Description: Food & Fun Afterschool Curriculum
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Change is good! Especially when small, relatively simple changes can have a big impact on health. Foodandfun.org is an interactive website geared towards getting out-of-school time staff and parents excited about promoting physical activity and nutrition by creating healthy environments for themselves and their children. Everyone interested in making healthy changes should have access to information and resources that will help them in the process. That is why all of the materials you will find on foodandfu
Learn In the Learn section, program staff, parents, and children can access the Food & Fun After School curriculum and materials, the Food Fun & Family handbook, and browse links to a variety of other useful outside resources on nutrition and physical activity. Food & Fun After school includes 11 units to help programs infuse healthy snacks and recipes, physically active games, and creative learning activities into regular program schedules.
Change In the Change section, section, staff will find a variety of planning tools, assessments, and materials that help promote nutrition and physical activity in out-of-school settings. These tools can help programs make Food and Fun lesson plans, set goals, assess programs, and promote sustainability. Tools are also available for parents to assess and promote healthy changes in their own home! Many of these materials have been developed as part of the Harvard School of Public Health Prevention Research C