High Yield Activity: Fruit Salad Toss Up

Are you looking for a fun way to liven up your Healthy Habits or TRAIL programs? This is a fun game to play with the kiddos to help them become more familiar with different fruits. As a bonus, let the kids make their own fruit salads by having a variety of fruits for them to select from to mix into their own salads.

Target Area: Program room with tables and chairs

Objective: Members learn about healthy snack options

Target Age Group: Ages 6-9

Time to Complete: one 45 minute rotation

Skills Taught: Healthy Lifestyles

Materials Needed: none for the game, a variety of prewashed bite sized fruits, bowls, and spoons for snack

Instructions:

Have the group sit chairs in a circle. Once person stands in the middle of the circle and does not have a chair. All players are assigned fruit names: apple, orange, pear, plum (use names of fruits you have for the fruit salad if you're doing the snack option with the activity). The middle person calls out one or more fruit names. The called fruits must change chairs. The middle player tries to sit in an empty chair before the fruits do. The middle person may also call "Fruit salad toss up" for which all players must change chairs. The player left without a chair becomes the middle person. Repeat the game as time allows.

National Unicorn Day

National Unicorn Day is a new holiday this year and is set to happen every April 9. Growing up I was not a "horse" girl but I was most definitely a "unicorn" girl. One of my absolute favorite movies as a child was The Last Unicorn. With most holiday celebrations, the first thing we think of is a big party. However, this year instead of having a unicorn party I'm sharing ways to celebrate while practicing the social distancing that we all need to do to stay safe.

How can you celebrate National Unicorn Day? Well first of all, by watching one of the best movies ever. Have you seen The Last Unicorn (I'm honestly surprised at how many people haven't). Here's a clip and trailer from the movie.

If you would like to watch the movie but don't have a copy, you can rent or buy a digital copy through Amazon video.

Maybe you would like a snack while watching the movie. In that case, you might like to make some yummy Unicorn Dip like this that I found over at Simplistic Living.

Now that you've had your snack and watched your movie, are you looking for something else to keep you busy? You could make this toilet paper tube unicorn from Meraki Mother. It's super cute!

Another great craft that you can do at home that uses household items is this mixed media Unicorn Craft from Arty Crafty Kids.

However you decide to celebrate National Unicorn Day, you should definitely take some pictures and share with your friends. Even if we can't all be together, we can still interact virtually and share the holiday fun!