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YOUNGER KIDS NUTRITION LINKS
Ages 3-7
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HB4Life: A website promoting healthy behavior and nutrition for children and teenagers.
Amazing Wheat: This website familiarizes kids with the wonderful world of wheat through various recipes, games and lessons.
Cool Food Planet: Packed with tips, quizzes and activities, this engaging site helps kids learn about, and maintain, healthy eating habits.
Dole Super Kids: This
website is a sure bet to make any kid excited about healthy eating and
living. This site is loaded with online games, ideas for physical
activities, creative characters and tasty, healthy recipes.
Food Champs: This
website targets children between the ages of 2 and 8 with games,
recipes and activities that promote produce consumption and a healthy
lifestyle.
Food Fun: This
website serves as a wonderful starting point for young kids being
introduced to fruits and vegetables. Through easy to read passages and
engaging activities, kids are familiarized with these healthy foods and
are taught about their benefits.
Kid’s World: This website provides kids with information on nutrition, food labels, food safety, games and more.
My Pyramid for Kids:
This website is a comprehensive resource to introduce kids to a healthy
lifestyle. Content includes an introduction to the recommended food
pyramid as well as numerous engaging activities to get kids acquainted
with the pyramid and a hearty lifestyle.
Nibble: This website contains information on grains, dairy and other staple food groups, nutrition tips, health advice and more.
School Meals: This
site provides parents with information on child nutrition programs such
as the National school lunch and breakfast meal programs, after school
snacks and more.
Small Step: This
website introduces kids to many foods and explains to them the benefits
of eating them. With challenges, games and activities, kids can have
fun testing and applying what they learned by themselves or with a
friend.
US Apple: This
entire site is dedicated to two things: kids and apples. Kids are able
to learn about the benefits of eating apples and enjoy apple-related
activities and reading passages.
Zero to Three: This site is dedicated to providing new parents with information that will help them raise healthy infants and toddlers.
Super Star Nutrition for Kids:
Sponsored by the Oregon Department of Education, this site features a
variety of printable activity sheets, each offered in five different
languages.
Watermelon Coloring Books:
Run by the National Watermelon Promotion Board, this website offers
downloadable activity and coloring books for younger children.
Favorite Snacks Memory Game:
This memory game, which requires a flash player to play correctly, has
three levels of difficulty and asks kids to match friends with a
healthy snack.
FSA Coloring Pages: Sponsored by the USDA Farm Service Agency, this site offers printable coloring pages and coloring books.
WIC Preschool Activity Sheets: This site sponsored by WIC provides printable activity sheets designed for two to four year olds.
Kids World Nutrition Coloring Book:
Sponsored by the North Carolina Department of Agriculture &
Consumer Services, this site allows kids to use an interactive
paintbrush and color pages online about nutrition.
Juice Moose Matching Game: This game, which requires Java to function correctly, asks kids to match AJ and his friends.
Super Crew Coloring Pages: Printable coloring and activity pages are offered on this website.
Games & Puzzles to Print and Play:
Sponsored by the Montana Wheat and Barley Committee, this page offers a
variety of printable games and puzzles, including connect the dots and
coloring.
Food Fun from Apples to Zucchini:
Provided by the University of Illinois Extension, this site offers
games and coloring that can be played online or printed out for later
use.
Fruit & Veggie Color Champions:
Sponsored by the Produce for a Better Health Foundation, this site
offers kids an interactive guide and provided games and coloring pages
for ages 2 to 5 and 6 to 8.
Milk the Cow:
This fun interactive game asks children to virtually milk the cow as
fast as possible by clicking on cows in a race against the clock.
Who Eats What?: Kids are asked to match the animal to the type of food it eats (for example, which animals eat meat, fish, etc) on this site.
My Pyramid Blast Off Game:
Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, this site provides an
interactive game where kids have to fuel their rocket with healthy
foods and physical activity.
Just for Kids- Fun Food Groups: Sponsored by The Hospital for Sick Children, this site teaches kids about foods as they help kids unpack grocery bags.
Plant Parts Salad: The Howard Hughes Medical Institute runs this site which allows kids to build a salad using the correct parts of plants.
Halloween Candy Game: This
fun interactive game by Nemours KidsHealth.org has children place candy
into a pumpkin’s mouth to count up a day’s worth of calories.
Nutrition Café:
These interactive games by the Pacific Science Center, which require
Flash to play, offer several opportunities for kids to learn about
nutrition.
CoolFood for Kidz: This website provides a variety of fun, interactive games for kids on nutrition, building healthy habits, eating out and more.
Kids World Nutrition: This site provides games, coloring pages, activities and more, all with a focus on nutrition.
Puzzle Page USA Pears: Sponsored by USA Pears, this site offers a virtual, interactive jigsaw puzzle for kids to complete.
Meet the Taste Buddies:
Run by the American Institute for Cancer Research, this fun site
provides interactive games where kids get to meet characters who teach
them about nutrition.
Strawberryville Puzzle Activity: This site offers four interactive puzzles for kids having to do with strawberries and their nutritional value.
Bad Fat Brothers:
Sponsored by the American Heart Association, this site features two
animated brothers who teach kids about the bad fats (trans and sat).
Brain POP Nutrition: This site features movies, interactive games, and quizzes all about nutrition.
Fun Healthy Food Games for Kids: This game features Chef Solus, who guides kids through a Food Pyramid Adventure. Requires free sign-up to play.
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