Big Heart Day Challenge 2027!

The Heart Foundation's Big Heart Day Challenge invites early learning services to celebrate heart health through a fun skipping challenge for tamariki, kaiako, staff and whānau.

Join us in February 2027 for the Big Heart Day Skipping Skills Challenge. It's a fun way for tamariki to practise locomotion – one of the fundamental movement skills. Developing these skills supports balance, coordination and muscle strength, which are essential for play and lifelong enjoyment of movement. 

Choose any day in February 2027 to hold your Big Heart Day Skipping Skills Challenge at your early learning service. Enter our competition to win a visit from our mascot, Hearty!

Register today to receive a Big Heart Day Challenge kit, which includes:

• a free beginner skipping rope 
• skipping skills lesson plan 
• skipping skill cards 
• achievement chart and certificate. 

Find out more.

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