Healthy snacks toolkit

Teach children how to make healthier food choices with these flexible lesson ideas – just pick and choose the activities that best suit your pupils and incorporate them into your lessons.

It’s a useful, practical resource with lots of good ideas, easy-to-use lesson plans and some curriculum mapping.

Get the whole school involved

Why not make a school-wide pledge to swap to healthier foods and drinks?

Display it so all children and staff can get involved!

Curriculum

Supports PSHE, PE, science, mathematics and English

PSHE Association guidance on delivering Health and Wellbeing in the Curriculum
Health and Wellbeing
Key Stage 2

• To recognise opportunities to make their own choices about food, what might influence their choices and the benefits of eating a balanced diet

PE
Key Stage 1

• Extend their agility, balance and coordination, individually and with others. They should be able to engage in competitive (both against self and against others) and co-operative physical activities, in a range of increasingly challenging situations

Science
Animals, including humans 
Key Stage 2

• Recognise the impact of diet, exercise, drugs and lifestyle on the way their bodies function

Mathematics
Measurement
Key Stage 2
Pupils should be taught to:

• Use all four operations to solve problems involving measure (for example, length, mass, volume, money) using decimal notation, including scaling

English
Writing – composition
Key Stage 1

• Pupils should develop positive attitudes towards and stamina for writing by:
• Writing for different purposes

In the classroom

Try these exciting cross-curricular activities to teach the importance of making healthier food swaps.

• Snack attack – PE
• Toothtastic experiment – Science
• Blocked pipes – Science
• Milk tops – Science
• Bring a box – Maths
• Sugar towers – Maths
• Cheese please! – English
• Swap at the shop – English

Learning objectives

• Understand how to maintain a balanced diet to lead a healthier lifestyle as they grow up
• Develop a positive attitude to healthier eating by having fun with food and exploring new tastes
• Make healthier food choices for themselves