Active for Life: Community toolkit

We know more than ever about how children learn and develop, and this includes physical activity and sport. Active for Life collects the best research behind raising healthy, physically literate kids and presents it in ways that parents can understand and put into practice.

This toolkit will help parents anywhere their children are active: recreation centres, community associations, local health and wellness groups, even libraries.

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Articles

If you are looking for engaging content for your website or newsletter, you are welcome to reprint any of the more than 1,000 Active for Life articles. We just ask that you follow our reuse guidelines. Here are some favourites.

What exactly is physical literacy? This graphic makes it easy to understand.
Sweat, step, sleep and sit: The new 24 hour guidelines
The new 24 hour guidelines for early years
Children with poor physical literacy struggle as adults
Why teaching kids how to move has become essential
6 tips to help coaches teach parents about LTAD
The mental health benefits of free play
“As safe as necessary”: a new way of looking at risk

Curated lists of articles

Want to take a deeper dive into a particular topic? Our curated pages are lists of the best articles on specific sports, special topics, and information of interest to different communities and groups.

Curated landing pages

Tools

We’ve got materials that can help you educate parents about physical literacy. They include bookmarks and postcards you can order, posters you can download and print, presentations you can use (and slides you can use in your own presentations), and fun things like a quiz and a fortune teller you can download.

Free tools and learning materials

Share translated resources

Help newcomers to Canada by sharing our resources and posters translated in 9 more languages.

Share our translated resources

Activities and lesson plans

Ready to get kids moving and developing physical literacy? Here are some ideas for program leaders:

Activities for kids and parents (1-12 years)
Lesson plans (3-12 years)
Lesson plan modules (3-12 years)
Interactive lesson plan builder (3-12 years)

Sound bites and shareable graphics

You can use the memes on the following pages on your social media channels, web pages, newsletters, and anywhere else you think they’d work:

Get social with Active for Life

Social media is a great way to build understanding in parents and to inspire them to add more movement into each day, for their kids and themselves.

Follow Active for Life on social media and enrich your social media channels by reposting and retweeting AfL content:

Using hashtags is a great way to connect your club members with the broader discussion. Consider using these:

#physicalliteracy
#activeforlife
#sportsparents
#qualitysport
#LTAD
#multisport
#youthsports

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