Yummy Relay

Yummy RelayCompete in a food group relay

Key Messages » Good nutrition is eating a rainbow plate across the food groups so we get the nutrients we need to

stay healthy, grow, stop us getting sick, and help us get better quickly. » Good foods make you feel good now and in the future. Some foods don’t give your body anything it needs

beyond energy to grow or stay healthy, so you should eat them less often.

45 minutes

• ‘Food Group’ cards• GPN Food Guide• Pyramid shape (showing how to do activity)

• Gather the following items:› Your country's food guide (if available - if not, use the GPN Food Guide)› Six pieces of flipchart paper and pens› Sticky tack› One smaller piece of paper or card per person

• Write the name of each food group at the top of each piece of flipchart: grains, fruits, vegetables, milk, meat/fish/eggs/pulses and fats/oils

• Stick the sheets of food group flipchart paper around the space and place six pieces of sticky tack on the front of each sheet of paper.

• Photocopy, print or make a set of six ‘Food Group’ cards for each small team

Everyone brings in one item of food. Work together to sort them into the different food groups. If you eat any of them, wash your hands first.

Listen to the song Sing a Rainbow2. Rewrite lyrics about eating a colourful plate.

Warm-up activity: [Five minutes]

1. Split into two teams. Get ready to play the warm-up game: the aim is to name as many foods as you can in 30 seconds.

2. How to play: the leader goes through the alphabet silently in their head. The group shouts, “Stop” (at random), and the leader says the letter they had got to. Teams then compete to write down foods that begin with their letter. The winning team is the one with the most foods at the end.

3. Each team takes a pen and a piece of flipchart paper. Divide the paper into three boxes. Teams decide who will do the writing (don’t worry about correct spelling).

4. The leader begins going through the alphabet. When the letter is announced, teams write the chosen letter at the top of their box. Teams then have 30 seconds to write down foods that begin with this letter.

5. Play the game three times, each with a different letter.

I know what good nutrition is

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Over a week, write down how many colours you have eaten every day. You could record it as a table or drawing. Share with your group at the next meeting.

Reflection: Thinking about what you learned in the ‘First Bite’ activity, name anything missing from your pyramid. Look back at the key messages. Finish by making a Pineapple Pledge: Take a piece of paper and draw a pineapple outline. Inside, write down or draw one thing you will do to improve your own nutrition.

Keep your Pineapple Pledge safe for later in the

badge.

Part two: Pyramid [20 minutes]

6. Come together in a circle. Work together to name the six food groups. Grains, fruits, vegetables, milk, meat/fish/eggs/pulses and fats/oils.

7. Looking at your country’s food guide, name the different food groups and how much it shows you should eat of each one. Which food group should you eat often, and which do you only need a small amount of?

8. We need lots of grains, fruits and vegetables. We need some milk and meat/fish/eggs/pulses. It’s very important that we eat fats (in oil and butter) every day, but in moderate amounts. Sugars (in candy, biscuits and cakes) don’t give our body anything it needs to grow or stay healthy (beyond energy), so we shouldn’t eat them very often.

9. We often organise the six food groups into a pyramid shape. We do this because it shows us that in order to stay healthy now and in the future, we should eat more of some foods and less of others.

10. In small groups, draw a giant triangle on flipchart paper. Divide it into six layers or rows (see example provided).

11. Looking at your country’s food guide, organise the ‘Food Group’ cards inside the triangle layers. Along the bottom row should be the food group you should eat in the largest amounts, and at the top should be the one you should eat in the smallest amounts. Complete the pyramid so that each layer shows a different food group..

12. As a whole group, discuss why using a pyramid shape is helpful, and why you didn’t need all of the cards to make the pyramid.

13. We need to eat across all the food groups in the pyramid to get nutrients (the things inside food that we need) to stay healthy and grow. An easy way to have good nutrition is to make sure our plate is colourful – we should “eat a rainbow”.

Main activity:Part one: Relay [20 minutes]

1. Sit together in a circle. In the warm-up we saw that there are many different types of foods. We organise food into different groups and need to eat across all of them to have good nutrition.

2. Get ready to play the relay game to learn the six groups. The aim is to be the first team to stick all six food cards to the correct food group poster.

3. How the game works: each team stands in the middle with a set of ‘Food Group’ cards. Each card shows examples of foods that belong to one of the food groups. When the leader shouts, “Relay!” every team looks at their six cards. Teammates take it in turns to choose a card they think they can match to its food group, then they run to stick it on that poster. A relay means that only one person can leave the middle at a time. The next team member can only go when their teammate has returned. .

4. Split into groups of six and take a set of cards without looking at them. All teams stand together in the middle and each team decides who will run first.

5. Repeat the relay until one team successfully matches all six foods to their groups.

This relay game is a great form of exercise – try to do physical activity like this every day.

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Yummy Relay

1.Food Group cards:

Fish, prawns, chicken, eggs, chickpeas, lentils

MEAT, FISH, EGGS AND PULSES

Milk, cheese, cream, yoghurt

MILK AND DAIRYPRODUCTS

Brown rice, pasta, corn on cob, sweet potato, bread, noodles

GRAINSBerries, mango, banana, lychees,

watermelon, passion fruit

FRUITSBroccoli, eggplant, pumpkin/

cassava leaves, carrot, avocado

VEGETABLES

Butter, ghee, coconut/vegetable/olive oil

FATS/OILS

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GIRL POWERED NUTRITION Food GuideThis is a global nutrition resource for any group to use. It includes the WAGGGS food guide (designed to be used by any country that doesn't have food guidelines), and an example food guide from each of the five WAGGGS regions.

Please use the food guide that's most relevant to your country and if possible, add your country's own food guide to this resource. It's really important that the badge activities relate to your daily lives and the foods available to you.

Malta

Lebanon Jamaica

�ailand Benin

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GIRL POWERED NUTRITION Food Guide

VEGETABLES

FRUITSFATS/OILS

WHOLEGRAINS

HEALTHY PROTEIN

WATER

KEEP ACTIVE!To be happy and healthy, try to do physical activity every day.

Drink lots of clean water. Limit sugar and milk in your tea or coffee. Avoid sugary drinks.

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3. Pyramid shape (showing how to do activity)

MODERATE AMOUNTS

SOME OF

LOTS OF