Challenge
Encourage young people to:
– Replace an unhealthy meal with one that is lower in sugar, fat and salt
– Eat more portions of vegetables
– Drink fewer fizzy drinks, replacing these with water or sugar free options.
Ideas
One
Scanning bar codes on foods so kids can keep up do track with how much intake on sugar, fat and salt they are taking. This idea generates from the app called ‘My Fitness Pall’, whereby you can keep track of your food, calorie intake, exercise and health through scanning the codes of foods.
Two
Snakes and Ladders themed chart. The idea behind this is to get kids involved with eating healthy foods and not forcing it upon them. The idea is simple and fun, not too complicated to put children off taking part. Everyone loves a challenge ey?
How will it work?
There will be a snakes and ladders board, which you can download from the website and print yourself, or you can request one to be send. Each child will have a token which can be personalised online with their face on. The aim of the game is for the first child to climb to the top of the board, with the incentive of winning a prize at the end which the parents will provide.
The traditional way of playing Snakes and Ladders is to roll the dice and climb the amount of numbers which have been presented. In this version, each type of food you eat will be a number. For example, as the recommended daily consumption of fruit and vegetables is meant to be 5 a day, each fruit and veg you eat will class as one point and a big glass of water will be the final point to tally up to 6. Each child will be able to earn a maximum of 6 point a day. So the more fruit and veg you eat, the more you will be able to climb to the top of the board! For each bad food you eat daily, for example foods with high fat and sugar, you will be deducted a mark and you will have to slide your way back down!
GAMES ON!