"Let's eat healthy!"

Dear Parents,

It's healthy week! Let's start by eating healthily! A healthy activity has been planned for you and your child below:

Butterfly Sandwiches

Even the pickiest child will love these sandwiches, especially if he or she helped in the making.
It is important to cultivate healthy eating in children since young. Healthy eating benefits children's growth and holistic development. Besides, it boosts children's immunity system and prevents them from falling sick easily. To address the increasing trend of obesity in young children, healthy eating is one of the key solutions.

*Adapted from 501 Activities for Kids (Hodges, 2000)
What you need:

• Bread
• Cream cheese, cheese, or peanut butter
• Decorations such as fruit (e.g. strawberry, banana, apple) or vegetable pieces (e.g. carrot, lettuce), cheese slices, slices of sausage or ham, celery, raisins or anything else nutritious, tasty and colourful

What to do:

1. Cut a slice of bread into two or four triangles and face them outwards on a plate to form the 'butterflies' *
2. Apply a spread to the triangles
3. Decorate the triangles**

        *you and your child can come up with other designs too
       **allow your child to decide what goes on the sandwich, he or she will love to help and make suggestions

---YOUR SANDWICHES ARE READY TO BE EATEN!---  

Reference

Hodges, D. (2000). 501 Activities for Kids. Australia: Hinkler Book Distributions Pty. Ltd.

Be creative and enjoy the process of making healthy sandwiches with your child! Share your experiences and feelings with us by leaving a comment(s) and/or you may choose to email photos of your sandwiches to a.child.in.me@gmail.com and we will upload them on your behalf (*credits will be made to you and your child).

Ps: Stay tuned to our upcoming post this Thursday, 14 March 2013.

Yours truly,

Joyce, Gui Ling and Joanna

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.

-La Rochefoucauld-