Gopher Exclusive Product
NutriPlay HealthySpots
An excellent teaching tool, these spots keep kids moving while learning how to make good food choices. Made of resilient and flexible polyvinyl, each spot features molded-in designs that will not wear off. Set is extremely versatile and easy to incorporate into multiple nutrition games!
Hustle to be Healthy
Get every student involved while hustling to collect healthy spots. When they get back to their team, players perform an exercise based on the food group they collected. After completing the exercise, the next team member races to grab another spot and repeats the process. When all spots are gone, the team that collected the most spots wins.
Another game involves racing during a relay to collect a spot from each food group. Or you can use the spots during a version of musical chairs with players trying to land on and collect spots from each food group.
Durable, Safe Design
Spots are made of flexible polyvinyl that will not slip on floors. The food is molded-in rather than printed on the spots, preventing them from wearing off. Foods include potatoes, tomatoes, milk, yogurt, strawberries, bananas, red peppers, and cottage cheese.
Pack includes 30 vinyl spots with 6 per food group (grains, vegetables, dairy, fruit, and protein) and activity instructions.
15 Energetic and Educational Activities Using NutriPlay HealthySpots
The NutriPlay HealthySpots from Gopher Sport are brightly colored, non-slip poly spots featuring fun, age-appropriate graphics of healthy foods and positive nutrition messages. Each set includes 12 vinyl spots with vibrant illustrations of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and healthy habits, making them perfect for combining movement with nutrition education. What makes them unique is their dual purpose: teaching physical literacy and promoting health literacy at the same time. These durable, flexible spots are excellent for incorporating locomotor, non-locomotor, and body control skills in engaging and educational ways. Below are 15 creative activity ideas that help reinforce both Fundamental Movement Skills (FMS) and healthy lifestyle concepts.
1. Healthy Hopscotch: Arrange the HealthySpots in a hopscotch pattern. Students hop, jump, or leap from food to food, naming each as they land.
2. MyPlate Movement Match: Call out a food group (e.g., "fruit"), and students must find and stand on a matching HealthySpot, then perform a movement like 10 arm circles.
3. Alphabet Apple Adventure: Call out a letter, and students must find a food that starts with that letter and do a movement on that spot (e.g., "A = Apple = 10 hops").
4. Balanced Meal Builder: Place HealthySpots around the gym. Students collect a "meal" by visiting 5 spots — one from each MyPlate group — using a different locomotor skill each time.
5. Rainbow Run Relay: Teams race to step on HealthySpots of each color in order (red, orange, green, etc.), practicing agility, sequencing, and color recognition.
6. Toss & Tell: Students toss a beanbag onto a HealthySpot, run to it, name the food, and perform a movement skill like a jump, twist, or stretch.
7. Fruit & Veggie Freeze Dance: Play music while students dance freely. Pause the music and call a food. Students must find that food’s spot and freeze on it.
8. Snack Stack Sprint: In teams, students sprint to spots and "build a snack" by standing on three spots: a grain, a fruit, and a dairy. First complete snack wins!
9. Matching Meal Memory: Flip over paper food cards that match the HealthySpots. Students find the matching spot and complete a balance or flexibility challenge on it.
10. Daily Choices Dash: Call out a meal (breakfast, lunch, snack), and students run to a spot with a food they’d eat at that meal, then perform 5 movement reps.
11. Locomotor Lunch Line: Line up HealthySpots in a cafeteria-style line. Students practice a locomotor movement while naming the food on each spot.
12. Spot the Color Challenge: Students must travel across the gym and land only on HealthySpots that are a specific color group (e.g., all green foods = veggies).
13. Food Group Frolic: Assign each movement skill to a food group (e.g., jump = grains, skip = fruit). Students must use that movement to travel to the correct spots.
14. Build-a-Meal Challenge Course: Create an obstacle course where students must visit one spot from each MyPlate category, performing a skill at each.
15. Healthy Choices Hunt: Hide HealthySpots under cones or hoops. Students use clues to find the food, identify the food group, and perform a related movement task.