The mission of the Grand défi Pierre Lavoie
The mission of the Grand défi Pierre Lavoie is to encourage young (and not-so-young) people to adopt healthy lifestyle habits. To achieve this goal, the Grand défi works to mobilize the early childhood community to encourage young people to choose a healthy lifestyle on a regular basis, so that these habits become the norm for tomorrow’s generations.
Get moving, for fun!
The Energy Cubes Challenge meets this objective by motivating young people and their families to get moving for fun!
Who knows? Maybe you’ll discover a new sporting activity to share with your kids during the Energy Cubes Challenge! It could even become a new habit in your daily routine!
Are you taking part in the Energy Cubes Challenge? Your involvement is already having a positive impact on your child’s perseverance during the Challenge. Want to know how to get involved? Take a look below!
A helping hand from the family is always helpful! Here’s what you can do to help and encourage your child:
Any group or individual activity that requires physical exertion or raises the heart rate counts toward the accumulation of Energy Cubes. Examples include tricycle, ball games, walking, obstacle courses, hoop games, skill games, soccer, hockey, playing on swings, mini-basketball, jump rope, pool games, snowshoeing, dancing, aerobics, gymnastics, active video games such as Wii Fit and Kinect.
Group or individual activities requiring little physical exertion are not counted toward the accumulation of Energy Cubes. These include passive video games, card or board games, water games, playing with dolls, playing with trucks, static games in the sandbox, etc.
The activity must be done with the participating child in order to count as an Energy Cube collecting activity. Each immediate family member earns 1 energy cube for every 15 minutes of physical activity performed with the child.
Please note: Trainers, sports team members, extended family members (uncles, aunts, godfathers, godmothers, etc.), pets (!) and others cannot accumulate Energy Cubes. They are, however, welcome to move to encourage children in their challenge.
Hard versions of the Child Logbook will be sent directly (while supplies last) to participating childcares, which will then be in charge of distributing them to the kids. For kids without a hard copy of the logbook, a condensed version is available in the Toolbox section of our website. Childcare centres and parents can download the logbook and print it out.
The Child logbook is used for activities done at home. Energy Cubes accumulated at the childcare centre are compiled on the group leader’s tally sheet. On a weekly basis, the group leader adds up the Energy Cubes accumulated by their group (children’s logbooks) and sends the totals to the challenge leader for the Energy Cubes Challenge at the childcare centre.
Calculating the average number of Energy Cubes per child makes it possible to compare results between participating daycares—which regularly compile their results online using the same system—regardless of the number of children in the childcare centre.
Average number of Cubes per child:
Total number of Cubes accumulated by your childcare centre ÷ Total number of children in your childcare centre
10 daycare centers will be randomly selected from all participating establishments.
Winners will be determined by a random draw, as follows:
| Average number of Energy Cubes per child | Entries |
| 38 to 75 Energy Cubes | 1 chance |
| 76 to 149 Energy Cubes | 2 chances |
| 150 Energy Cubes and more | 3 chances |
Winning childcare centers will receive a set of active equipment to encourage physical activity and motor skills in children.
We rely on the honesty of those in charge at each daycare to communicate their results in a fair and impartial way. Should there be any doubt, the organizers of the Grand défi could ask for a verification in due form.
