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Share your top tips on how you get your family active as part of a healthy lifestyle with Disney’s Let’s Go campaign - £300 worth of Disney store products to be won NOW CLOSED

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AnnMumsnet · 10/04/2017 18:09

As part of Disney’s long-term, global commitment to Healthy Living, Disney is launching Let’s Go week. They’d love to hear your top tips on how you get your whole family to be active together as part of a healthy lifestyle.

Disney say "the launch of Let’s Go week follows research which revealed the importance of doing activities as a family with over half of parents and children saying that being active with their family would make them want to be healthier. While the majority of children revealed they look to their families to inspire them to lead healthy and active lives. The research also revealed that time is the biggest barrier cited by parents and children preventing them from being more active as a family – whether that’s because of work, school or children’s busy schedules. Let’s Go week marks the beginning of a series of video tips that will run from 10th April to the summer, offering inspiration on quick and simple activities families can do together".

So how do you encourage your family to be active? What sort of things do you like to do together or do you encourage the kids to do or try? How do you keep them going with active things? Please share your top tips on this thread (and if possibly on social channels using #DisneyLetsGo) and you will be entered into a prize draw where one winner will win a £300 bundle of goodies from the Disney Store (including a Belle Soft Toy, a Buzz Lightyear Talking 12'' Figure and a Elsa From Frozen Animator Doll and lots more!)

For more information on Disney’s Let’s Go week and how you can use Disney’s characters as inspiration to encourage your family to be active, see the video below:



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MakeTeaNotWar · 29/04/2017 07:35

Yay thank you so much! Smile

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AnnMumsnet · 28/04/2017 13:46

Thanks for all the lovely comments - MakeTeaNotWar wins the £300 of Disney goodies!

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stabbybitch · 27/04/2017 13:04

We are a non drinking household so walking is a big part of out day to day lives.

Our favourite family activities are long forest and beach walks. Take a picnic, football & frisbee and my lot will be happy for hours.

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Mummy2aRockstar · 26/04/2017 22:40

Myself, hubby and our 4 year old son love to swim and do so whenever we can. My husband works shifts so we're not always able to get to the pool but we live near a nature reserve, river and woodlands so there's plenty to do. We base our activities around the weather, bike rides along the river bank in summer and bird watching in our wellies in winter. I encourage my son to draw what he's seen on our adventures so he exercises his brain as well as his body.

Share your top tips on how you get your family active as part of a healthy lifestyle with Disney’s Let’s Go campaign - £300 worth of Disney store products to be won NOW CLOSED
Share your top tips on how you get your family active as part of a healthy lifestyle with Disney’s Let’s Go campaign - £300 worth of Disney store products to be won NOW CLOSED
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Earthmoon · 26/04/2017 21:09

Dh loves riding his bike and takes ds1 out with a lot of the times. I however, need to lose the baby weight so I have been taking the children to the park a lot of the time. I have also stopped using the car anywhere where walking to is less than 20min unless I need to buy heavy/ bulky items

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theshooglypeg · 25/04/2017 23:17

Endless walks to the park and a concerted effort to get my elder daughter to learn to steer her scooter!

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12LuDo · 25/04/2017 23:02

My son is really keen on photography, so I use that as a good incentive to take walks together, trying to find different things to photograph. There's always something different to discover, even if you walk the same route.

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molly57 · 25/04/2017 19:18

We walk everywhere.

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emmamed123 · 25/04/2017 19:12

Even though I own a car, we try and walk where possible and weather permitting.
The children enjoy physical activity and when we go to the park, they never keep still.

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hermagesty · 25/04/2017 19:08

We've recently gotten adult micro scooters. The kids absolutely love scooting along with us!! They find it hilarious! But in all honesty it's absolutely brilliant fun!! And great exercise for all of us!!

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AutumnElla · 25/04/2017 17:18

My kids don't need any encouragement, they're only 3 and 4 so love getting out and about. The park is always their favourite place, but as long as you join in they're usually up for anything.

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MillyVanilli222 · 25/04/2017 14:44

I always try and do fun, exciting activities as a family - things like swimming, climbing or even just going for walks somewhere interesting really work!

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Dessallara · 25/04/2017 12:11

We do a lot of walking! My 4 year old barely ever gets tired because she's used to walk long distances and she loves it :)

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lhlawrie · 25/04/2017 11:30

We go out for walks with the dog and swimming on the weekend. My son also has swimming lessons during the week and my 1 year old is always dancing.

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maria08k · 25/04/2017 11:25

We make sure we have lots of outdoor fun at the weekends...come rain or shine we embrace the British weather! Whether it be den building, bug hunting, pond dipping, planting seeds and flowers or just walking over the local water meadows and enjoying each others company. I think it's good to install this passion for being active and outdoors in children from a young age so it becomes part of their normal weekly/daily lifestyle.

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HELSREEDY · 25/04/2017 09:46

Walk walk walk!!! We try to visit a new place every weekend. Keeps us, the little ones and the waggy tailed one all happy. Sitting around the house does us no good - being out in the fresh air makes a massive difference!!

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Emmamaryd · 25/04/2017 08:45

try and make it fun ie instead of just going for a walk take the dog or walk to the park etc.

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bex552 · 25/04/2017 08:40

We love walking the dogs, and going geocaching! Exercise and treasure hunting! Fun! fun! fun!

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snare · 25/04/2017 07:43

we love doing things outside with the kids - going cycling walking swimming :)

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buchanl79 · 25/04/2017 00:44

To keep active as a family we have been going to an indoor climbing academy its great fun and we are thinking of joining an outdoor club for a greater challange

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peanutmum111 · 24/04/2017 23:45

I am lucky that I do not have to try too hard.
The boys have so much energy which they use.
We have a trampoline in the garden ........ used 'free-cycle', I think I would buy one if need be. They do their counting, times tables, spelling homework while jumping.
They are learning to ride bikes, again pass downs and cleaned up.
Local parks are wonderful, football ........

All these cost very little or free !!!!!!!
At the age now for clubs and payments, school has a wonderful club which 'try a sport activity', we manage not to waste money on kit, equipment ...............until they pick.
My aim is to try to give opportunities, possibilities without the pressure to be the best but to enjoy !!!!!!!!

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clarabella12 · 24/04/2017 23:28

we walk home from school most days which is over a mile, and the kids love going to the park and doing their jump start johnny videos.

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ggjacks · 24/04/2017 21:29

Mix things up! My son is an only child so doesn't always want to go out and play by himself. We walk the dog together daily, he sometimes cycles instead of walking. He does a couple of after school sports of his choosing and the weekend I let him choose something fun but active, eg trampoline park, climbing wall, go ape. And get him to the playground as much as possible. He needs exercising just like the dog!

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molly57 · 24/04/2017 20:09

Walk everywhere

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Rushy21 · 24/04/2017 19:12

We try to get out doors every day even if it's just bouncing on the trampoline in the garden or a visit to the park if the weathers rubbish we go to a soft play or swimming!

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