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CNOP has a variety of FREE materials that you can use to implement, improve, and promote your breakfast program. Most of these materials are available for you to download. Others need to be ordered by mail. If you have difficulty accessing any of these resources or have questions regarding what is available, feel free to email cnop@projectbread.org.

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Downloadable Materials:

New! Breakfast Activity Pages
These activity pages are a fun way to promote the importance of eating a healthy breakfast. Each activity page features entertaining characters and messaging and are designed to appeal to a wide range of ages. Print them on the back of your menus, distribute them to students during breakfast, or give them to teachers to use in the classroom.

Coloring Page with Frog
Coloring Page with Playground
Coloring Page with Sun
Maze




New! School Breakfast Newsletter Articles and Menu Briefs
These sample newsletter articles and menu briefs about school breakfast can be edited for your school's newsletter or menu and then sent home to parents.

Download:

Back to School

School Meals Applications
School Breakfast Week 2008- Fuel Your Imagination
MCAS

Sample Flyers About School Meals Applications

For Food Service Directors

For Principals

For Teachers

For Parents
English - New!
Spanish - New!

For recent immigrants:
English
Spanish - New!
Portuguese - New!
Cape Verdean Creole - New!
Khmer - New!
Russian - New!
Vietnamese - New!


Sample Letters to Parents About School Meals Applications

Letter from Food Service Director

Letter from Principal
English
Spanish



How to Start a SBP Guide
A complete guide to starting a School Breakfast Program including what, where, and when to serve breakfast along with details on start-up costs, staffing, and reimbursement.

Download: How to Start a SBP Guide

 

Breakfast Start Up Toolkit
Whether you are starting a new breakfast program or expanding an existing one, you will find helpful hints for increasing breakfast participation at your school in our Breakfast Start UpToolkit. Inside you will find information on how to involve the whole school community to make breakfast a regular part of your school day. Each toolkit comes with a disk featuring additional resources to promote your breakfast program.

You can order the complete toolkit with disk by mail for free or download the kit components on our website.

Download:
Main Content

Middle and High School Information
This document includes numerous suggestions for reaching out to older students who often skip breakfast both at home and at school.

Teacher Newsletter Article
Teachers can include this newsletter article about school breakfast in their school newsletter to parents. It can also be included on the back of a school meals menu.

Parent letter from Nurse
Nurses can modify this sample letter about the importance of school breakfast and send it home to parents.

Parent letter from Principal-English
Parent letter from Principal-Spanish
This letter is intended to notify parents about the School Breakfast Program and its many important benefits. It is also available in Spanish and can easily be modified to fit your needs.


School Breakfast Flyers
The following flyers are also part of the School Breakfast Toolkit. They can be downloaded and modified with your school's information.

Each flyer is available in two formats:

Version A: For schools that offer universal free breakfast (UB) to all students regardless of household income.
Version B: For schools that do not offer UB.


Elementary School Flyer:
"Eat School Breakfast" -- Version A (UB), Version B (not UB)


Elementary School Flyer:
"Growling Stomach" -- Version A (UB), Version B (not UB)


Middle/High School Flyer:
"Start Your Day" -- Version A (UB), Version B (not UB)




Parent Flyers:
Parent Flyer - English -- Version A (UB), Version B (not UB)




Parent Flyer -- Spanish

Student/Parent Breakfast Surveys
In order to make a breakfast program truly successful, you need to find out what your customers want. These surveys can be distributed to students and parents to discover their school breakfast preferences. Then you can use the results to create a program that is fun and delicious for all.

Download:
Breakfast Surveys for Students
Breakfast Surveys for Parents

 

School Breakfast Club
All the materials you need to start a School Breakfast Club at your school. The School Breakfast Club encourages students to attend breakfast as much as possible in order to be eligible for a monthly prize. Cards are given to each member and are punched or stamped every time that student attends breakfast. After going to breakfast twenty times, the student can enter the card into a raffle drawing for a prize.

Download:
SB Club Instructions

SB Club Rules
SB Club Cards
SB Club Flyer for Kids
SB Club Flyer for Parents

 

Breakfast Brainstorm Newsletter
Our bi-monthly Breakfast Brainstorm Newsletters include creative ideas to enhance your school breakfast program.

 

Books at Breakfast
This document provides various ways to incorporate books for elementary school children into the School Breakfast Program—a winning combination!

Download: Books at Breakfast Information

 

School Breakfast Poster contest
Invite kids to enter a school breakfast poster contest by posting this 8 ½” x 11” flyer around your school. Feel free to modify the contest rules that are listed on the flyer.

Download: SB Poster Contest Rules

 

School Breakfast Rap Contest
Everything you need to host a school breakfast rap contest is right here. Modify our rules, application form, and promotional flyer with your school’s specific information, and then encourage kids to create a rap song describing why they like school breakfast.

Download:
SB Rap Contest Rules

SB Rap Contest Application Form
SB Rap Contest Promotional Flyer

 

School Breakfast Memory Game
Make breakfast fun with our school breakfast memory game. Students look for matching memory cards with images of breakfast items. You can download game cards and rules here.

Download:
SB Memory Game Rules
SB Memory Game Cards

 

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School Breakfast Parent Brochures - New Design!
The School Breakfast Parent Brochure is a tri-fold brochure targeted to parents that promotes the academic and health benefits of school breakfast. Each brochure has English on one side and your choice of six different languages on the opposite side. When ordering the brochures, please let us know how many of each language you would like to receive.

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Breakfast Start Up Toolkit
The complete Breakfast Start Up Toolkit with disk is available by mail.


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Marketing Healthy Foods ToolKit
This toolkit provides ideas and resources for promoting nutritious food among students. The complete toolkit with accompanying CD is available by mail.


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New! Resource for Community Agencies

Many parents find out about the School Breakfast Program from community agencies and faith based organizations. Here is a sample article about breakfast that agencies, churches, food pantries, and other organizations can include in their newsletter.

 
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