Resources for schools
Looking to bring The Big Bean Boost to life in your school? We provide lesson plans, activity sheets, an assembly, a digital flyer to send home to families, a design kit to create your own resources and a social media toolkit.
Plus of course, our comprehensive teachers’ guide and all the information you need to send home to get parents on board with bean-boosting their meals.
We will be providing new lesson plans, activity sheets and resources – make sure you are registered for updates for these resources.
Guides
Download our guides to running the programme here:
Teachers’ Guide
Everything you need to know about The Big Bean Boost programme is included in this teachers’ guide. Includes useful programme check list.
Parents & Carers Guide
Send our digital flyer home to parents and carers at the start of the programme, so they can make the most of the take-home mission packs and online expert resources we have to help them to get their families eating more beans.
Social Media Toolkit
A handy guide with details and suggestions for sharing your amazing bean moments on social media.
Design Kit
Here’s a full design kit & style guide for making your own assets including illustrations, backgrounds and fonts.
Assembly
Assembly
Kick off The Big Bean Boost campaign with a colourful, fun-filled assembly that brings the creative idea to life and gives everyone a glimpse of the exciting activities ahead.
Lesson plans
To support the campaign in class over the coming months, we have created a series of curriculum-compliant and teacher-friendly lesson plans, suitable for all age groups. These lesson plans will be added to over the course of the three year campaign.
All the lessons are linked to the current National Curriculum and can be used to cover elements of Science (Animals and Humans), Design and Technology (Cooking and Nutrition), RSHE (Healthy Eating), Music, Geography, History, Art and PE.
They also link to the Food teaching in primary schools: knowledge and skills framework – GOV.UK .
EYFS: Let’s explore beans!
A carousel of activities and ideas for introducing and exploring Beans in EYFS.
With ideas linked to all the ELGs and the Characteristics of Effective Teaching and Learning.
ALL YEARS: Big Bean Boost warm up
A bean inspired warm up for all years for PE lessons or simply when you need a movement break.
Linked to PE National curriculum.
ALL YEARS: Supermarket pulse mission
Help your pupils become real-life “Pulse Patrol” detectives with this downloadable task sheet to investigate Beans in the supermarkets.
Links to Maths, English, Geography and Science.
YEARS 1 – 4: The Big Bean Boost Orchestra
Pupils to explore rhythm, tempo and patterns in this Big Bean Boost orchestra lesson with percussion instruments.
Linked to Music National Curriculum.
KEY STAGE 1: Bean mandala art
Pupils to explore and create Mandala patterns using beans and clay.
Linked to Art National Curriculum.
KEY STAGE 2: Beans, art and Arcimboldo
Pupils to explore the use of food in Arcimboldo artworks and create their own portrait using beans.
Linked to Art National Curriculum.
KEY STAGE 2: Beans, art and Pointillism
Pupils to explore the paintings of Georges Seurat and Pointillism and create their own using lentils.
Linked to Art National Curriculum.
Activity Sheets
Download these fun bean activity sheets
Boogie
Doodles, Top 5s and a cheeky chickpea challenge.
Choppa
A very tasty code cracker, word game and spot the difference.
Rumble
Doodles, menu fun and a delicious drawing challenge.
Scoopa
Go colour crazy with a brilliant bean mandala, future-predicting and joke puzzle fun.
Squidge
Step by step drawing, search and find and a very beany wordsearch.
Toot
Imaginative bean art and super silly sentence builders.
Colour, stick and draw!
Get creative with these monstrously cool activities
Boogie
Choppa
Rumble
Scoopa
Squidge
Toot
Bean mandala
Print out and spend some relaxing beany time colouring in!
Make your own monsters!
Use your stickers to make your own monsters, or just draw your own details in and add some colour.
Coming soon
January 2026 : A passport of beans
A series of lessons for both Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 exploring the geographical journey of the beans that we eat today. Linked to Geography and MFL (KS2) National Curriculum
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