Easter

Top Easter craft ideas

Easter brings with it some fantastic opportunities to get out the paints and craft materials and create lovely eggs, chicks, cards and bunnies!

Easter trees Potato Easter egg stamps Egg carton chicks

Easter bunny headband Easter scene jar Stitched Easter bunny card

Pompom bunny bonnet Easter egg pinata No sew sock bunny

Easter cooking

Fill the kitchen with delicious smells and make some yummy Easter treats with the kids.

Chocolate cornflake cakes Hot cross bun trifle Easter bunny KitKat house

Easy hot cross bun ice-cream

Easter marshmallow bubble slice

Chick biscuits Choc chip hot cross buns Greek Easter cookies

Lemony Easter chicks

One snack too many?

Even if your child is a healthy weight, it’s not great if they eat little nutritious food and get most of their energy from unhealthy or sugary snacks.

Public Health England advises parents that sticking to two packaged snacks a day and keeping them each at under 100 calories (kcals) or 418 kilojoules (kJs) is really important for children.

The food label usually states how many calories are contained in 100 grams or 100 millilitres of the food or drink you are buying, so do compare the calorie content of different products. The free NHS Food Scanner app helps you scan product barcodes to find healthier alternatives.

You’ll be surprised at how high the energy intake is for some common snacks.

Calories in popular packaged kids’ snacks

Nature Valley Crunchy Oats & Honey Bar Packet of Walkers Ready Salted Crisps 32.5g KitKat 2 Finger Bar Soreen malt lunchbox loaf Cheestring McVities Ginger Nut Biscuit Mini Milk Ice Cream Lolly Froot Shoot Orange Juice Drink Fruit Shoot hydro water 823kJ 706kJ 436kJ 380kJ 253kJ 196kJ 134kJ 40kJ 8kJ or or or or or or or or or 196kcal 169kcal 104kcal 90kcal 61kcal 47kcal 32kcal 10 kcal 1.8kcal

Useful online resources

Better Health – tips, tools and apps to help you improve your family’s health. The Eatwell Guide – how much should you eat from each food group? Plus healthy snacks ideas.

BMI healthy weight calculator

- calculates healthy weight.