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Beyond Breakfast
• Designate a volunteer to greet students in the morning and to sit and talk
with them while they eat;
• Celebrate students’ birthdays and other special occasions at the breakfast
club;
Breakfast Makes Me ShineTM
is Breakfast Club of Canada’s
unique approach which
ensures that all breakfast
club activities are based on
preserving dignity, building
self-esteem, developing
lifelong healthy living habits,
and pursuing dreams. It
recognizes that on top of
providing students with
the physical nourishment
they need to succeed each
morning, breakfast clubs also
provide vital opportunities for
children and youth to enhance
food literacy, build positive
relationships, and develop
leadership and life skills.
• Role model healthy eating by encouraging students to choose healthy fruits
and vegetables more often;
Through the Club’s
Breakfast Makes Me ShineTM
programming, schools
have access to useful tools,
information, and experiences
that are designed to enhance
school breakfast programming
while improving the
knowledge, abilities, and
confidence of those involved.
• Invite local heroes (athletes, musicians, 昀椀re昀椀ghters, police of昀椀cers, artists)
to serve breakfast. Provide time for them to talk to students about the
importance of healthy lifestyles and how they achieved their dreams;
We are fostering a social
movement that starts with
healthy food for children and
youth, becomes a vehicle for
individual empowerment (for
volunteers and young leaders)
and grows to the mobilization
of communities.
• Introduce students to new fruits and vegetables through taste testing
challenges. Students can vote on their favorite food items and enter into a
draw for healthy prizes;
• When introducing students to a new fruit or vegetable have information
sheets posted explaining where it comes from and how it’s prepared. If
serving fruit or vegetables chopped up, let students see and feel the whole
fruit or vegetable as well;
• Once a month offer foods from a different culture or geographical location.
Ask parents and grandparents to share their favourite family recipes and be
sure to share any fun facts about the new foods to students;
• Serve local foods when in season. Explain that in Canada we are lucky to
have such rich, diverse, foods to choose from;
• Start a school garden. Sample some of the fresh produce in your club;
• Start a recycling and composting program. Encourage students to monitor
their food waste and talk about the implications with the goal of reducing the
total amount of wasted food;
• Promote physical activity by offering fun activities and equipment for
students to use after eating their breakfast;
• Offer educational opportunities including a reading buddy program or
homework help club. Offer books that celebrate healthy lifestyles;
• Start a cooking club for breakfast club student volunteers. Encourage older
students to teach younger students with a buddy system;
• Create a healthy school team with students. Put these students in charge
of planning and running different healthy activities for the rest of the school
throughout the year;
• Plan a 昀椀eld trip to a local farm or grocery store;
• Invite a farmer or health professional to the school to talk to students.
For more information or to sign up for any of the
Breakfast Makes Me ShineTM programs below, please visit
www.breakfastclubcanada.org
or contact shine@breakfastclubcanada.org
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