About Us:
FoodPlay Productions is an Emmy Award-winning nutrition education company which creates fun-fun-filled tools, resources, and programs to make nutrition come alive for children across the country. Founded in 1982 by Barbara Storper, MS, RDN, a leader in the field of children’s nutrition, FoodPlay’s shows, educational resources and media campaigns have earned a host of national awards, outstanding evaluations, and rave reviews for their innovation and effectiveness improving the nutrition and health habits of the nation’s youth.
FoodPlay Productions’ programs and resources have been created under sponsorship by the US Department of Agriculture, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation, and Departments of Public Health and Education throughout the country. We collaborate with school districts, government agencies, corporate partners, and community organizations to create customized programs that address the unique and diverse needs of population groups in order to trigger school-wide excitement, engaging stakeholders to work together to create healthy school environments with access to healthy food for all.
New This Year:
Greetings! This year we’re excited to launch our new strategy – we want to provide YOU with the tools and resources to make nutrition come alive in your schools and communities! After over 30 years of bringing our award-winning FOODPLAY school-wide assembly programs across the country, we wanted to offer more affordable programs that inspire student participation, and resources that you can use throughout the year in any setting.
It’s as Easy as One, Two, Three:
1.This year’s program features ToBe Fit, The Juggling Nutrition Magician Show, a fun-filled educational presentation geared for smaller audiences of Pre-K to 5th grade children. Featuring the power of live theater, juggling, music, magic, and audience participation, programs come complete with comprehensive Follow-Up Resource Kits to extend the lessons throughout the year in class, cafeteria, and at home. ToBe Fit engages, inspires, motivates, and educates kids, empowering them with the skills needed to take charge of growing up healthy, active, and fit.
2. To put YOU in the driver’s seat, check out our STORE – where we’ve created a host of fun-filled, standards-based resources that make it easy for you to teach nutrition and motivate kids to make choices that are good for their health and the health of the planet. Whether you’re a school food service professional, nurse, teacher, parent, administrator, or community member, we hope these resources will help you grow a culture of health and wellness at your school.
Our new video series features fun-filled, bite-size videos showcasing the best of FOODPLAY -– with short, action-packed lessons covering the major nutrition and physical activity issues affecting today’s youth. Featuring colorful characters, live action, splashes of animation, and awesome feats of juggling, music, magic, and audience participation, these videos make it easy and exciting to bring nutrition into the classroom, cafeteria, or home. They’re also great to share with families – just put them on your website or social media pages, and parents and kids can watch them together. Complete with standards-based lessons, activities and reproducible activity sheets, our video kits are low-cost ways for the whole school to teach nutrition and empower kids with the skills needed to take charge of growing up healthy and fit.
Check out our other resources such as our popular 5-a-Day Fruit and Veggie Tracker Bands – which help kids eat more fruits and veggies throughout their day; and Get Up and Play Tracker Bands, encouraging kids to leave the screen and have fun moving their bodies.
These fun tools can be co-branded with your logo or messaging, and are great fundraisers or promo items to get the healthy eating message from school to home to community.
3. Workshops, Trainings, and Keynote Conference Presentations!
Bring joy back to your work and make deeper impact with your students and staff!
With over 10 national awards, rave reviews from thousands of schools, and outstanding evaluations showing dramatic improvements in eating and physical activity habits, we want to share our experience with you – and help you and your staff inspire kids and colleagues in effective strategies to make nutrition come alive!
Using innovative techniques from nutrition education and the arts, we’d like to help you motivate students and teachers toward healthy habits; promote your food, health, and wellness initiatives; gather support for your programs and get stakeholders on board to work together to create a culture of health in your school and throughout your communities. Check out our “Creativity Bootcamp: Turning Kids on to Healthy Habits!” where we introduce a host of innovative strategies including theater arts, puppetry, storytelling, props, cooking, and communication skills to help educators, nutritionists, foodservice, and health professionals bring joy to their work and make deeper impact with their students…in a spirit of fun and celebration!
Our kids learned more in one hour of FOODPLAY than a whole year of health classes!”
—Ann Dryden, Principal, Veterans Memorial School, Springfield MA
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FoodPlay‘s live theater show programs have reached over five million schoolchildren across the country and have been widely covered in the national media for their colorful approach making nutrition come alive for kids!
We also work with public and private partners (school districts, corporations, foundations, and government agencies) to create regional and national tours, media campaigns, video/DVD kits, books, curricula, and educational materials to promote healthy habits in schools, homes, and communities.
FoodPlay Productions’ programs have been created under sponsorship by the US Department of Agriculture, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation, and departments of public health and education throughout the country.
We do it all for you!
Our comprehensive nutrition education programs combine dynamic live theater performances with fun-filled research-based educational materials to trigger school-wide excitement around creating healthy schools and healthy communities.
Kick Off School Wellness and Obesity Prevention Programs!
We specialize in programs that help schools create effective school wellness policies and get everyone on board and excited to work together to create healthy school environments.
Research-Based with Proven Results!
USDA- and CDC-sponsored evaluations showed dramatic improvements in students’ nutrition and health knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors, with over 75% of children reporting dramatic improvements in their eating and exercise habits following the FOODPLAY experience. Over 90% of school evaluations rate the FOODPLAY program as “excellent!” with many saying it was the BEST program they’ve ever had! More…
Our students loved FOODPLAY on Monday! The staff thought it was great too. We have been doing good nutrition activities all week and it seems the kids are really getting it. I will definitely recommend the program to others. Thanks again.
—Patricia K. Niemitz RN, BSN, MEd, Certified School Nurse, Carlisle, PA (2/25/09)
Kids are having so much fun, they don’t realize how much they’re learning!
Our programs deliver the best in theater arts — amazing feats of juggling, colorful characters, motivating messages, music, dance, magic, and audience participation – using the power of live theater to inspire, educate, empower, and entertain! More…
Meets National and State Standards!
All programs come with follow-up school resource kits featuring standards-based nutrition education materials for everyone involved – children, parents, teachers, school food service/nutrition services, health staff, and the media. These materials help integrate nutrition into core curriculum areas and extend the nutrition and health messages all year long.
Media Magnet!
Everywhere FoodPlay goes, the media is sure to follow! Bringing FoodPlay programs to your area is a great way to generate positive visibility for your programs and sponsors. FoodPlay has been featured nationally on ABC’s The Health Show and Diet in Danger, CBS’s Inside Edition, CNN’s On the Menu, Nickelodeon’s Total Panic, and PBS’s Body Watch. More…
Bring FoodPlay programs to your schools and special events, and watch your kids take charge of growing up healthy and fit!
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