Healthy Bones Resources
Dairy and Exercise Journal
Follow the 3 steps to building healthy bones and complete your dairy and exercise journal.
Dairy and Exercise Journal
Learn about bones and work together with your peers to decorate and build a large jigsaw poster.
The following activities are designed to stimulate, challenge - and to help promote optimal bone health.
Outdoor Activities
Simon says
Play ‘Simon says’ and practise a number of weight bearing exercises such as: 10 star jumps, hop on one foot 20 seconds, hop on other foot 20 seconds, four push ups, running on spot for 30 seconds, etc. Encourage your students to take it in turns being ‘Simon’ and see how many different weight bearing exercises they can come up with.
Build a skeleton
Play the Discover Dairy build a skeleton interactive game.
After playing the game, draw and cut out skeleton bones and design and play a ‘skeleton relay’ where students run from a centre point, one at a time to various areas where they have to choose a bone and return. Over multiple runs, students will work together to build a skeleton at the central point. If they choose the wrong bones, they’ll have to run back and select the correct one.
Match the pose
Play ‘match the pose’. Show pictures of skeletons in various positions and invite students to do the same pose and hold it – some easy, some 'stretches', some silly/off balance.
Joint activity
Undertake a ‘joint activity’ where students do relatively simple tasks such as exercising in the playground, picking up rubbish from the ground or writing something on the whiteboard, using – or not using – a specific joint. For example, you may ask a student to pick up some rubbish from the ground without bending their knees!
Indoor Activities
Create it!
Art is a fun way to explore a new concept. Create a range of bone craft. See this Pinterest link for ideas. You can also build, invent, and colour a skeleton using resources on the Discover Dairy website.
Design it!
This design your lunchbox worksheet provides a creative way to make lunchtime both fun and educational.
Act it out!
Cut out graphics of bones and turn them into finger puppets. Ask your students to develop and act out a puppet show about what it means to have healthy bones, and how to build them.
Snack on it!
After all that exploration about bones, prepare a range of dairy snacks to build strong, healthy bones.
Lesson Plan
Teach it!
Download the Healthy Bones lesson plan here.