Healthy Choices Challenge- Creating Healthy Habits

The perfect resource for a health unit! This resource combines at home challenges and in class activities to help students focus on creating healthy habits. This resource targets healthy habits such as:

Drinking Water, Cutting Back on Sugar, Eating Fruits & Vegetables, Being Active/ Daily Physical Activity, Cutting Down on Screen Time, and Cooking at Home/ Knowing What You Put In Your Body!

There is a Teacher How To Page to follow, Challenge Papers & Slips to send home, writing prompts to match the challenges, and activities to help students practice their healthy habits! There is also a goal tracking sheet to track goals in your classroom! Scroll down to see everything included!

**This resource has been created for grades Pre K-6th. All writing prompts come with 4 different versions of lines to address each grade level's needs. The additional activities at the end of the resource are geared toward lower grades, but can be adapted to upper as well!

Included In This (52 page!) Resource:

• Day by Day Teacher Directions for a week long Healthy Choice Challenge
• Healthy Choices Challenge Page - To Send Home!
• Healthy Choices Challenge Slips - To Send Home!
• Journal Prompts: 3 for each Challenge Day Theme
• Healthy Habits Brain Breaks
• Personalized Giada De Laurentiis ( Food Network Chef) Recipe for Cooking with your Family
• 2 Rainbow Eating Activities
  • Cut, Sort, Paste
  • Draw & Label

• Roll & Exercise Activity
• Food Critic Activity (2 versions)
• “The Only Way I Will Be Me, Is If I Stay Healthy”- Future Me Writing Page
  • Lower Grades Version
  • Upper Grades Version

• “ I Pledge to Make Healthy Choices” Writing Page
  • Lower Grades Version
  • Upper Grades Version

• Writing Prompts for Each Challenge ( 4 versions of lines/ different sized drawing area for each)
  • What does it mean to make healthy choices? (4 versions)
  • Why is it important to drink water? (4 versions)
  • Which new fruit or vegetable did you try last night, and what was your opinion of it? (4 versions)
  • Why is it important to exercise? (4 versions)
  • What is your favorite thing to do with your family? (4 versions)
  • If you could learn to cook anything, what would it be and why? (4 versions)

• Healthy Habit Goal Tracking- Pick a habit & keep track of progress
• Healthy Choices Sorting
• Healthy Meal- I can make a healthy meal. Draw & Write (2 Versions)
• Healthy Lunch- I can pack a healthy lunch. Draw & Write (2 Versions)

This resource includes some of the same activities as my Red Ribbon Week Revamp resource, but leaves out the Red Ribbon Week Theme and focuses on Health! Click Here to view the Red Ribbon Week Revamp