Educating Children about Berries and Healthy Habits

Cal-Giant is proud to partner with “Healthy Habits for Life,” Sesame Street’s multi-year initiative to help young children and their caregivers establish an early foundation of healthy habits that can last a lifetime.

The initiative maximizes the power and reach of Sesame Street to promote fun and educational messages about healthy eating and physical activity.

	Furry Sesame Street friends who model fun ways to move and play!
	Encouragement to explore and enjoy healthy foods like strawberries!
	Opportunities to build self-confidence and feel good about themselves!
	Fun and age-appropriate ways to stay healthy, strong and happy everyday!
	Information about fun ways to help young children try a variety of new, healthy foods
	Tips to make physical activity a fun part of everyday family life

	Visit a supermarket or farm to help your child learn where foods come from; discuss the different ways the food could be prepared and served.
	Invite your child to plan the menu for one family meal. Encourage your child to go shopping with you to buy the foods. Then, let your child help prepare and serve the meal. After the meal, talk about what your child learned about food.
	Do a taste test or a crunch test. Dip a vegetable into three different flavors of low-fat dressing or try a crunch test with three different kinds of vegetables to see which vegetable crunches the loudest.
	Ask your child to move like different animals. "Jump like a kangaroo," "Slither like a snake," or their favorite sports stars, "move like a basketball player," or "balance like your favorite gymnast."
	Help your child make a healthy foods alphabet book. Encourage your child to think of healthy foods that begin with different letters. Feature one letter and food on each page. For example: A is for apple. B is for broccoli. C is for carrots.
	Eat your colors everyday! Encourage your child to pick five different colored fruits and vegetables to eat each day!