Collection: Food & Nutrition
Artificial Colours Kit
The brightest things on the shelf are often the ones children reach for first. This kit explores what makes food so vividly coloured, why some of those dyes are restricted overseas, and how to find them on an Australian label together.
With activities designed to be explored together, it turns an everyday topic into a meaningful family moment — written in the gentle, educational style of Raising Noble: no complicated rules and no fear-based messaging, just honest, practical guidance that builds understanding.
- Instant download
- Thoughtfully designed for families
- Child-friendly presentation
- Includes printable activities
- Learn together, at your own pace
This kit includes
- Presentation (PPTX)
- Presentation (PDF)
- Activity 1 (PDF)
- Activity 2 (PDF)
- Parent and Carer Guide (PDF)
- Viewing Guide (PDF)
More information on what is inside
- Presentation (PPTX)
- Designed for viewing together on a TV, computer or tablet.
- Presentation (PDF)
- An easy-to-view alternative to the PowerPoint, which opens on anything.
- Printable activities
- Two hands-on activities that reinforce what you have just watched.
- Parent & Carer Guide
- Background information, conversation prompts and practical tips.
- Viewing Guide
- Simple tips to help you get started.
How to use your kit
- Open the email with your Raising Noble order and follow the link to your library.
- Download the kit as a ZIP file.
- Unzip the file.
- Read your Viewing Guide and Parent & Carer Guide.
- Watch the presentation together, as a PowerPoint or a PDF.
- Talk through the ideas and the questions.
- Print and complete the activities together.
- Keep the conversation going by looking for ways to bring what you have learned into everyday family life.
What you'll learn
- What the numbers mean
- Reading 102, 110, 129 and the rest of the additive code
- Why food is coloured at all
- What the colour is doing for the manufacturer, not for the eater
- The evidence on behaviour
- What the Southampton study found, and what it did not
- A colour hunt
- A supermarket activity that turns the additive code into a game
Simple & engaging
Written in the gentle, educational style of Raising Noble, so learning stays simple, warm and genuinely interesting.
Fact over fear
No complicated rules and no fear-based messaging. Honest, practical guidance that builds understanding rather than alarm.
Learn, then do
Reflection exercises and activities that bring a family closer while teaching something that carries into everyday life.
Time well spent
More Than Just Family Time
A kit is not a worksheet to get through. It is an hour where everyone is pointed at the same thing, and the questions come from the children rather than the adults.
Read the guide first, watch the presentation together, then let the conversation go where it goes. The activities are there for afterwards, not as homework.
Yours to keep
Tools & Memories to Keep
Downloaded once, printed as often as you like, and revisited whenever a child is ready for it again.
Presentation (PPTX)
Presentation
Activity 1
Activity 2
Parent and Carer Guide
Viewing Guide
What Families Are Saying
The kits gave us a gentle way to start conversations we had been putting off.
Simple, thoughtful and easy to bring into an ordinary afternoon.
The prompts helped us listen more and lecture less.
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