Health Promotion Board’s Annual Eye Care Week
will be from 23rd March 2015.
SUGGESTED EYE CARE WEEK ACTIVITIES
FOR PRE-SCHOOLS
For this year’s Eye Care Week, we would like to encourage all children to practise good eye
care habits and spend more time outdoors.
Here are some ideas for indoor and outdoor activities that promote good eye care
practices and bring across the importance of taking care of our eyes.
Teachers will reinforce the good eye care habits message after each activities. Feel free
to add in some of your own ideas as well !
A. Role of our eyes
• Colouring Scott-See-Well
B. Good Eye Care habits
• Tic-Tac-Toe
C. Go Outdoors and Play!
• Colour Crocodile
• Traffic Light Walk & Jog
• Alphabet Ball
• In and Out
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D. Take home activity with parents
Find a Rainbow
A. Role of our eyes
Colouring Scott-See-Well
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6.
Make copies of the colouring sheet (refer to Annex A) for
the children.
Get the children to pair up.
One child of each pair will be blindfolded.
The other child of the pair will have to guide the
blindfolded child in colouring the picture using colour
pencils/crayons.
When the blindfolded child is done colouring, remove their
blindfolds and get them to look at their work.
Explain to them the important role our eyes play.
Annex A
Scott-See-Well
B. Good Eye Care Habits
Tic-Tac-Toe
1.
Split the children into two teams. One team will be crosses X,
another team will be circles O
2. The teacher will hold out a placard showing an action. The teams
will take turns to answer. The children in the answering team will
have to decide whether the action is a good or bad habit. If the
team answers correctly, the team will get to put a cross/circle on
the Tic-Tac-Toe Board. If the team answers wrongly, the team
will not be able to place a cross/circle for that turn.
3. The first team to form a line of 3 cross/circles wins.
Resources:
Whiteboard to draw tic-tac-toe, placards (refer to Annex B)
Annex B
Playing tablet for 1hour
without vision breaks
Lying down
while
reading
Skipping
Watching TV
too near
C. Go Outdoors and Play!
Colour Crocodile
The aim of this catching game is to identify objects/area of the require
colour and touch the object/area before the crocodile catches you. The
teacher can start the game by being the crocodile. The crocodile will say a
colour, for instance green.
INDOOR
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The children will have to find objects that have
the colour green on them such as a green
chair, and place their hand on the object.
The crocodile will go around checking and it
will try to catch any child that has not touched
an object of the required colour.
Note: Ensure that there are different coloured
objects in the playing area
OUTDOOR
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The children will have to find areas of the
colour green and stand within the area.
The crocodile will go around checking and it
will try to catch any child that has not entered
an area of the required colour.
Note: Play this at a colourful playground
Once the child is caught, the child becomes the new crocodile and will call
out another colour. If the current crocodile did not manage to catch
anyone, the same crocodile will continue to call out another colour.
Safety note: Children should not be running if it is an indoor activity. If it’s played
outdoor, teacher should set the boundaries.
Traffic Light Walk
1. Take the children out on a walk around the neighbourhood.
Hold onto one piece of red paper, one piece of yellow
paper and one piece of green paper.
2. At the different junctures, hold up the red, yellow or
green paper.
 If the red paper is held up, the children will have to
stop walking.
 If the green paper is held up, the children will have to
start walking.
 If the yellow paper is held up, the children will have to
slow down walking.
Resources: Coloured paper
Note:
For older children such as K2, the children can take turns to be the “traffic marshal” and
hold up different coloured papers.
Centre using the HPB Pre-school Health Ambassador programme can get their Scott-SeeWell or Amber Active to be the “Traffic Marshal”.
Alphabet Ball
1. Get the children to stand in a circle.
2. Take one bouncy ball and toss it to one child. The chid that catches
the ball will have say the letter “A” of the alphabet. The child with
the ball will then throw the ball to another child, where the latter
has to say the next letter of the alphabet when he/she catches the
ball.
3. This continues until the letter “Z” is reached, and whoever catches
the ball at Z will have to lead the group in singing the entire
alphabet song.
Resources: Bouncy Ball
Modification:
If the children are not able to throw or catch the ball, they can roll it
instead.
In and Out
1. Get the children to stand in a circle holding hands, with one child in
the middle of the circle holding a bouncy and soft ball.
2. The child in the middle will have to try dribble and kick the ball out
of the circle, using only her feet.
3. The children forming the circle will have to try to keep the ball in
the circle.
4. When the child in the middle of the circle succeeds in getting the
ball out of the circle, he/she can pick up next child to go into the
middle of the circle, while he/she takes the latter’s place as part of
the circle.
Resources: Bouncy ball
D. Take home activity with
parents
Find a Rainbow
Bring your child to the park or playground and embark on a
mission to find seven objects, one for each colour of the
rainbow. This can include flowers, trees, slides etc. Then help
them to take a photo of these objects, or alternatively ask your
child to draw these objects in the activity sheet.
(refer to Annex C)
Annex C
Activity Sheet: Find A Rainbow
Let’s keep myopia away,
go outdoors and play!