Celebrate Nutrition Month with Sardines Studio!

March is Nutrition Month, the perfect time to discuss healthy eating with children and show them that eating well can be fun! At Sardines Studio, we love combining art and learning, and we have some delightful surprises for teachers and parents who want to explore this topic in the classroom or at home.

🎶 The Delicious Musicians by Chloé Baillargeon

How about introducing nutrition playfully and artistically? Illustrator, comic artist, and children’s book author Chloé Baillargeon has created the Delicious Musicians collection: a series of illustrations featuring fruits and vegetables playing music! Imagine a pineapple playing the flute, a mushroom strumming a guitar, or an onion singing, Cry me a river… It’s a fun and engaging way to get kids excited about healthy foods!

 

Classroom Activity Ideas:

✔ Drawing Workshop: Have children create their musical fruit or vegetable and write a short story about it.
✔ Creative Display: Use Chloé’s magnets to showcase students’ artwork on the theme of healthy eating.
✔ Tasty Prize Draw: Offer an illustrated mug as a prize for a nutrition-themed activity or challenge.

 

🐊 Hector the Alligator: A Tasty Tale

The children’s book Hector the Alligator, written and illustrated by Amélie Legault, is a favourite in elementary classrooms for introducing nutrition in a fun and engaging way. Hector loves to eat... anything! Edible or... not! This book can spark conversations about food choices and balanced meals while keeping young readers entertained with its colourful illustrations and charming humour.

In addition to the book, available in bookstores and on Éditions Les Malins, Sardines Studio offers Hector-themed products like posters, mugs, and tumblers. A great way to bring this friendly alligator into the classroom or home as a fun reminder that eating well can be just as enjoyable as it is delicious!

 

Educational Suggestions:

📖 Interactive Storytime: Read Hector’s story and discuss the different foods he discovers.
🎨 Creative Art Activities: Pair the lesson with our free colouring pages, perfect for illustrating the theme in class.
✏️ Writing Exercises: Encourage students to create their own recipes inspired by Hector’s meals.
🥤 Blind Touch Test: Introduce kids to new fruits and vegetables with a fun blindfolded-tasting game. Match each food to Hector’s grocery basket for an extra playful twist!

At Sardines Studio, we love bringing a touch of whimsy to everyday life with our playful illustrations. Take advantage of Nutrition Month to add an artistic and fun element to classroom learning!

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