Eatwell Placemats

These placemats are a resource that children will find fun and at the same time informative about healthy eating. They are part of the Uscreates project for promoting healthy living for children in primary schools. The placemats are based on the ‘Eatwell Plate’ and outline the portions of food groups. They were designed using the children’s original drawings.

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Where did Zug come from?

Uscreates have developed a range of Healthy Living Challenge Sheets which encourage primary students to engage in healthy living messages. The sheets feature ‘Zug’ a character who accompanies students on their Healthy Living Challenge giving tips, inspiration and fun along the way.

Graphic Designer Hoo Yang Leung worked with Uscreates to design the sheets. Methods used to create shadow puppets inspired Hoo Yang to create the Zug character. Hoo Yang ripped up paper to create Zug’s strange, quirky shape.

The resources needed to be exciting and engaging but as they are to be reproduced in schools (black and white photocopying), minimal colour could be used. Hoo Yang’s shadow puppet method of character creation was an ideal and innovative solution.

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Healthy Living Challenge

Uscreates have designed a range of 7 Healthy Living Challenge Sheets as part of a Teaching Resource Pack being developed for schools in Woolwich. The sheets challenge primary students to fulfill tasks that relate to the 7 Healthy Living Messages being introduced in classroom sessions. The sheets also use interesting games and activities to engage students and their families in the healthy living themes.

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Breakfast Helps Me Concentrate

As part of Uscreates project designing communicative material for schools in Greater Woolwich, we have designed the ‘breakfast helps me concentrate’ t-shirt. According to the Healthy Schools Coordinator, a large number of children come to school without eating breakfast. By the time they eat lunch, it is around 17 hours since they last ate a meal (dinner) and concentration diminishes. This t-shirt can be used as a pyjama top, with the aim of promoting and reminding parents and children to eat breakfast before school and uses a picture created by a pupil from a local Primary.

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School Canteen Billboard

Creative Partnership awarded students at schools in London a budget to change something about their school. The primary aim was to empower students to design and improve their learning environment.

We worked with a group of art students at Dunraven Secondary School to design an awareness campaign for the school canteen. The students produced a number of designs for a large-scale billboard advertisement and posters to communicate issues around food and culture to the rest of the school.

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Breakfast T-shirts

Uscreates is working with three schools in Greenwich on a yearlong project to design teaching resources and communicative material to promote healthy living. The first design is a t-shirt/pyjama top to remind parents and children to eat breakfast before school. The final t-shirt is currently being designed using the Cardwell school pupils’ designs and will be mass produced and distributed around other local schools. For now, here is one of the pupils ideas!

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Jigsaw Puzzle Recipe Bags

These jigsaw puzzle recipe bags were produced as part of a project that aimed to encourage children to ‘experience’ food from shopping for it, to preparing it. The shopping bags have all the ingredients needed to make a particular dish, such as vegetable lasagne. Children are given the bag when shopping with their parents in the supermarket to find and chose the ingredients.

Uscreates is currently looking at the potential of making an adult version.

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