Paint Your Plate
WITH VEGETABLES AND FRUIT
WITH VEGETABLES AND FRUIT
By learning to love veggies and fruit at a young age, kids will learn a life-long habit that can help lower their risk of developing heart disease, high blood pressure and some cancers later in life. To earn this badge, find ways to promote, highlight and/or serve vegetables and fruit at school, and help students, teachers, parents and others paint their plates with yummy, veggies and fruit every day!
Ask students how to encourage their friends, family and teachers to eat more vegetables and fruit. What kinds of activities could they run at school?
Talk to others about how great it would be to have more vegetables and fruit at school using the Helpful Links and Tools for this badge. Could more vegetables and fruit be included with catered lunches, celebrations and events? Is anything standing in the way of this?
Vegetables and fruit are amazing! They pack a lot of nutrition, taste, and interest to meals and snacks and can be easy to prepare and very affordable. Help show everyone at school how easy it is to incorporate fruits and veggies into every meal.
Now that you have taken steps to help students, teachers, parents or others paint their plates with yummy, veggies and fruit, it’s time to have some fun! Choose at least one of the activities below to get everyone excited, or come up with your own creative idea(s).