Nutrition and Healthy Eating
Get Up & Grow: Healthy Eating and Physical Activity for Early Childhood resources
The Get Up & Grow: Healthy Eating and Physical Activity for Early Childhood (Get Up & Grow) resources promote the key messages included in the healthy eating and physical activity guidelines.
Publications | CD ROM | Brochures | Translated versions | Promotional brochure | Ordering publications
The resources include a director/coordinator book, a staff and carer book, a cooking for children book, a family book, six posters, fourteen brochures and four stickers.
The Get Up & Grow resources are available in English and nine non-english languages (Traditional Chinese, Vietnamese, Filipino, Korean, Indonesian, Malaysian, Arabic, Turkish and Spanish).
Directors/Coordinators Book
The most detailed of all the Guidelines resources. Provides practical information and advice on early childhood healthy eating and physical activity, how to develop nutrition and physical activity policies and ways to support and encourage staff, carers and families.
NMM Order Code: HW 01
Staff/Carers Book
Provides practical information and advice on early childhood healthy eating and physical activity to all staff and carers in early childhood settings.
Format: B5, 84 pages
NMM Order Code: HW 02
Family Book
Provides families with practical information and advice to support healthy eating and encourage physical activity in young children.
Format: B5, 76 pages.
NMM Order Code: HW 04
Cooking for Children Book
Provides information and advice on early childhood nutrition, menu planning and food safety. Contains delicious and nutritious recipes for settings and families.
Format: B5, Spiral bound, 82 pages.
NMM Order Code: HW 03
Get Up & Grow Posters
Six posters for early childhood settings to encourage healthy eating and physical activity in young children. Features key messages from the Get Up & Grow resources and beautiful early childhood pictures.
Get Up & Grow Stickers
Four full colour stickers for early childhood settings.
Get Up & Grow CD ROM
Contains each of the Get Up & Grow brochures and information inserts on healthy eating and physical activity for settings to include in newsletters.
Get Up & Grow Brochures Fourteen full colour brochures covering the essential healthy eating and physical activity topics to support settings, staff and families. Features key messages from the Get Up & Grow resources and beautiful early childhood pictures.
Translated versions
Translated versions of the Get Up & Grow resources are now available to download.Traditional Chinese
Vietnamese
Filipino
Korean
Indonesian
Malaysian
Arabic
Turkish
Spanish
Ordering publications
To order any of the english publications please complete the order form.Additional information on ordering publications.
Promotional Brochure
A promotional brochure outlining each of the Get Up & Grow resources above and details on how to place an order was sent to all early childhood settings. The promotional brochure (PDF 3296 KB) is available to download.For further information about this project, please email PHD frontdesk with your query.
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