Here’s today’s bite-sized Hands-On Nutrition strategy! Strategy #2: Make “Read It Before You Eat It!” your family’s and classrooms’s snack time slogan! So that you’re not surprised by what’s inside, teach kids to read the Ingredient and Nutrition Facts labels to find out what’s really in the food they’re choosing. Make a matching game at […]
National Nutrition Month: Hands-On Nutrition
March is National Nutrition Month, and here at FoodPlay, we’re pleased to take this opportunity to launch a new, recurring feature, Hands-On Nutrition with Barbara Storper, MS, RD. Throughout the month, I’ll be sharing strategies for turning kids on to healthy eating and active living, offered up in quick & easy, bite-sized morsels! Strategy #1: […]
New Fun Tools to celebrate National Nutrition Month
To help make good eating great fun all year long, but especially for March, National Nutrition Month, check out these 5 new resources (hot off the press!) and ways to use them. 1. Fruit + Veggie Tracker Bands Have a contest with these fun Tracker Bands! Kids start each morning with 5 bands on their […]