I would like to acknowledge and give thanks to my Girl Scout Gold Award Project Advisor, Raquel MacGregor, Owner/Director of The Learning Garden Day Care Center in Yorktown Heights, NY, for the opportunity to work with her students. Thank you to my Project Mentor, Jean Windels for guiding me through my project and my Girl Scout Leader and Mother, Rhodella Hughes.

Acknowledgment

About Me

Hi. My name is Kiersten Hughes. I am an Ambassador Girl Scout that has completed my Bronze and Silver Awards. This book completes my global aspect of my Gold Award project. This book demonstrates activities to achieve a healthy lifestyle. I hope you all have fun and enjoy my activities!

Table Of Contents:

1) Healthy Eating...........................page 6

-food choices, food pyramid

2) Exercising..................................page 12

- types of actitivies, making it fun

3) Attitude.....................................page 16

-positive vs. negative, emotions

4) Sleep/Rest.................................page 18

-importance, routine

5) Relationships............................page 22

-friends, family

Activity 1- Choose My Plate

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Instructions:

1) Each student gets their own plate and activity sheet.

2) Begin with question number 1, which is healthier, Milk or Soda?

3) Once they chose the healthier choice have them cut it out.

4) Glue the picture onto the plate.

5) Continue this process up to number 6.

Supplies:

-Scissors

-Elmer glue stick

-Paper plate

-Activity sheet

Activity 2- Guess The Category

Instructions:

1) Hand out to each student a picture of a food.

2) One by one have the students say their food and decide which food group it belongs to.

3) Once they choose the correct food group, have them place the food picture under the category.

Supplies:

-Pictures of different foods

Yay Nay

Activity 3- "Yay or Nay"

Supplies:

-Scissors

-Elmer glue stick

-Picture page

-"Yay" or "Nay" chart

Instructions:

1) Hand out to each student the picture page and the "yay" or "nay" chart.

2) Go through the picture page and all the healthy foods place them under the "Yay" column and place all the unhealthy foods under the "Nay" column.

Activity 4- Exercise Box

Instructions:

1)Each student gets a exercise box template

2)Cut the outside border of the box

3)Fold box template into cube and tape it

To Play:

-Roll the box like a dice.

-Everyone performs the side that is facing up

Activity 5- Exercise Bingo