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How to Order Materials

Schools that sign up for Stepping Up or Making Strides receive a resource library for making healthy changes.

Just need to order materials without signing up a school/program? Order materials by completing the materials order form.

Following most booklet descriptions, click on “sample” to see contents and a sample page.

With every order, while quantities last, we will include FREE a 32 page event planning book, Dairy Dazzling. The booklet was developed thanks to an educational grant provided to HKC by National Dairy Council, Midwest Dairy Council, and Dairy Max. It has fun ideas that connect learning about the importance of calcium with active play!

Available materials include:

Activities for Families

IDEAS for simple eat together, play together family FUN!

Family Challenge Toolkit … $15.00
Over a dozen family tip sheets with simple, fun ideas for eating more fruits and veggies, making breakfast a daily habit, and choosing healthy snacks and drinks. The kit includes a foam frisbee for active play time, preschool ideas and color pages, and two kids activity books, ages 2-6 and 7-11, with word searches, mazes, and MORE! All of these resources have healthy eating and activity messages. Use them to jump start YOUR family with enjoying healthy solutions. Also, the family tip sheets are GREAT for photocopying for health fairs and PTA meetings!


Activities for CLASSROOM, CAFETERIA, HOME and COMMUNITY!

IDEAS for teachable moments with healthy eating and physical activity messages

School Activity Kit … $20.00
56-page booklet with over 100 fun, easy ideas to “build” healthy eating and activity messages into daily environments where kids can practice making healthy choices. Sample

A la Cart- Snack … $15.00
A la Cart- Breakfast … $15.00
Interactive classroom or community program lessons featuring safe food handling, practical culinary skills, tasting, and creative ways of learning math, science, and reading concepts, along with kid and family friendly recipes.
A la Cart- Breakfast Sample
A la Cart- Snack Sample

Food Museum … $15.00
The ultimate environment for learning about healthy eating…the grocery store! Great for field trips to the store, or a “pretend” experience, this 56 page booklet offers quick, simple, FUN lessons for learning about 5 A Day, breakfast, healthy snacks, menu planning and MORE! Sample

Acting Up! …$15.00
It's time to get up and MOVE! Fun 5-10 minute activities that combine math, social studies, health, and language skills with movement are great for use in the classroom to add minutes of physical activity during the school day or in afterschool programs.
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Setting Up for Success … $15.00
Simple to set up, fun to do healthy eating and physical activity display ideas, along with interactive learning activities. These ideas work great for displays and learning centers in the classroom, cafeteria, parent events, and health fairs for starters. Using every day supplies to get you going, set yourself and KIDS up for success in teaching and learning healthy eating and being active messages!
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KIDS ACTIVITY BOOKLETS
Kids have fun with their own activity booklets


Snack Attack, Good Times with Good Foods, Nuts About Nutrition … $10.00 per pkg.
Activity and game workbooks for kids ages 2-6 and 7-11. Along with fun learning, kids take part in key concept activities: fruits and veggies, healthy snacks, MyPyramid, and FUN with movement! Great for classrooms, clinics, afterschool programs, physician offices, and community programs! The booklets come packaged in sets of 12.


PRE-SCHOOL FRUIT AND VEGGIE LESSONS

Integrate taste testing, minutes in motion, and healthy eating lessons with pre-school activities
Berry, Berry Good Lessons…$10.00 Poster…$6.00
Booklet and Poster…$15.00

Quick, simple lessons for childcare providers & Head Start classrooms that emphasis age appropriate learning concepts of color, shape, number, & letters along with fruits and veggies messages, tasting, & movement. Includes home activity pages for reinforcing the message with families. Wall poster provides a visual, fun cue for the lessons.
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HEAR, SEE, and DO FUN Events for KIDS and ADULTS!

Health Fairs, Festivals, School Events…everyone has fun while LEARNING!

Walk Through the Pyramid $8/booklet or add a fun, colorful Walk Through the Pyramid t-shirt $21 per set
A 25-page event planning guide for an actual walk through the MyPyramid. Participants experience a tremendous interactive sensory lesson. A HKC Hear, See, and Do message! Can be held in shopping malls, parking lots, auditoriums, on football fields, or anywhere space permits—like the school library!

