Activities | Computer Games on Healthy Eating/Active Living | Videos
Activities
FitFun Game Guide, developed by the Redwood City School District Wellness committee, is a physical activity resource for K-5 classroom teachers.
15 Simple Games to Get Kids Moving produced by Fitness Fun Forever by the Florida Department of Education.
Fruit and Vegetable Fun for your kids includes coloring pages you can print out and color, tools to track your intake of fruits and vegetables, information about produce department tour in supermarkets, and others resources. Information for children 2-7 and K-6 on this site.
BAM! Body and Mind is an interactive website for youth with links to nutrition, physical activity, safety, your body, diseases, and more.
Healthy Hearts is full of fun learning activities about cardiovascular health. Kids can find out more about physical activity, nutrition, and tobacco use while completing interactive learning games, quizzes, writing activities and math problems, and more! Kids can earn points and win prizes for participating.
Power of Choice was developed by Health and Human Services' Food and Drug Administration and USDA's Food and Nutrition Service. It is intended for after-school program leaders working with young adolescents. Everything you need to know is in the Leaders' Guide, including most activity materials. It's full of quick, simple things to do with kids; many activities take little or no pre-planning. A CD containing 10 interactive sessions based on six posters.
Get active! Create your own personalized fitness calendar. Wan to learn more about a certain activity? Not sure of how to play or what gear you'll need? Look no further — it's all right here.
Order Max's Magical Delivery: Fit for Kids online. This fun, interactive DVD is targeted to children ages 5-9 and their families. The DVD offers suggestions to try to eat five fruits and vegetables a day, how to move away from TV and computer screens, and find fun ways to be more physically active in and outside. There is a separate section for parents.
Computer Games on Healthy Eating/Active Living
*Encourage youth not to stay on the computer for too long! Make sure they get outside and play today!
Nflrush has games for youth in middle/elementary school, contests, polls and more.
Nutrition Café has three games: Nutrition Sleuth (use clues to find the missing nutrient), Grab a Grape (asks questions that you have to answer), and Have-a-bite café (lets you build a meal from their menu and determines the nutrition information for that meal).
Videos
Watch a video created by youth from epa.net on the features of the GHSMC Task Force youth space website.
Watch a video of the American Heart Association’s Better Fats Sisters. These gals are charmers in their own way – they look out for you and your heart. The sisters love it when you cook with the foods they're in, and they've got lots of great tips to share.
American Heart Assocation also produced a video of the Bad Fats Brothers. It’s time to learn which fats are better for you. Take the fat course 101, learn to live fat-sensibly, use the Fats Translator to calculate daily calories and fat recommendations for you, consumer FAQ, and more.
The Get Fit EPA Community Reporters cover sports, dance, and other activities so that you can see how your neighbors, friends, and family are staying fit and healthy.
You are the Food System video is a documentary produced by East Palo Alto Youth Reporters that documents food system change in East Palo Alto.
South L.A. is a "food desert," with few supermarkets and a lot of land in between them. The South Central Diet is a video that chronicles the extraordinary efforts of Healthy Eating Active Communities (HEAC) student Lae Schmidt to obtain the quality and variety of fruits and vegetables she desires.
Watch videos on how to prepare healthy meals and snacks.