player, continuing around the circle until no cards are left.
- The person to the right of the dealer goes first.
- The player has two choices:
- Put down any food pairs in their hand.
- Choose a card from another player's hand.
- When the player puts down a pair, a healthy snack pair is placed in the bag, while an unhealthy snack pair is placed outside the bag.
- The player continues with his or her turn until there are no more pairs to put down.
- The player seated to the right goes next.
- Continue playing until the person holding Miss Moo is the winner.
- Take food cards out of the bag and review with students what makes these snacks healthy.
DINE Activities provided by Mid-Atlantic Dairy Association, 2004
Created by Fifth-grade students at Pelham Elementary School, Pelham, New Hampshire, 2004
Courtesy of New England Dairy Council, 2004