School Programs
Let's Work Together to Help Kids Grow Up Healthy, Happy, and Fit!
Attention:
School Food Service
PTO’s and Cultural Enrichment Representatives
School Nurses and Wellness Teams
Physical Education and Health Teachers
Teachers, Principals and Administrators
Community Partners
Bring our Shows, Programs, and Resources to your Schools to:
- Make good eating and active living…GREAT FUN!
- Dramatically improve children’s eating and physical activity habits!
- Help kids see through media messages to make choices that are good for their health and the health of the planet!
- Put the spotlight on your school nutrition programs and wellness initiatives!
- Inspire students to go for the healthy foods served!
- Teach nutrition throughout the year with our innovative resources!
- Bring the power of fun-filled live theater to turn kids on to healthy habits!
Pick and Choose What’s Right for You!
FoodPlay Shows and School Assembly Programs
Make Nutrition Come Alive and Put the Spotlight on School Nutrition! Turn kids on to healthy eating and active living with our fun-filled ToBe Fit, The Juggling Nutrition Magician Show – Live In-Person or Livestream! Featuring the power of live theater, amazing feats of juggling, music, magic, and audience participation, our shows are so much fun, kids don’t realize how much they’re learning! Program comes complete with performance, a comprehensive Follow-Up Activity Kit with everything needed for a whole unit on nutrition, plus a Publicity Packet and handouts for the whole family to keep the messages alive in class and at home throughout the year!
FoodPlay Family Fun Nights
Turn kids and their families on to healthy eating and active living! In one magical family night or special event featuring live theater, amazing feats of juggling, music, magic, and audience participation, kids and parents will learn everything they need to jump-start healthy eating and active living. Plus, they’ll have lots of fun in the process! Bring this exciting family night to your school or community event, and watch kids and their families take charge of growing up healthy and fit.
Food•Play•Shops
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 with fruits and veggies or balanced meals using MyPlate as a guide! Easy to follow, fun to make, and even more fun to eat, these healthy snacks and meals can become the “go-to” when kids are hungry!
We can create the ideal program to fit the needs of your community. 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 nutrition, health and wellness, 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!
Residencies
Veggies Got Talent! This fun-filled and inspiring STEAM Residency helps students discover how to see through media messages, improve their eating habits, research, write, create, and perform their own shows to celebrate healthy habits! Barbara Storper, MS, RD, a national leader in children’s nutrition and creator of all FoodPlay shows and resources – is excited to come to your schools and work with your students in a series of fun-filled, interactive workshops. Contact us for more information!
Fun-Filled Video Packages
Teach nutrition throughout the year using FoodPlay’s special brand of live theater nutrition education! From FOODPLAY Video Shorts – a whole unit on nutrition delivered in 14 bite-size videos to FOODPLAY’s Video Story Book where our popular children’s book comes alive to help kids get off the junk food track and make healthy eating, a fun-filled fresh adventure!
Activity Guidebooks to Teach Nutrition and Health
Provides teachers with everything they need to teach nutrition, health, and media literacy throughout the year including standards-based lesson plans, printable activity sheets, background information, and handouts
for the whole family.
Check out our:
Fruit & Veggie Activity Kit
Hands-On Health: The Activity Guidebook for Working with Teens
MyPlate Activity Kit
Hands-on Tools to help kids make healthy choices!
Kids LOVE our 5-A-Day Fruit +Veggie Tracker Bands to help them go for fruits and veggies throughout their day! Kids put 5 colorful bands on one wrist, and every time they eat a fruit or veggie, they get to move a band to the other wrist. The bands remind them throughout their day to strive for five fruits and veggies a day! Kits include 5 colorful bands, bookmark with health tips and tracker log.
Our Get Up and Play for 1 Hour a Day! Tracker Bands help remind students to take a break from the screen and have fun moving their bodies! Kids put 6 bands on one wrist, and every time they do 10 minutes of physical activity, they get to move a band to the other wrist. The bands remind them throughout their day to have fun taking breaks and moving their bodies! Kit includes 6 colorful bands, bookmark with fitness tips, tracker log, and printable chart.
We can even add your logo or messaging to the kits!
PLUS – Check out our new offerings:
Field Trip to the Kitchen! A DIY Activity Kit!
A Do-It-Yourself Guide for School Food Service to lead a Fun-Filled Behind the Scenes Tour!
Attention School Food Service Directors and Staff: Put the Spotlight on your staff and what you do in this fun-filled experience where you invite classes for a behind-the-scenes tour of your kitchen. Using this step-by-step Kit, you’ll have everything you need for a fantastic field trip where kids get to meet your staff and see how their meals are made. In the process, they’ll learn all about why it’s important to eat the healthy foods you’re serving, as they get to know how hard you work putting healthy meals on their tables!
COMING SOON!