Ready, Set, Cook, and Eat! $8/booklet
Everything you need to know in a 20-page guide for planning a fun, interactive event to promote the return to the kitchen with limited time and resources for quick, simple, healthy meal preparation. Use for Family and Consumer Science classrooms, afterschool programs, community events, parents’ night, or almost anywhere!

“HOW TO” GUIDES for KIDLINK TEAMS and HEALTH INITIATIVE LEADERS

Designed for school/community-based initiatives, and appropriate for multiple environments, i.e., youth and health care organizations, health departments

Take Healthy Action, A Quick Guide for Healthy Eating and Physical Activity…$15.00
a 40-page introductory guide for taking action. Includes a simplified 9-month sample plan with activity ideas from HKC booklets.
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Take Healthy Action, The Complete Guide for Healthy Eating and Physical Activity…$40.00 Currently Unavailable
The Take Healthy Action Guide is for schools and community programs wanting to promote healthy eating and physical activity through changes in environments, policies, and practices. The guide offers 150+ pages of "how to get started" first steps, guidelines for taking healthy action, many activity ideas, and a sample program design.

TOOLKIT AND ASSISTANCE FOR SCHOOLS

Stepping Up

Cost - $200/school
Stepping Up is the most affordable way to purchase HKC materials in ONE Toolkit!

A school or program will receive a full HKC Resource Toolkit:

  • Wednesday WOWS…The HKC weekly E-newsletter
  • One set of materials (K-5th grade focus) including: A la Cart Snacks, A la Cart Breakfast, Food Museum, Acting Up, Setting Up for Success, and 2 copies of our best seller, The School Activity Kit
  • To give you a quick start, 2 copies of the guidebook, Take Healthy Action, A Quick Guide for Healthy Eating and Physical Activity
  • Three community event planners: Walk through the Pyramid, Ready, Set, Cook, and Eat, Dairy Dazzling Calcium Carnival
  • A sample set of kids activity booklets, ages 2-6 and 7-11: Snack Attack, Good Times with Good Foods, Nuts About Nutrition
  • Toll free number or E-mail for questions


Making Strides
HKC Resource Toolkit PLUS distance assistance and training!

Cost - $2000/school for one year

Team Building - Assessment of Existing Environment, Practices, and Policies- Action Planning – Measuring Progress

  • Up to 7 hours phone/E-mail start-up assistance per school to take the initiative from concept to strategic planning and action steps
  • 45-60 min. group phone conference training every other month
  • Scheduled 15-30 min. (based on your needs) individual phone calls on alternating months
  • Recognition of your special happenings will be showcased on HKC Web pages

For additional information about either of these programs, call 1-888-259-6287 or E-mail vickie@healthykidschallenge.com

 

MORE AWESOME IDEAS TO ENCOURAGE THE CHALLENGE!

Bookmarks …$10.00/100 count

For kids: front--Colorful Kids Star Graphics; back-- 7 "Healthy Me" Goals for kids to choose
For adults: front--Challenge Star Graphics; back--"Healthy Me Goals" and HKC contact information

HKC T-shirts …Full color front graphic designs …$15.00 each
50/50 blend short-sleeve white t-shirt in 3 designs!

1. Healthy and Fit Machines
2. Build a Healthy World Kid by Kid
3. Walk through the Pyramid with AWESOME Balance

Back side of T-shirts – HKC slogan in B&W
“Making a Difference Today for Tomorrow”

Great incentive and thank you AWE-some ideas!!

Wednesday WOWS (Wonderful Opportunities With Schools) …free SUBSCRIBE
An E-newsletter designed for youth leaders and school staff working with kids K-5. During the school year, WOWS provides weekly, quick, simple ideas to implement or to keep on file. Messages include action ideas for promoting breakfast, snacks, active play, and fruits and vegetables with tips for group activities, bulletin boards, and more. Also get grant information and Web sites links.

 
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