Nutrition Month Celebration

Every month of July, schools celebrate Nutrition Month. Some do it with Nutrition month costumes, poster and slogan making contests, essay writing contests, parades, declamation pieces and other activities.

In my kids' school, they celebrated last year's Nutrition Month this way (ok, I should have posted this last year). Anyway, here it is.

Each grade level were assigned with a food booth - rice, chicken, fish, pork, fruits, vegetables, beef, fruit juice, healthy snacks, etc.

our Hawaiian rice for my daughter's Rice booth

The booths were decorated and filled with food according to their "assigned food." I just like this idea!

get your fresh fruit juices here

want some fruits for dessert?

brighten your day with a healthy snack

The students got to visit each booth and taste what they want.

bagoong rice, Hawaiian rice or garlic rice

fresh mango juice for me please

The middle and higher grade levels had a cooking demo. While the little ones wore headdresses and stick fruits or veggies in their shirts.

remember - pork is a source of iron and protein

we're ready to cook the fish!

Through this, the students become aware with the importance of having good nutrition like - eating the right amount of food, adding fruits and veggies in their diet, and a lot more.

enjoying our healthy snacks

This 2015, Nutrition Month's theme is "Timbang iwasto sa tamang nutrisyon at ehersisyo!" No idea yet what their school activities would be.

Still, we should always make it a point to give our kids the right nutrition every day, right?

Need a costume for your kids or other activities for Nutrition month? Check out my son's cabbage headdress and my niece's fruit hat to give you some ideas.

Nutrition Month Costume and Activities

As much as possible, I make sure that my kids won't miss any important school activities. After all, it's part of learning. I want them to enjoy their school activities to the fullest.

cabbage and malunggay

For Nutrition Month, my Grade 1 son asked me to prepare a vegetable headdress. Saying, "I want a big cabbage headdress!"

With limited time, my husband made a crown-shaped cardboard base. I drew and cut leaves and pasted it at the back. We bought a cabbage and sitaw (string beans) which we placed on the cardboard base. I just covered it with cling wrap plastic to maintain the fresh look of the cabbage.

I braided sitaw (string beans) to secure the cabbages and complete the look as well.

Glad that my son loved his cabbage headdress!

my son's cabbage headdress and my niece's fruit hat

Also from their Nutrition Month Activities:

My daughter in their class Go, Grow and Glow food parade.

food parade

My sister and her teammates cooked Chicken with Broccoli for the competition.

Chicken with Broccoli cooking teammates

was not able to taste this

[late post for last week of July]