Healthy eating and physical activity are essential for growth and development in childhood.  Young children need to eat five or six times a day.  For help coming up with healthy meal times, check our suggestions for toddlers age 1 to 5.

From this activity, children can learn sorting skills i.e. sorting the ‘caterpillar stones’ by colour, size and number of spots. You can develop this activity further by increasing the number of stones, or coming up with your own creative ideas for the back of the stones.