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This edition…
Book Nook – Avocado Baby p1 Festive Food! p2 Active Advent Countdown p2 Crunch Time p3 Kids in the Kitchen – Frozen Yoghurt Bites p3 Free Play Sessions and Physical Activity p3 Mini Moves FMS Games – CATCHING p4
Northern NSW
Spring 2018
What’s Coming Up?
Walktober – Move More & Sit Less throughout October. You
may wish to download an app or purchase some pedometers and encourage kids at your service to explore their steps.
Nude Food Day (Oct) – pick a week and get families to pack
Nude lunchboxes. If it is a hit trial a whole month of Nude November https://www.nudefoodday.com.au/
Children’s Week 19/10-28/10 – national celebration of
children’s rights, talents and citizenship http://www.childrensweek.org.au/
National Nutrition Week (14/10-20/10) – This years’
theme is “Try for 5” so encourage your families to eat more veg. http://www.nutritionaustralia.org/national/national-nutrition-week
National Water Week (21/10-27/10) – This year's theme is
‘Water for me, Water for all’. It encourages people to consider how we use water and how we can protect it for the future. http://www.awa.asn.au/AWA_MBRR/About_AWA/National_Water_Week.aspx
Book Nook – Avocado Baby This book is perfect for those fussy eaters! It is a great way to encourage children at your service to try new foods.
Introducing the book: Talk about the picture on the double end page – what are the avocado babies climbing on? What are they doing? You can make a list together.
Discussing the book: Is there anything unusual about this baby? Have children seen / tasted avocado before? What are some other foods avocado baby could try?
What is your power food? Help children fill in the blanks: My power food is _______. It helps me to _______! Can you build a story featuring your new superhero?
Plant an avocado seed: prepare an avocado seed for germination, place it on the windowsill and watch it grow. Keep a diary over 6 weeks. Children can watch, draw, measure and describe its progress.
Eat an avocado: talk about how it looks, feels, tastes and smells.
Remember: research suggests using words like yummy and tasty to describe new foods is the best way to encourage kids to try and enjoy new foods. If you tell kids food is ‘good’ for them they will eat less!
10 YEARS OF MUNCH & MOVE
2018 marks 10 years of
Munch & Move across NSW!
We appreciate your ongoing
commitment to making kids
in Northern NSW healthier.
Have Your Say…
Across the last decade many workshops have been run,
resources distributed and activities undertaken. Let us
know if there has been anything you have found
particularly useful or if you have any new ideas to promote
healthy “munching & moving” to kids within your
community. Let your local Munch & Move support officer
know (contact details at the end of this newsletter).
We look forward to hearing from you!
Festive Food! Use the Christmas period to introduce children to Festive Foods.
You may explore what foods people in other countries eat at
Christmas time, make your own Christmas creations or take
advantage of children’s interest in everything festive.
Green and Red are traditionally Christmas colours, so maybe you
can try making a green and red veggie platter…. think peas,
beans, snow peas, broccoli, lettuce, cucumber, tomatoes,
capsicum and radish to get you started. Or use Santa’s reindeers
love of carrots to start a “Carrot Revolution” at your service.
Let us know how you plan to celebrate!
Active Advent Countdown – the 12 days of Christmas
Advent calendars are usually full of chocolate. We challenge you to work with the kids at your service to develop and “Active Advent Calendar” to count down the weeks until Christmas. Get the children to come up with 12 different activities or exercises they can do and use the 12 days of Christmas song to put them together… For example… “On the first day of Christmas Cubby Kids did one Spiderman crawl” Then the following week… “On the second day of Christmas Cubby Kids did 2 kangaroo jumps and one Spiderman crawl” Encourage families to get involved in this active advent countdown! Take pictures as you go to post on social media, add to daily diaries, or put into a little book for a great Christmas keepsake for your families.
Increasing Free Play Sessions
Outdoor free play is a cornerstone of many Early Learning Service timetables and allows children an opportunity to be active, explore and problem solve together.
Recent research suggests that scheduling multiple shorter sessions of outdoor free play leads to children undertaking more moderate-vigorous (huff and puff) physical activity when compared to one large block of outdoor free play. This is thought to be because children tend to be more physically active and energetic for the first 15 minutes of a free play session, so scheduling multiple, short bouts of free play takes advantage of this.
Crunch Time!
The next few weeks are a great time to reintroduce Crunch Time to your service. It supports children’s transition to school, mimicking the Crunch & Sip program that they will be involved in there.
It also promotes vegetable consumption, with our pilot program last year finding after 8 weeks of Crunch Time:
- An increase in vegetables in the lunchbox - Increased willingness to try vegetables - An increase in kids reporting they liked
vegetables
How you implement Crunch Time is up to your service, it is simply a time of day kids are encouraged to snack on vegetables. For more information, check out the manual (link found below), or contact your local support officer. https://nnswlhd.health.nsw.gov.au/health-promotion/files/2018/01/MM-Crunch-Time-Implementation-Manual_final.pdf
Kids in the Kitchen: Frozen Yoghurt Bites
These Yoghurt Bites are the perfect summer idea to cook with children at your service. They are a refreshing, cooling dessert the kids can help make in the morning and then sample before home time.
Ingredients: (serves 6 or more if mini muffin tins used) 1/4 cup of granola or almond meal 1 tablespoon honey 1 tablespoon softened margarine 3/4 cup vanilla low fat yoghurt 1 cup frozen / fresh chopped fruit 6 cup muffin tin (or 12 cup mini tin) and liners
Method:
1. Line muffin tins with cases or baking paper. 2. Stir together granola (or almond meal), margarine and
honey. 3. Spoon a small amount into the bottom of each muffin
cup and press down firmly. 4. Spoon 2 tablespoons Yoghurt on top of each granola
base. 5. Top with chopped fruit. 6. Freeze until firm (4-6 hours).
To serve, remove from the muffin tin and enjoy!
Remember to get in contact if your service ever needs any support with implementing Munch & Move
Contacting your local support officer Area Support Officer Phone Email
Clarence Valley Kate Collins 66400154 [email protected]
Ballina/Byron Maxine Molyneux 66399142 [email protected]
Richmond Valley
Martina Pattinson Elsa Mangan Corinne Martin
66207668 6621 1213 66207447
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
Tweed Valley Liz Patterson Daniel Ashton
6674 9515 6674 9506
[email protected] [email protected]
Physical Activity & FMS Games (CATCHING)
Tick-Tock Beat the CLOCK
Tick-tock, catch the ball and beat the clock…
1. Children stand in a circle like a clock
2. Choose one child to be the tick-tock and stand in the middle
holding a ball
3. The tick-tock throws the ball to someone in the circle (clock)
4. The children then throw and catch the ball around the circle, one
by one singing the tick-tock song…
Tick-tock, tick-tock, (child’s name) can you beat the clock?
Tick-tock, tick-tock, (child’s name) can you beat the clock?
5. The tick-tock then runs around the outside of the circle trying to
beat the clock (ball), stopping when they reach the child who
started with the ball
Cricket Catch It’s a big cricket match, how many catches can you make?
1. Tell the children that they are participating in a big cricket match.
Ask them to form pairs.
2. Allocate one child as the catcher and the other the passer.
3. The passer of each pair aims and throws the ball to their catcher
calling “how’s that” each time they catch it.
4. Pairs keep count of how many times they catch it out of ten throws.
Pairs then swap roles.
This game is from the Northern Sydney Local Health District Mini Moves Activity Pack. For more games focusing on
Fundamental Movement Skills find your service’s Frankie and Friends Resource.