Healthy Habits Collage
Here's What To Do
Encourage your child to make a collage by gluing (or drawing) pictures showing healthy habits such as exercising, sleeping, eating healthy foods and brushing your teeth.
While they’re making the collage, you can talk together about why being healthy is important.
Your child can choose where to display their collage to remind them of healthy habits.
Don’t hesitate to keep adding pictures (by drawing or pasting) to the collage as you and your child think of new ideas/things to include.
Put PEER Into Action
Pause:
- Gather all of the items needed to make the collage and settle in with your child at the table. Now you’re ready to begin!
Engage:
- “What kinds of pictures do you think we should look for first?”
- “We haven’t found pictures for all of these things yet – let’s keep looking!”
Encourage:
- If your child is having trouble getting started, brainstorm ideas together before you start looking for pictures.
- Can’t find what you’re looking for – encourage your child to mix cutting and pasting and drawing to keep them engaged and excited to keep going.
Reflect:
- “What is the favorate picture that you found or drew on your collage? Why?”
Not quite ready?
Create the collage together. While you are looking at or drawing pictures, describe why it is a healthy habit and how your child can demonstrate this too.
Ready for more?
Your child can sort pictures of healthy and unhealthy habits. Then, create a collage with two sides to show the difference.
As your child masters this skill...
They will demonstrate and describe healthy habits.