Special Events Bring Healthy Eating and Physical Activity to Life

Do you ever find yourself in the position of being responsible for:

• Finding a fun way to teach high school kids about healthy eating and being active?
• Getting parents more engaged in bringing back the family meal concept?
• Planning a special event to teach the benefits of calcium-rich foods and being active?
• Guiding employees with how to make healthy food choices at work and at home?

HKC can help any school, organization, business or community program design and implement a fun, interactive event while meeting audience needs and teaching objectives.

Examples of HKC’s outstanding “hands on” events for adults and kids include:

Walk Through the Pyramid™ Ready, Set, Cook, and Eat™ Dairy Dazzling Calcium Carnival

Walk Through the Pyramid™ offers a physical place to explore, learn and set personal goals for healthy eating and physical activity. Participants take an actual walk through the brightly colored USDA MyPyramid food group displays and hear special nutrition messages along the way. While using food models, real foods, and familiar boxes, labels and cans; participants are able to envision and practice the healthy message. See photos of actual events.

Ready, Set, Cook, and Eat™ brings healthy eating and cooking to life in a fun and entertaining way by featuring a 3 team “cook-off”. Each team is given a surprise sack of food supplies, simple cooking equipment and kitchenware, and 30-45 minutes to prepare a tasty and healthy dish. The event’s healthy message determines the ingredients provided to the teams. As food preparation is taking place, an MC is interacting with the audience to provide quick healthy tips, engage them in a food trivia contest, and even a little fun physical activity! Audience participants go home with healthy eating tip sheets and ideas for their own use. See photos of actual events.

Dairy Dazzling Calcium Carnival, produced as part of an educational grant, is a fun, interactive way of creating awareness, knowledge, and behavior change. It challenges kids to consume 3-A-Day dairy servings and participate in active play everyday! From the beginning, kids make the carnival their own by using simple, easy to find resources, and creating the games themselves. See photos of actual events.

Special events are a first step in creating awareness, excitement, and momentum for healthy behavior change. Let HKC offer assistance in taking this step to make a difference today for tomorrow.

HKC provides three levels of technical support

1. Brief start-up and idea development via E-mail and telephone.
2. Start-up and idea development plus distance assistance through project completion.
3. All of the support in the first and second levels plus travel onsite to help your team implement the project.

Make healthy C.H.A.N.G.E. (Connect Health And Needs, Get Excited) happen!

Contact us at 1-888-259-6287 or vickie@healthykidschallenge.com for special event planning.