Make a healthy food
heart collage to take
home.
Use our Toi Te Kupu
resource to learn the
names of different fruit
and vegetables in Te Reo
Design a set of table
placemats using pictures
of your favourite healthy
foods and photos of each
child. Laminate them if
you can.
As a group, make up a
song or poem about your
favourite food or sport.
Share it with your
whānau.
Create a healthy food
role-play and perform it
for whānau
Visit a local garden
centre. See how fruit and
vegetables start as seeds
and grow into plants.
Learn to say the names
of foods and sports in
different languages. Try
Te Reo, Samoan, Tongan,
Japanese, Mandarin,
French, Italian
Grow vegetable
seedlings in yogurt
pottles or egg containers.
Give them to whānau at
the end of your Heart
Day.
Play ‘Pin the heart’ on the
person game. Trace the
outline of a child on a
large piece of paper and
stick to the wall. Ask the
children to pin the heart
in the correct place on
the body.
Get Jumping! Use a long
skipping rope to make a
wriggly snake on the
ground. Jump with one
foot, two feet, in pairs!
Count how many times
your heart beats each
minute, both before and
after different exercises..
Have relay races: egg and
spoon, three-legged race,
wheelbarrow race,
running race.
Fill 10 plastic bottles with
water and use for ten pin
bowling. Put food
colouring in the water to
brighten up the game.
Rice paper wraps
Berry smoothies
Tuna and tomato pizza
Falafel
Toastie egg pots
Fruit iceblocks
Put a picnic together. Ask
children which items they
need to include in the
picnic basket. Hold the
picnic inside if the
weather is poor.
Run a fun healthy
lunchbox day. Everyone
can make sandwiches
and other healthy items
to put in their lunchbox.
Hold a taste-testing
competition. Ask children
to close their eyes and
then give them a variety
of foods to eat. Can they
guess what the food is?
Ask them to explain
texture, taste, and smell.
Organise a summer
festival day and invite
whānau. Plant seedlings,
dance to music outside,
cook and eat food from
your garden.
Hold a walk-a-thon
around your local
community. Dress up in
red and stand-out.
Create a restaurant.
Make up your menus and
then take turns at being
the chef, waiter and diner.
Hold a sports day or a
Jump Rope for Heart
Jump-a-thon.
Set up a treasure hunt.
Use different ways of
moving to find each clue
e.g. slither like a snake,
waddle like a duck.
Beetroot dip