Promotion Tips and Ideas
Games you can play at a health fair, festivals or picnic type events with a dairy theme!
Adapted from: Healthy Kids Challenge Dairy Dazzling Calcium Carnival. Source: Fit Youth Initiative, Ohio State University Extension, Tuscarawas County – 2005 3-A-Day of Dairy Nutrition Education Grant recipients.
3-A-Day Putt Putt
Goal: Players getting to the end of the course in only 3 strokes win.
Supplies:
- Plastic golf clubs or hockey sticks
- Lightweight plastic balls
- Stand-up pictures of milk, cheese, yogurt, and ice cream with small holes cut out for balls to pass through
Set-Up:
- Create a “mini” golf course using pictures of dairy foods to make the "holes".
- Glue pictures of boxes and cut out holes.
Instructions:
- Each player gets a club and a ball and attempts to get the ball through each cutout in only 3 tries.
- After the first player gets to the 3rd "hole" the next player may start.
Got Milk?
Goal: The first team to get 3 cartons into the mouth wins!
Score more with 3 servings of milk a day!
Supplies:
- A life-size cutout of a person or their head with hole cut
out for the mouth big enough for small milk carton to pass
through. - 3-5 empty single serving milk cartons for each team
Masking tape
Set-Up:
- Mark a playing line 5 feet in front of the cutout or
basketball hoop
Instructions:
- Divide into 2 teams. The first 3 players on each team get a milk carton.
- Line teams up about 5 ft in front of the cutout.
- Each player gets one try to get the carton into the mouth.
- Players pick up the carton they used and hand it to the next player needing one.
