DECORATE HALLS AND CLASSROOMS
Have students create posters about the harmful effects of drinking pop and the benefits of making healthier food and drink choices. These visual reminders around your school will help motivate your stutents.

GET STUDENT COUNCIL INVOLVED
Get your student council to participate, to help lead challenges and competitions, or present skits on healthy eating and healthy drink choices.

HOLD AN IN-CLASS DEMONSTRATION
Displaying the negative effects of sugar and carbonated drinks is easy and effective. During Health, Home Ec or even Science class, students can be taught about the sugar content of various beverages, including demonstrations of how pop dissolves various substances, or how its corrosive effects can clean pennies.

“BRING A PIECE OF FRUIT FOR LUNCH” DAY Organize a competition where the class with the highest percentage of students who brought fruit will win a special snack break with fruit smoothies or fruit plates for everyone. Snacks can be accompanied by nutrition info to let kids know what eating healthy can do for their body and mind, and instructions on how to prepare simple healthy snacks for themselves.

EVERYONE LOVES A FREE LUNCH
Use your Drop the Pop funding to provide a hot lunch or two in February—maybe stew & bannock on one day, and chili and a bun on another. You can also provide “samples” of a healthy brown bag lunch for each student in the school… to be taken home at the end of the day and shared with their family, so that parents can see the kind of nutritious lunch and sugar-free drinks their kids should be taking to school.

You can find more great ideas in the Drop the Pop brochure.