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Our body needs five things, every day, to keep it healthy:
Play the Body Bingo game to create a healthy person. (There should be one in your pack).
If you don't have a printer, just draw the Body Bingo boards (page 2) and use a dice - give each number one of the 5 healthy things, e.g. 1 = Food, 2 = Water etc. And 6 = A Healthy Person. You have to roll a 6 to start! Use coins for counters!
Our body needs five things, every day, to keep it healthy:
Begin by talking about why sleep is important.
Here are some ideas to get the conversation started.
Sleep helps our body to...
Explain that, to help us get enough sleep, it helps everyone (and that includes adults!) if they have a good bedtime routine.
Find out how much sleep young people need, from the NHS Live Well website, here.
Talk about the things we do before going to bed (e.g. stop looking at screens - TV, tablet, phone etc.) put nightwear on, brush teeth, wash hands and face or have a bath, bedtime story, cuddle teddy bear or blanket etc.
Look at the picture of Harold the healthy giraffe's bedtime routine and together, cut out the pictures of bedtime routine activities, then stick them onto a blank sheet of A4 paper in the correct order for their own bedtime routine. If you don't have a printer or you haven't collected a pack, draw the pictures, putting them in the right order. Your child can draw additional activities and include these if they want to.