Last Season’s Plays
Plays are your tools for making healthy changes! Pick a Play that suits your school, use it as a guide and be creative — then share your experiences with other schools!
Check Out Last Season's Plays!
A Community Taste Test Event
Healthy Eating
Get the community involved by hosting monthly nutritious taste tests for students, their families and other community members.
View PlayA Hero’s Breakfast
Healthy Eating
Promote healthy breakfast choices by hosting a monthly “hero’s breakfast” for invited community heroes or celebrities.
View PlayBig Game Training Table
Healthy Eating
Get the right nutrients for physical activity by planning some pregame or post-workout “fuel up” offerings.
View PlayBreakfast – Anytime, Anywhere
Healthy Eating
The morning is the perfect time to fuel up for success and start the day right. Choose the program that works best for your school and start eating a nutritious breakfast every day!
View PlayBreakfast For Everyone - First Meal Matters
Healthy Eating
The morning is a great time to fuel up for success and start the day right. Work with your school’s nutrition manager to adopt these nutritious breakfast programs.
View PlayBreakfast – Grab and Go!
Healthy Eating
Boost school breakfast participation by offering quick and easy choices students can grab on their way into school or between morning classes.
View PlayBreakfast in the Classroom
Healthy Eating
Increase breakfast participation by delivering reimbursable meals to classrooms for student consumption before or during class.
View PlayBreakfast Picnic
Healthy Eating
Set up an inviting, convenient breakfast picnic area that students can visit before school or between classes for nutritious, tasty choices.
View PlayBuild Your Own Shake-Up
Healthy Eating
Add a “Build Your Own Shake-Up Bar” in your school cafeteria, encouraging students to try new smoothie combinations.
View PlayDrink Milk and Recycle
Healthy Eating
Help students fuel their day by serving milk in plastic containers, and then build awareness about the benefits of recycling the bottles!
View PlayFarm to School - Know Your Food
Healthy Eating
Fresh, local foods — including school milk!i — can be a great addition to nutritious meals and snacks. That’s one of the reasons it’s a great idea to organize a “farm-to-school” program to learn about where your food comes from and lead efforts to have your school purchase and serve nutritious, fresh, regionally grown and raised food!
Farm to School
Healthy Eating
Fresh, local foods — including school milk! — can be a great addition to healthful meals and snacks. That’s one of the reasons it’s a great idea to organize a “Farm to School” program!
View PlayFood: Waste Less and Enjoy! It's Good for All of Us
Healthy Eating
Learning how to waste less by taking what you will eat in appropriate portion sizes to promote health and well-being is an opportunity to serve as a leader in your classroom and your community in tackling food waste.
From Farm to School: Farms Deliver
Healthy Eating
Learn about the farms and farmers in your area or region — they provide nutritious low-fat and fat-free dairy foods, as well as fruits, vegetables and whole grains.
View PlayFrom Farm to School: Know Your Foods
Healthy Eating
Highlight the origin of fresh dairy and other farmed foods, and help students learn more about why they are healthy choices.
View PlayFuel Up Your Community
Healthy Eating
Having access to nutrient-rich foods isn’t only important for students. It is vital to everyone in your community. You can help make sure that all families have access to nutritious meals.
View PlayGrab and Go – Anytime!
Healthy Eating
Set up quick and easy meals that students can grab for breakfast, lunch or after school for a nutrient-rich meal.
View PlayGrow a Pizza Garden
Healthy Eating
Grow a pizza garden with nutrient-rich ingredients for a pizza with students’ favorite toppings — then have a classroom or school-wide pizza party!
Healthy Breakfast, Healthy Lunch – BAR NONE
Healthy Eating
Create salad-bar-style breakfast and lunch meals, and recruit students to help select delicious, healthy options for the bar.
Highlight Healthful Foods – Everywhere in School
Healthy Eating
Get students excited about school meals and snacks! The goal is to give students access to healthy foods and to encourage them to make nutritious choices!
View PlayIt's All About Your Choices - Go Nutritious
Healthy Eating
Get students excited about school meals and snacks! The goal is to give students access to healthy foods and to encourage them to make nutritious choices!
View PlayMake Your Case for School Breakfast
Healthy Eating
Make sure your school offers a breakfast program, and get students involved in showing school breakfast’s connection with better health and learning.
Meet Your Inner Chef
Healthy Eating
Work with local restaurants to find chefs who can volunteer their time to help get kids interested — and spice things up — in your school meals program!
View PlayMilk Mustache Booth
Healthy Eating
Highlight the benefits of low-fat and fat-free dairy foods in students’ diets and let students sample dairy foods by hosting your own “milk mustache” photo booth!
View PlayNourish Your Community
Healthy Eating
Having access to nutrient-rich foods isn’t only important for students. It's also vital for everyone in your community. School meals and community resources like food banks and summer meal programs can help.
