Sweet Temptations

Episode 26                                                                            Planet: Self

Learning concept of the episode: If you eat only candy all the time, you will not have a healthy body – or enough energy to play.

Story Summary

Bing and Bong come upon a mound of brightly coloured sweets. Bong takes a mouthful right away, whereas Bing takes one and puts it in the bag for later. Bing continues onto the other side of the planet, which is inhabited by brightly coloured and energetic Healthy Flockers, while Bong is joined by an Unhealthy Flocker who, thanks to eating too much candy, is too tired to play and slumps over, asleep. Meanwhile, Bing is on the Healthy side of the planet, playing tag amongst the fruit trees and water. When Bong arrives to join them, Bing has a creative idea to entice the Unhealthy Flockers to follow Bing’s example towards a healthier diet.

Focus Early Learning Goal

Physical Development 5: Recognise the importance of keeping healthy and those things which contribute to this.

Linked ELGs

CLL3, KU1, P8

Preparation

• Watch the Tiny Planets episode 
• Talk about what Bing and Bong did in the story

Talk about…..

• Foods that we like to eat
• What foods are good for us and bad for us?
• What would happen to us if we only ate bad foods?
• What foods do we think Bing and Bong would like to eat and should eat?

Focus Activity

 Good Food, Bad Food (see overleaf)

Follow-on Activities

• Fruit and vegetable  printing
• Fruit and vegetable tasting
• Food diaries
• Collage of favourite food on a paper plate

Good Food, Bad Food

Aim

To increase awareness of foods that are good for us, and the benefits of them

Resources

• Various items of food; healthy and unhealthy; including cake, sweets, fruit, vegetables, fizzy pop, milk, fish, pulses and chocolate
• Various magazines containing examples of pictures of different foods
• Paper
• Scissors
• Glue
• pencil

Guidelines

• Have all of the foods on display for the children to look at, let them touch and smell the various foods.
• Go through each one and ask them to describe it and tell you if they think it is a healthy or unhealthy food.
• Make two sets with the food, one healthy and one unhealthy, encourage the children to place the foods into the sets they think the foods belong.
• Give the children a piece of paper divided into two. Ask them to draw a happy face on one side for healthy food and a sad face on the other side for unhealthy food.
• Give the children the magazines and ask them to cut out different foods and glue them onto which side they think the food belongs.

Key Vocabulary

Good, Bad, Healthy, Unhealthy, Strong, tired, vitamins, energy

Health & Safety

Ensure that you have no child with a food allergy when handling the food items. If you do, you could use pictures of the food instead.

Provide scissors that cut well but are not sharp on the end and use non toxic glue.