Info cards for parents

Tip cards forABCPLAY WITH ME

parents

Think about colourChildren love colour and are drawn to different bright and unusual shapes. So why not play around with the use of colour to encourage them to eat the ‘red’ or ‘yellow’ shape.

Play along with them and make it into a game. This way they are having fun and being

healthy. The result is that the good nutrition is going into their tummies, helping them grow stronger and learn easier. The right nutrition helps the brain engage and focus, meaning your child can learn new things all day long without difficulty.Think about the use of colour and make it exciting to eat.

Eat a piece = 1 sticker reward

Play with it!Children love story time so why not make a story or scene out of fruit and vegetables to ecourage them to use their own powerful imagination.

You are giving them control through what they visualise but you are in control yourself as they are playing with and eating exactly what you want them to.

Use a different set every time as this gives the ability to relate it to what they are into, like Disney films.

Letting them play with their food allows them to gain a much better understanding as they are likely to put it to their mouth to taste it.


Make it fun!Relate it to what they enjoy playing with. Making it look like a toy will grab their attention as it’s a ‘new’ toy but you can also eat it! Weird right? Think about how it comes across to your child... Fascinating? Yes. Using a variety of different colours, fruit and vegetables

can really make the food come alive. Think about personalising the food, naming it and giving it a voice. This will make your child laugh and have a slight feeling towards the food. Don’t you remember doing this when you were a young child?Make it fun!


Get them involved

Let them help you make the exciting food and characters. This will get them thinking creatively and they will want to show you what they have made. Praise them and then ask them to eat the eye, leg, head and so on. This increases the amount of interaction between parent

and child as well as teaching them along the way. Their own unique characters may surprise you, children are extremely creative and you need to allow them to play and experiment to understand new food. One piece of fruit or veg eaten is a sticker to add to their collection.


ABCPLAY WITH ME

Why not try the App

The ABC play with me app is designed to allow children and parents to interact together and learn from this useful tool. There are stages from A-Z which you must pass in order to enter the prize draw to be in with a chance of winning an Xbox kinect. This is an active games console which will help your child play, have fun but also burn off their intake from food to help maintain a healthy weight.

ABCPLAY WITH ME

Simply download this exciting application from the app store: (www.apple.com/ipad/from-the-app-store) to start colouring in and answering questions.

Work with your child and use your child’s sticker book to reference from so you get the correct answers to pass each stage. When you reach the end, you will fill in information to enter the Kinect competition.

What colour should I be?

CStage

Cassy Carrot

BStage

AStage

What colour should I be? What colour should I be?

a) Skinb) Toesc) Hearing

I am good for your...


X


Berty Blueberry

Anna the Apple

DStage

Derrick Date

You Silly Salad... That’s out of the line!



XTry again you fruitcake!

a) Eyesb) Nosec) Mouth

I contain vitamin A which is good for your...?

You loopy lemon!

Xa) Eyesb) Nosec) Mouth






Not quite you plum!

X


X


X


Try again you nar-na!

I think not you crazy cabbage!


CStage

Cassy Carrot

BStage

AStage





X


Berty Blueberry

Anna the Apple

DStage

Derrick Date

You Silly Salad... That’s out of the line!



XTry again you fruitcake!



You loopy lemon!







Not quite you plum!

X


X


X


Try again you nar-na!

I think not you crazy cabbage!

There are some 26 stages, some that need to be coloured in according to the fruit or vegtable and others that need to be answered correctly. Each stage passed means a steady progression to the next letter.With only five life lines, you need to be careful. There is a lot of useful information and facts within the app which might suprise you too, so give it a go, see how much you know about nutrition.

If you colour outside the lines you will get a cheeky message telling you not to do this as it will damage one life line gradually.

Answering a question wrong is an instant life lost and again, you will receive a little message telling you that you’re a ‘silly salad’ and so on.

Here’s how to play

CStage

Cassy Carrot



You loopy lemon!





Not quite you plum!

X

Have Fun!

Simple but effective

Documents

Info cards for parents