Staying Healthy and Happy – Class 3 Activities | NCERT Chapter 9 Teaching Ideas

🌟 Class 3 – Chapter 9: Staying Healthy & Happy
Activity-Based Learning Page

This webpage includes the best activities to teach the NCERT Class 3 lesson “Staying Healthy and Happy”. All activities are child-friendly, practical, and support concept clarity.

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1️⃣ Healthy Routine Sorting Game

Concept: Personal hygiene & daily habits
Materials Required:

• Picture cards (brushing, eating junk food, dirty nails, bathing, etc.)
• Two baskets/boxes labelled: Healthy Habits & Unhealthy Habits

How to Do:

• Show children the picture cards.
• Ask students to come one by one and place the card in the correct basket.
• Discuss why each habit is healthy/unhealthy.

Teaching Tip: Use real-life examples so children connect habits to their daily life.

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2️⃣ Grandparents’ Wisdom – Show & Tell

Concept: Traditional cleaning methods (neem twig, shikakai, reetha)
Materials Required:

• Neem or babool twigs (optional)
• Chart to note down children’s findings

How to Do:

• Ask children to talk to their grandparents about cleaning habits used in old times.
• In class, every child shares one traditional method.
• Show neem/babool twigs and explain how they were used.

Teaching Tip: Connect this activity with “old vs modern” ways of brushing and cleaning.

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3️⃣ Hop, Skip, Jump! – Fitness Stations

Concept: Importance of exercise
Materials Required:

• Skipping ropes
• 4 activity station sheets (Duck Walk Zone, Frog Jump Zone, Cat Run Zone, Skipping Zone)

How to Do:

• Create 4 fitness corners in the playground/classroom.
• Group children and rotate them every 1 minute.
• Children perform each movement happily.

Teaching Tip: Explain that exercise makes our heart beat faster and keeps us strong.

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4️⃣ “Name the Game!” Board Activity

Concept: Indoor vs outdoor games
Materials Required:

• Pictures of chess, ludo, football, cricket, kite, etc.
• Two chart papers labelled “Indoor Games” & “Outdoor Games”

How to Do:

• Display game pictures from the lesson.
• Ask students to classify them under indoor or outdoor.
• Ask: “Which games make your mind strong? Which make your body strong?”

Teaching Tip: Let students bring or draw pictures of their favourite games.

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5️⃣ Safe or Unsafe? – Role Play

Concept: Safe places to play
Materials Required:

• Flashcards of places (park, schoolground, busy road, construction site)

How to Do:

• Show one picture at a time.
• Students respond by saying “Safe” or “Unsafe”.
• Discuss why some places are unsafe.

Teaching Tip: Add real-life examples from the school environment.

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6️⃣ Stranger Danger Skit

Concept: Safety from strangers
Materials Required:

• Role-play cards (Stranger giving sweets, offering lift, asking to follow)

How to Do:

• Two students act as strangers.
• Other children practice saying: “No, thank you. I don’t know you.”
• Repeat with different situations.

Teaching Tip: Teach children a “home safety password” to be used with parents.

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7️⃣ Make Your Own Weekly Health Table

Concept: Tracking habits (sleep, brushing, food, screen time)
Materials Required:

• Health table worksheet (or notebook)

How to Do:

• Students fill a one-day or full-week health table.
• Ask them to note how they felt each day.
• Discuss patterns: “I feel good when I sleep well.”

Teaching Tip: Display best tables on the class bulletin board.

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8️⃣ 24-Hours Daily Circle Chart

Concept: Balanced lifestyle through time management
Materials Required:

• A circle divided into 24 slices
• Colour pencils

How to Do:

• Give students a blank 24-slice circle chart.
• Children fill and colour slices:
  • Sleep
  • Eating
  • Studying
  • Playing
  • TV/Mobile
  • Other activities
• Discuss why a balanced day is important.

Teaching Tip: Compare two charts – one with too much screen time and one balanced.

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✨ Bonus Mini-Activities

• Handwash Dance: Children follow the 6 handwashing steps to music.
• Healthy vs Junk Food Race: Sort picture cards quickly.
• Feelings Meter: Students point to: 😊 Good / 😐 Okay / 🙁 Not Good.

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🌟 This completes the full activity pack for the chapter!

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