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Veggies Got Talent! A Fun-Filled Activity Kit with Coloring Sheets, Rhymin’ Beats, and Recipes for Tasty Treats!
$19.95 – $39.95
Everything you need to get kids excited to eat their veggies!
This 100 page kit features printables with 30 vegetables, each with their own coloring sheet, playful rhymes, name in 6 languages, nutritional value, growing season, fun facts, and easy, kid-friendly recipes for tasty ways to prepare them. Plus, a host of fun, hands-on activities to integrate nutrition into core subject areas, and a way for kids to put on their own “Veggies Got Talent Show!”
“It’s like a vegetable version of Dr. Seuss, but more fun ‘cause kids get to color, cook, eat…and read!”
–Milania Macharelli, 5th Grader, Southington, CT
“This is by far the most unique, creative, and interactive way I’ve seen to engage children in healthy eating!”
—Peyton Dutka, Nutrition Department, University of Massachusetts
Special Prices to Kick Off the New School Year!!!
Spiral-Bound Activity Kit – $29.95 (includes free shipping)*
Activity Kit PDF Download – For one individual, one classroom, or family: $19.95
Activity Kit PDF Download – For each school: $39.95*
*Each school order provides the rights to reproduce the pages for one school. Please order the number of kits you need for the number of schools you work with. Feel free to contact us for discounts on bulk orders. Order here or email us with your purchase order: info@foodplay.com
Veggies Got Talent! A Fun-Filled Activity Kit
with Coloring Sheets, Rhymin’ Beats, Tasty Treats!
Ideal for food, nutrition, and health educators, school food service, SNAP-Ed, EFNEP, farmer’s markets, childcare centers, school gardens, farm-to-school programs, cooking classes, health centers, youth organizations, home schoolers, teachers, parents, and caregivers!
Did you know that half the children in this country don’t even eat one vegetable a day? That while schools are serving vegetables as part of every school lunch, they’re often tossed aside and thrown away? Well, the vegetables are sick and tired of living their lives in vain. So, they got together and created Veggies Got Talent! – a totally fun and inspiring kit to help veggies get in front of the eyeballs and tastebuds of today’s youth!
Featuring printables with 30 friendly vegetables, each with their own coloring sheet, playful rhymes, name in 6 languages, nutritional value, growing season, fun facts, and low-cost, kid-friendly recipes for tasty ways to prepare them. 100 reproducible pages chock-full of hands-on activities guaranteed to help kids make friends with vegetables!
Hand out a coloring sheet with its playful rhymes, fun facts, and recipes every time you serve up each vegetable, and watch kids give it a try! Plus, share the recipes with parents and caregivers. Then, integrate nutrition into core subjects with hands-on activities from “The Veggies Have Lost Their Vowels!” to “Find Us Growing in the Garden!”
Kids can even put on their own “Veggies Got Talent! Show” to promote veggies to their peers and families in an inspiring performance guaranteed to increase children’s preferences for vegetables!
Use “Veggies Got Talent: A Fun-Filled Activity Kit” to:
- Get kids to LOVE their veggies!
- Promote the veggies you’re serving every day at home or at school!
- Give teachers fun, easy, reproducible activities to connect cafeteria with classroom learning!
- Share the recipes and fun facts with parents on your website, newsletter, or as handouts.
- Connect your Farm to School, School Garden, Salad Bar, Cooking, and Wellness Programs with dynamic nutrition education!
- Promote the positive things you’re doing at school and get the whole community together to celebrate healthy foods!
- And if you feel like being super-creative, have kids put on their own “Veggies Got Talent! Show” for their peers and families or as a cool fund-raiser celebrating Mother Nature!
Plus, a host of fun activities to integrate nutrition into core subject areas including:
- Top 10 Tips to Eat Your Veggies! (Parent Handout)
- My Veggie Tracker (Kids post on fridge)
- Find Us Growing in the Garden? (Science)
- The Veggies Have Lost Their Vowels, Can You Help Them? (Language Arts)
- Eat a Veggie Rainbow! (Health and Art)
“I love this book, it’s very easy to use, and as the Student Engagement Manager for my whole district, I give out the coloring sheets when talking about the importance of eating school breakfast and lunch. Elementary schools would love this!” —Tory Gibson, Nutrition Services District, Horry County Schools, SC
“Veggies Got Talent!” is a great resource for bringing the fun to children in nutrition education!”
–Cheron Copeland, NDTS CNC, Society of Nutrition Education and Behavior, Student Division Co-Chair
“This resource is easy to facilitate, very interactive, creative and fun! The recipes and translations of the vegetable names provide a multicultural lens for nutrition education!”
–Julie Andrews-Scott, MA, Curriculum Development Specialist, San Francisco, CA