Tools

Each Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Play in the Playbook has tools and resources associated with it. Here are some tools that can work with your Plays or stand on their own. Use them to generate ideas for other activities or Plays you can do on your own!

(click on the tool name for a brief description)

• After-School Football Skills & Drills
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  Use this resource to improve football skills, while having fun getting 60 minutes of activity each day.

• Breakfast Anytime, Anywhere Tips
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  This detailed resource describes things to think about when running a breakfast-related Play. Ideas include who can help, food group information, sample menus and goal-setting ideas for implementing a program related to breakfast.

• Have a Milk Mustache Photo Contest
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  This resource provides step by step instructions for setting up a milk mustache center, including a recipe for making the milk nice and thick for a thicker mustache.

• In-School Activity Breaks Ideas
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  Take a break from class, with thise ideas for three- to five-minute activity breaks in the classroom.

• Know Your Fuel Trivia Game
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  It's time to play detective with this trivia game that will test your knowledge about naming a nutrient.

• Let's Do Lunch Poll Questions
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  Use these poll questions and ideas to help focus your lunch time Healthy Eating Play around student interests.

• Milk Mustache Photo Booth Tip Sheet
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  This resource provides step by step instructions for setting up a milk mustache center, including a recipe for making the milk nice and thick for a thicker mustache.

• NFL Stretches and Calisthenics
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  This handout provides a list and description of stretches and strength-building activiites that can be used to warm up before any physical activity.

• Physical Activity Extra Credit Ideas
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  This resource provides plenty of ideas for getting students to be physically active outside of school. Work with classroom and P.E. teachers to have them assign these, or send the ideas home for parents and caregivers to use to get students moving!

• Right Here - Right Now: Point-of-Decision Prompts
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  Learn about Point-of-Decision Prompts -- a strategy for placing signs around your school to encourage healthy eating and physical activity. Use this resource to help you create an Awareness Bulletin Board that will inform your classmates and others about Fuel Up to Play 60 and upcoming events.

• Sample Shake-Up Promotions
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  Use this set of promotions and sample PA announcements to get the word out about your Play!

• Starting a Recycling Program
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  This tip sheet will help you create a school recycling program.

• Taking It Further Ideas
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  Use these ideas to brainstorm how to take your Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Plays even further!

• Taste Test Tip Sheet
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  Use this tip sheet for ideas on how to conduct a fun, useful, taste test that can really have an impact on your school menus.

• Tips for Taste Tests
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  These ideas and suggestions for holding taste test events, from Game On! The Ultimate Wellness Challenge, can help you organize some successful testing events.

• Training Table Tips from the Pros
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  This tipsheet highlights some specific areas of need young athletes have, and how to help meet those needs. Emphasis is on nutritional needs for energy and proper growth and the importance of staying hydrated.

• Walk With a Purpose: Walk It! Club Suggestions
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  Use these ideas to make walking more fun and exciting, and to get more people involved in your walking program.

• Weekly Fun Facts
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  Want to get the word out about your program? Consider putting one or two of the following fun facts in your school newsletter or on flyers to create excitement and learn interesting details about the food you eat.