View PlayPlenty of Time...to Eat?
Healthy Eating
Find ways to give students adequate time to relax, socialize and have a well-balanced, nutrient-rich lunch.
View PlayPromoting Healthful Choices
Healthy Eating
Promote nutrition awareness by working with school nutrition professionals, teachers, administration, the school nurse and students — and be a role model yourself!
View PlayRecipe Contest
Healthy Eating
Hold recipe contests for new breakfast or lunch items and build students’ interest in making healthy eating choices.
View PlaySnack Smarter in School
Healthy Eating
Eating smart isn’t only important at meal time. You need to snack smart, too! Students and adults will work together to make sure the most nutritious offerings possible are available at school.
View PlaySnack Smarter Schoolwide
Healthy Eating
Eating smart isn’t only important at meal time. Snacking smart is important, too! This Play will teach you how to build a team of “Snack Smart Student Investigators.”
Super “Bowl” Party
Healthy Eating
Hold weekly or monthly super “bowl” parties with different ready-to-serve nutritious snacks or cereals served in bowls.
The Power Behind the Play
Healthy Eating
Use this milk-focused Play to help make the connection between the healthy benefits of low-fat and fat-free dairy foods and physical activity.
View Play100 Mile Club®
Physical Activity
Walking and running are great forms of exercise and they’re easy — you can fit them in whenever and wherever it works!
View PlayAfter-School Drills and Skills
Physical Activity
Add some fun to the after-school period by working with existing clubs or programs to implement some NFL-provided activities.
View PlayAll in, All Abilities - Activate Your School!
Physical Activity
This Play is about considering and addressing barriers to physical activity and finding ways to break those barriers down, either for ourselves or for others.
View PlayCommunity Playtime – It’s Good for Everyone
Physical Activity
Your entire community should be up and active! Partner with local community groups and organizations to offer physical activity opportunities outside regular school hours.
View PlayCreate Your Own Fitness Center
Physical Activity
Create a fitness center that can be used by students and teachers before, during and after school, and make physical activity a valuable part of your school’s day!
View PlayIn-Class Physical Activity Breaks
Physical Activity
Take a break to sharpen students’ minds! Whether you choose stretching and calisthenics, workout videos or dance breaks, you'll get everyone motivated to move more all day.
View PlayIn Class Physical Activity Breaks
Physical Activity
Take a break to sharpen students’ minds! Whether you choose stretching and calisthenics, workout videos or dance breaks, you'll get everyone motivated to move more all day.
Let's Dance!
Physical Activity
Ready to get moving? Set up a series of fun dance activities — or start a club — at your school.
Make Your Case for Quality Physical Education
Physical Activity
Create an awareness campaign to make sure your school has a quality physical education program — including P.E. every day that works for every student.
View PlayMarathon Kids®
Physical Activity
Think you can run (or walk) the equivalent of FOUR marathons in a school year? We do! Along the way, build self-confidence and healthy habits to last a lifetime.
View PlayNFL FLAG
Physical Activity
Start an official NFL FLAG Football league (or recruit teams from your school to join if one exists) in your area.
View PlayNFL FLAG In School - Get in the Game!
Physical Activity
Start an official NFL FLAG Football league (or recruit teams from your school to join if one exists) in your area.
View PlayNFL Play 60 Challenge
Physical Activity
Organize a friendly teacher competition for teachers to track their physical activity, and post it on a school bulletin board for students to see!
View PlayNFL Player Challenges
Physical Activity
Organize a weekly contest in which students or classes complete physical fitness challenges from NFL players!
View PlayRamp Up for Recess
Physical Activity
Make your playground an exciting place for recess! Work with your Fuel Up to Play 60 team to see what students like about recess time — and what could make it even better.
View PlayRecess Refresh
Physical Activity
Make your playground recess ready! Work with your Fuel Up to Play 60 team to see what students like about recess time — and what could make it even better.
View PlayStop and Go Signs
Physical Activity
Place “point-of-decision” prompts around the school to encourage students (and adults) to take advantage of every opportunity to be active!
View PlayWalk/Bike-to-School Program
Physical Activity
Make it possible for students to walk or bike to school with an adult chaperone in this fun physical activity!
Walk for Wellness Club
Physical Activity
Start a walking club to get students, teachers, administrators and the community to make walking part of their day — every day!
View PlayWalk this Way! Start a Walking Club
Physical Activity
Start a walking club to get students, teachers, administrators and the community to make walking part of their day — every day!
View PlayYou Can Do It – We All Can!
Physical Activity
This Play is about considering and addressing barriers to physical activity and finding ways to break those barriers down, either for ourselves or for others.
View Play2017-2018 PLAYBOOK
Check out the 2017–2018 Playbook.
View 2017-2018 Playbook