FoodPlayShops, Workshops, and More!

FoodPlayShops

Have fun in the kitchen! Through colorful food demonstrations and hands-on participation, kids and/or families learn how to have fun in the kitchen, making delicious and nutritious snacks or balancing their meals using MyPlate as a guide!  Help kids discover how easy it is to prepare healthy foods instead of buying junk food at the store! 

Join us for one fun-filled session or a series that we create just for you – either live in-person or virtual! Whether you’d like to connect food with nutrition, health, culinary literacy, fairy tales, ethnic food traditions, science, or math, contact us to create the perfect program for your unique community!

Plus, kids get their own set of colorful snack recipe cards and families receive a host of handouts with food and health tips to make good eating – GREAT FUN at home!

Learn to Juggle! PlayShops

After a show, our performers can lead exciting juggling workshops, where children and teachers can learn how to juggle! What at first seems magical, when broken down into steps, juggling becomes a metaphor for learning anything new. All you need is practice, and practice makes progress! And, dropping is just part of the fun! 

Scientific studies show that juggling is not only great fun, but it improves focus, concentration, hand-eye coordination, motor skills, balance, even increases brain matter, plus it relieves stress and is a fun physical activity to do alone or in groups. 

“I can do this!” Juggling is a wonderful skill to learn and show off – kids (and adults) find a great sense of accomplishment, they’re amazed when they discover that they can juggle! And, with this new learned skill, they realize that they can do anything, all it takes is practice! 

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Residencies – Veggies Got Talent! 

This fun-filled STEAM residency helps your students discover how to see through media messages and create their own exciting performances to stand up for vegetables!  

Barbara Storper, MS, RD, a national leader in children’s nutrition and Emmy Award-Winning creator of all our FoodPlay shows and resources, is excited to come to your school or community to help kids tap into their creativity, work together in groups, and learn everything they need to know to make healthy eating choices. They’ll learn how to conduct research,  be critical media consumers, and create and present their own advertisements, videos, or skits to promote vegetables to their peers and families.  In the process, they’ll become healthier eaters and perhaps even enthusiastic health advocates!

To learn more about this fun-filled, interactive series of workshops that help classes meet Common Core Standards, while bringing in theater arts to inspire, motivate, and engage.

For More Info and Fun Posters, Download:
Veggies Got Talent! Poster #1
Veggies Got Talent! Poster #2
Veggies Got Talent FoodPlay Bill
Veggies Got Talent Info Sheet

Emmy Award-Winning Author Visits

Making Good Eating and Active Living – GREAT FUN!

Bring Barbara Storper, MS, RD, a national leader in children’s nutrition, to help kids and families take charge of growing healthy, happy, and fit! Barbara is a national award-winning author, nutritionist, playwright, performer, and creator of all FoodPlay shows and resources. This popular speaker will deliver a fun-filled, interactive presentation describing how she creates her books (Janey Junkfood’s Fresh Adventure!), resources, and theater shows, to help kids and families see through media messages in order to make choices that are good for their health and the health of the planet. She’ll help audiences discover easy and practical ways to make good eating and active living great fun, and how to juggle the foods they eat to wind up with a balanced diet.  We’ll work with you to create the perfect presentation for your community!