Course 3

Course 3


Activity 1

Eating health: Healthy and unhealthy plates of food

Duration of activity: 15-20 minutes

What do you need?

  • Magazines
  • scissors
  • 2 Paper plates or circular paper cut out (to represent a plate)
  • Glue 

What to do:

  1. Have your child look for and cut out pictures of different food from the magazines. *(Parent to assist with cutting only if necessary)
  2. Talk to your child about health and unhealthy food types.
  3. Also discuss why we need to eat and drink healthy food and drinks.
  4. Explain to your child that he/she will be making a healthy plate by pasting all the healthy foods onto a paper plate using the glue.
  5. Ask your child what their favourite healthy food is.
  6. Do the same with the unhealthy food types. Assist your child if he/she is uncertain about certain foods.

Activity 2

Fruit salad

Duration: 10-15 minutes

What we need?

  • Any fruit to your availabilty 
  • Plastic knife
  • Cutting board
  • Bowl 
  • Yogurt ( optional)

What to do:

  1. Explain to your child that he/she will be making a healthy fruit salad.
  2. Firstly, ask your child to wash his/her hands using soap and water, before handling the food. (Tal about this important step and why it is necessary)
  3. Assist your child with washing and drying the fruit. (Again discuss the importance of doing this for hygeine purposes)
  4. Next assist your child by cutting fruit and placing in a bowl *(Parent to peel fruit that need peeling and deseeding, beforehand, where necessary)
  5. Finally have your child add yogurt if it is available and preferred.
  6. Allow your child to enjoy their fruit salad as a heathly, nutritious snack. 

*Some of the benefits of cooking with children include:

  • Increases Language Development
  • Enhances Fine Motor Skills
  • Increases Math Ability
  • Introduces children to Scientific Concepts
  • Increases Focus and Attention
  • Teaches Life Skills

Activity 3

Physical activity – Frog jump

Duration: 5 – 10 minutes

What you need?

  • An open space

What to do:

  1. Explain to your child that to be healthy, he/she must do daily bodily exercises.
  2. Now introduce the frog jump to your child and demonstrate.
  3. Start in the squat position (see image shown), feet a little wider than shoulder-width apart.
  4. Put your hands between your legs, like a frog.
  5. Jump upward, and softly land back to the frog position.

Click here for a short video on how to do frog jumps: