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To promote healthy eating habits, the author engages children in draw-and-talk or draw-and-write activities and provides teachers with essential instructional resources.
Introductory Activities
Introductory Activities
The whole idea of ‘health’ and ‘being healthy’ is difficult for young children to understand. Many will equate it to being well or whole, to being not ill or to being strong. We need help children to try to understand what the words ‘health’ and ‘a healthy lifestyle’ mean and that there are many healthy lifestyles for different people.
One approach is to ask the children to draw a healthy person and to draw the things they need to help to live a healthy lifestyle. Talking together about what they have drawn will help children to begin to understand the concept of health. Healthy eating is only one part of a healthy lifestyle and in this introduction we can help children to understand ...
