Healthy Eating Active Living Catalogue

The following materials are displays, kits, and games for health promoters and educators, teachers, professionals and health intermediaries.

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Healthy Eating

Resource Name	Resource Description	Picture of Resource
Eating Well with Canada’s Food Guide	This display illustrates Eating Well with Canada's Food Guide and provides examples of serving sizes for each of the four food groups.
Portable Handwashing Station	The portable handwashing station may be used during activities involving the handling and/or service of food, especialyl when no sink or running water is available nearby the area where food is served.
Power of Pulses [PDF 1,543 KB]	The purpose of this kit is to increase knowledge about pulses: the important role of pulses in food, nutrition, and the environment. This kit includes background information for the facilitator. It also includes three interactive games that provide an opportunity for discussion on how to identify different pulses, the health benefits of pulses, and how to buy, store, and prepare meals using pulses.
Sip Smart!™	This display reinforces the messages children learn in the Sip Smart!™ Ontario classroom educational program by promoting healthy drink choices. Use the wheel and let the students guess how many cubes of sugar there are in a sugar-sweetened beverage. The bright-coloured banner will display what drink choices are best to have every day, sometimes and to avoid.
Sugar Shocker	This kit exposes the nutritional and sugar content of popular beverages. Fruit drinks, iced tea, pop drinks, energy drinks, iced coffee, sports drinks, vitamin added water, 100% orange juice, chocolate milk, white milk and water are featured. Packets of sugar illustrate the quantity of sugar in each beverage. An educational guide with key messages is also included. Sugar Shocker Kit [PDF 2.14 MB] Liquid Candy Factsheet [PDF 230 KB] Sugar Shocker Factsheet [PDF 146 KB]

Active Living

Resource Name	Resource Description	Picture of Resource
2V1 Banner	Outdoor banner on how to properly fit a bicycle helmet. Size: 5 feet by 3 feet.
Bag of Ropes and Balls	A bag of various sized playground balls and jump ropes for general physical activity games and activities.
Fitness Skillastics Game	Fitness Skillastics features 26 fitness exercises covering all four fitness components - flexibility, cardiovascular/respiratory endurance, muscle strength and muscle endurance. Each game set comes with an instructions manual on how to set up the game and how to play.
Forever Young at Heart: Rubber Chicken Activity Game	A variety of games and activities that encourage participation and fun using rubber chickens for administrators, teachers and community leaders.
Omnikin Ball	This gigantic ball comes with set up instructions as well as an electric pump.
Pause to Play - Reduce Screen Time	This display can be used as an interactive and informative resource at events targeting sedentary behaviour and screen time in children and youth. The display consists of two banners with messaging around sedentary behaviour, screen time and physical activity. In addition there is a “Plinko” game which can be played by dropping a puck down the TV screen into a slot with one of four categories: planning your screen time, alternatives to screen time, consequences of screen time and general questions.
Tug-O-War	This 4-way Tug-O-War is an effective team builder. Being physically active and developing communication skills by working as a team to develop a strategy is the ultimate goal of this game. It can accommodate a large or small group.