What’s New?

This year, we have added some new features like “Mindfulness Mondays” to promote Social-Emotional Learning (SEL). In addition to earning tickets for healthy selfies and healthy videos, kids can complete a BINGO Sheet and/or try a recipe to earn extra participation tickets each week. We have also added, “Wellness Wednesdays” to encourage physical activity and “Foodie Fridays” to promote healthy eating and cooking! All three components will be highlighted in a weekly newsletter.

Registration:

To register your child, please visit www.healthylombard.com and select  Flat Apple 2021 under the Quick Clicks Column on the right-hand side of the page. This link will take you to the registration site. There is no fee to register for Flat Apple.  Children must be registered by an adult to participate in the program.

How To Earn Tickets:

Flat Apple provides various opportunities to earn “tickets” throughout the duration of the program. At the end of the program, raffle prizes will be drawn using these tickets. There are several ways to earn tickets:

1. Registered participants can log their physical, SEL, and foodie activities on their Activity Tracker Sheet.  A copy of the activity tracker can be found at the end of this note. Additional copies can be downloaded at  https://healthylombard.com/activity-tracker-2021/Every 300 minutes of physical activity counts for one raffle ticket.  Participants log as many hours as they wish, but please note the max number of tickets earned for completing the activity tracker is ten (3,000 minutes).
2. Registered participants may earn tickets by posting a “Healthy Selfie” on THEIR Facebook including the hashtag #HealthySelfie.  Or email it to [email protected]. Participants may earn a total of 10 tickets by submitting “Healthy Selfies.”
3. Registered participants can make a Healthy Video and send it to [email protected].  After review, the videos will be posted on our YouTube Channel.  Each video accepted counts for 3 tickets.
4. Registered participants can complete a weekly BINGO card and submit them at the end of Flat Apple with their Tracker Sheets. Each Bingo Card is worth 2 tickets.
5. Registered participants can try a suggested Foodie Friday food or make the recipe and write the name of what they ate or made on their Tracker Sheet each week to earn 2 tickets.

 Communication:

Each week, the parents of registered participants will receive a short newsletter from Healthy Lombard.

In it, you will find some healthy hints, the Foodie Friday recipe, and links to the BINGO sheet and extra tracker sheets.  Sometimes, it may even include one of the Healthy Selfies submitted by a registered participant.

How and Where To Submit Tracker Sheets:

Tracker sheets should be returned to Sunset Knoll Recreation Center at 820 S. Finley Road in Lombard (Attention: Flat Apple 2021, Joe McCann).  Sheets are DUE BY AUGUST 7.

The Fine Print:

The participant (preschool (age 4) – high school (age 16)) MUST BE registered by a parent or guardian to win.

Individuals participate in activities at their own risk.

Students may participate in more than 1 activity per day but cannot repeat an activity (i.e. a student could do 1 selfie photo, 1 video, and 1 site activity each day but cannot do 2 or more of the same type of activity each day.)

Registering grants permission for a photo of participation (not name) to be posted on the Healthy Lombard Internet sites.

*Participation ticket drawing will be held at the September Healthy Lombard Partner Board Meeting.

Winners will be notified by email or phone, and their FIRST names will be posted on the Flat Apple 2021 Page of the Healthy Lombard website.

If the ticket belongs to a child that is not registered, he/she cannot win and the prize will go to a child that is registered.

Winners and their families will be invited to a prize reception in late September.