What is the Small Changes Whānau Challenge?
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At Life Education, the heart of what we do is teaching children about health and wellbeing.
Connecting with the people around us, moving, nourishing and appreciating our bodies can help us feel happier and healthier. Children love spending time with family, in fact we surveyed children across the country and 90% of them either ‘loved’ or ‘liked’ spending time with their whānau. That’s why we bring you the Small Changes Whānau Challenge! This simple 3 week challenge was created to support you and your family to have fun doing something small every day to improve your health and wellbeing, and spend more time together. |
We asked children what they thought about
spending time with their whānau: 
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How do I take part in the Small Changes Whānau Challenge?
It’s easy to get involved:
It’s easy to get involved:
- Have a look through the Small Changes Activity Pack.
- Read through www.smallchanges.org.nz to find ideas and activities to do together over the 3 week challenge.
- Using the Small Changes Planner schedule in the activities you’ve picked out – you can use your sheet of Small Changes stickers to indicate which kind of challenges you’ll be doing on each day. Remember to fit these around other activities that you’ve got
coming up too. - You can use the Spinner in the Activity Pack to help you make your activity selections.
- Register to receive email updates throughout your challenge with additional activity ideas.
- Get social, and post to Facebook or Instagram using #smallchangesnz.
- Now it’s time to get started!
What are the main focus areas of Small Changes?
The four pillars that we focus on are Connect, Nourish, Move and Appreciate - which cover off many of the key areas of our wellbeing. The challenges that fit under each of the pillars provide lots of opportunity for education, to spend quality time together, and to promote healthy lifestyles and wellbeing.
The four pillars that we focus on are Connect, Nourish, Move and Appreciate - which cover off many of the key areas of our wellbeing. The challenges that fit under each of the pillars provide lots of opportunity for education, to spend quality time together, and to promote healthy lifestyles and wellbeing.
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Challenge tips
Your family can pick and choose which challenge activities you would like to do based on what you enjoy and the time and equipment that you have available. Each challenge has little icons alongside it that indicate the amount of time that the activity will take and if the activity is generally lead by an adult in the family, or by a child. Look out for these icons to help when choosing your activities. |
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