Library Programs
Great Programs and Resources to Make Good Eating + Active Living - GREAT FUN!
We LOVE working with libraries! Thank you for all you do to give your children and families a special place to meet, learn, and discover! Partner with us to create the ideal food, nutrition, health, and wellness programs to address the unique needs of your community!
We look forward to bringing our national award-winning shows, fun-filled children’s books, exciting video kits, and popular resources to help you stay connected to your patrons and offer them something extra special, engaging, and life affirming! With kids stuck at home in front of a screen, eating too much of the wrong kinds of foods, and feeling isolated, now is the perfect time to share FoodPlay resources with your community – and give them the gift of Reading and Healthy Eating!
ToBe Fit, The Juggling Nutrition Magician Shows – Live or Live-Stream!
Bring this fun-filled performance to your library either live-stream or live in-person! Featuring the power of live theater, amazing feats of juggling, music, magic, and audience participation, ToBe Fit helps kids take charge of growing up healthy, active, and fit! The program receives rave reviews everywhere it goes, especially from libraries, and is a great way to help children and families learn how to make healthy choices to last a healthy lifetime…all in a spirit of fun and celebration!
Programs come complete with our enchanting performance, publicity packet, follow-up activity kit, children’s book, and handouts for the whole family to keep the messages alive throughout the year!
“ToBe Fit was fabulous! She has a passion for what she does – and it’s all good – nutrition, exercise, and just feeling good about yourself! Both children and adults were enthralled by this fast paced and entertaining show!”
– Carole Mazzarino, Asst. Youth Librarian, Richard Salter Storrs Library, Longmeadow, MA
Food•Play•Shops – Kids and Families Cook Together!
Join us for one fun-filled session or a series that we create just for you – for your children, teens, seniors, or families to come together to learn how to create easy, nutritious and delicious snacks and meals – either live in-person or virtual! Whether you’d like to connect food and cooking to culinary literacy, fairy tales, ethnic food traditions, science and math, or health and wellness, contact us to create the perfect program for your unique community!
Plus, kids get to create and bring back home their own snack recipe booklet filled with colorful snack recipe cards and a host of handouts to continue to make good eating – GREAT FUN at home!
Emmy Award-Winning Author Visits
Bring national award-winning author, nutritionist, playwright, and creator of all FoodPlay books, shows, videos, and resources, Barbara Storper, MS, RD, a national leader in children’s nutrition to help children and families take charge of growing healthy, happy, and fit! Ideal for children and families, this popular speaker will help make good eating and active living – great fun and she’ll even teach everyone how to juggle! We’ll work with you to create the perfect presentation for your community!
Our Popular Children’s Book: Janey Junkfood's Fresh Adventure!
Celebrate Reading and Healthy Eating with our popular children’s book: Janey Junkfood’s Fresh Adventure!
In a colorful scrapbook-style format, kids learn how to get off the junk food track and make healthy eating a fun-filled fresh adventure! Kids follow Janey in her quest to make the national junior juggling team and discover the missing ingredient to her juggling success—healthy food choices.
This fun-filled, highly illustrated book with interactive tools is an indispensable resource to help turn kids see through media messages and make healthy choices. Includes 16 recipe cards for fruit and veggie snacks kids love to make and eat! Based on our Emmy Award-Winning TV Special, Janey Junkfood’s Fresh Adventure!
FoodPlay Video Story Book: Janey Junkfood’s Fresh Adventure!
Just send out a link to your families – and children can read along with this fun-filled video series of our popular children’s book. Performed by ToBe Fit, this video package takes readers on an exciting audiovisual experience, following the adventures of Janey who’s trying to make the National Junior Juggling Team, but keeps dropping the balls. Her best friend, ToBe Fit becomes an Ace Food Detective, discovering the missing ingredient to Janey’s success – healthy eating habits.
Based on our Emmy Award-winning TV Special, this engaging 4-part series (6 minutes each) makes good eating – great fun!
Fun Resources and Give-Aways for Children and Families
Create your own Fun FoodPlay Activity Kit to share with your families!
Several libraries have given or loaned out a host of our fun resources to help their children and families make healthy choices. Pick and choose what’s right for you:
Janey Junkfood’s Fresh Adventure! Children’s Book
Our popular children’s book helps kids get off the junk food track and make healthy eating, a fun-filled fresh adventure!
Tickets to Fresh Adventures! Snack Recipe Card Set
16 fun snack recipe cards for fruit and veggie snacks that kids love to make and eat!
5-A-Day Fruit + Veggie Tracker Bands – Help kids eat more fruits and veggies with this fun kit that includes a bookmark with health tips, tracker log, and 5 colorful wrist bands. Kids put 5 bands on one wrist, and every time they eat a fruit or vegetable, they get to move a band to the other wrist. The bands are a hands-on way to remind kids throughout their day to go for five fruits and veggies and they can record their progress on the bookmark log.
Get Up and Play! Tracker Bands – Use this kit to help remind to get up and play for at least one hour a day! Kids put 6 colorful bands on their left wrist. For every 10 minutes, they’re physically active, they get to move a band to their right wrist. At the end of the day, they can track their progress on the bookmark log! Kit includes: 6 colorful tracker bands, bookmark with fun tips and tracker log.
