Your Hero Adventure Starts Now! 🥕✨

Published on Thursday, 13 November 2025 at 4:22:09 PM

WA primary students, your hero adventure starts now! The Healthy Heroes Quest 2025 is officially open!

Create a fruit or veggie hero in just ONE sentence. Give them powers inspired by eating 2 fruit and 5 veggies daily, and send them on a tiny adventure!

Here are some heroes already on the move:

  • 🌀 Tomato Tornado spun the veggies into a swirling salad storm to save lunchtime from boredom.

  • 🥦 Captain Broccoli puffed out his chest and lifted the lunchbox lid to save the squashed strawberries trapped inside.

How to Enter

  1. Create a fruit or veggie hero in ONE imaginative sentence.

  2. Include their powers inspired by healthy eating — your Go for 2 & 5 superpowers!

  3. Send them on a tiny adventure — heroic, funny, whimsical, or magical.

✨ Every style of hero is welcome!

Submit your mini adventure to competitions@thelitcentre.org.au by Wednesday, 3 December. Include your full name, age, and school.

Prizes & Categories 🏆

Thanks to generous funding from Healthway, we’re giving away three curated book packs, each worth $150, featuring the best of Australian children’s and YA literature.

Categories:
 1️⃣ Most Creative Hero – originality and clever storytelling
 2️⃣ Most Adventurous Hero – daring journeys and clever problem-solving
 3️⃣ Best Use of “Go for 2 & 5” Powers – creative integration of fruit & veggie powers

Eat well. Dream big. Be a Healthy Hero! 🌈

Terms & Conditions of Entry

  1. The Healthy Heroes Quest 2025 (“Competition”) is open to all primary school students in Western Australia.

  2. Entry is free and each student may submit one entry only.

  3. Entries must be submitted by Wednesday, 3 December via email to competitions@thelitcentre.org.au

  4. Each entry must include:

    • The student’s full name
    • Age
    • School name (if applicable)
    • The one-sentence hero adventure

  5. Entries must be original and created by the student. Plagiarised entries will be disqualified.

  6. Judging: Entries will be judged on creativity, adventurousness, and/or creative use of Go for 2 & 5 powers. Judges’ decisions are final.

  7. Prizes:

    • Three curated book packs, each valued at $150
    • Categories: Most Creative Hero, Most Adventurous Hero, Best Use of “Go for 2 & 5” Powers

  8. Winners will be notified by email by Monday, 8 December.

  9. Entries may be published or shared on The Literature Centre and Healthway WA social media or marketing materials, with credit given to the student.

  10. By entering, participants agree to abide by these terms and conditions.

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