How to Explain Vitamins to Kids

The process of explaining vitamins to kids involves having them understand in a general sense the concept of what vitamins are, how they help the body to maintain an optimal level of health and why our bodies need these nutrients. Simple and straightforward language is best for articulating what vitamins are, along with keeping these explanations relatively short in length.

Things You'll Need

• Visual aids
• Physical examples

Instructions

Visual aids

1. Provide visual aids such as pictures, articles, color charts and basic video presentations to help you explain vitamins to kids. "Earl Mindell's Vitamin Bible for Your Kids" can help provide simple information and explanations.

2. Utilize physical examples to provide a conceptual basis for explaining vitamins, such as various fruits, vegetables and supplements such as tablets that are manufactured by vitamin companies.

3. Allow kids to take part in gaining knowledge about vitamins by letting them participate in activities that further their understanding. This includes grocery shopping, searching out recipes that have foods with substantial vitamins in them and researching books and the Internet to give them further explanations about how beneficial vitamins are to the human body.

References

• "Earl Mindell's Vitamin Bible for Your Kids"; Earl Mindell; 1982