SlogansHealth and hygiene slogans
For school health weeks, Global Handwashing Day (15 October) and posters near the wash basin and the canteen. These are general good-habit reminders, not medical advice.
English
Wash your hands. It takes twenty seconds and saves many sick days.
Soap is cheap. Use it.
Clean hands before every meal.
Eat fresh, eat home, eat on time.
More fruit, less fizz.
Drink clean water, and plenty of it.
Cover your cough. Share your notes, not your cold.
Sleep is not laziness. It is maintenance.
Play outside. Your body was built to move.
Cut your nails, wash your hands, brush your teeth: small habits, strong child.
Health is the first prize. Guard it.
A clean lunch box is a happy lunch box.
Soap first, snack second.
Wet, soap, scrub, rinse, dry.
Cover your cough. Share your smile.
Short nails, clean hands, ready for lunch.
Play outside. Sleep on time. Feel the difference.
A fruit in the tiffin is a friend at break.
हिन्दी
हाथ धोना है ज़रूरी, बीमारी से रहेगी दूरी।
खाने से पहले, शौच के बाद: साबुन से हाथ धोना रखो याद।
घर का खाना, सेहत का खज़ाना।
सुबह की सैर, दिन भर की ख़ैर।
फल सब्ज़ी खाओ, सेहत बनाओ।
खाँसते समय मुँह ढकें, दूसरों का भी ख्याल रखें।
नाखून काटो, दाँत चमकाओ, रोज़ नहाओ, स्वस्थ कहलाओ।
पूरी नींद, पूरा दिन।
खेलोगे कूदोगे, तो तंदुरुस्त रहोगे।
पहले साबुन, फिर खाना, यही नियम अपनाना।
पानी उबला या छना पियो, बोतल अपनी साथ रखो।
नाख़ून छोटे, हाथ साफ़, सेहत रहेगी अपने साथ।
टिफ़िन में एक फल ज़रूर, सुस्ती भागे कोसों दूर।
In common use (not written by us)
साफ़ पानी, स्वस्थ ज़िंदगानी।
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Where these slogans belong
Hygiene is a matter of habit, and habits are formed at particular places: the wash basin, the canteen door, the water cooler, the tiffin table, the playground tap. Put one slogan at each place, about the habit that belongs there. A whole chart of health rules on the classroom wall is read once. A single line at the tap is read before every meal.
Write your own
Keep to simple, everyday habits that every textbook agrees on: wash hands with soap before eating and after the toilet, cover your mouth when coughing, drink clean water, keep nails short, eat fresh food, sleep on time, play outside. Turn the habit into a rhyme or a rule of three. Children remember "Wet, soap, rinse" far better than a sentence.
- English pairs: clean and seen, soap and hope, wash and dash, germ and firm, health and wealth.
- Hindi pairs: सफ़ाई and दवाई, हाथ and साथ, स्वस्थ and मस्त, धोओ and खोओ, आदत and सेहत.
A note on what slogans cannot say
These slogans are general good-habit reminders. A slogan must not promise that a habit prevents or cures any disease, name medicines, or give advice on illness. For anything about sickness, vaccines or treatment, the school nurse, a doctor or the health department's own posters are the right source.
Ideas for a health week
- A handwashing song of your own, sung at the taps before lunch.
- A "clean nails Monday" check done by class monitors, with stars and no scolding.
- A tiffin day when everyone brings one fruit.
Using these slogans
- Place the slogan where the habit happens: at the tap, the canteen door, the water cooler.