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Healthy Out-of-School Time (HOST)
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Curricula and Toolkits
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25 Healthy Snacks for Kids
When a snack attack strikes, refuel with these nutrition-packed snacks: Food, Nutrition and Health Tips from the American Dietetic Association.
Action for Healthy Kids Programs
Action for Healthy Kids offers free and low-cost programs and resources to help children in all schools learn healthy eating habits and the need for daily physical activity, and to help them eat healthy foods and be active every day.
Analyze My Plate Interactive Tool
Online interactive nutrition analysis tool from the Centers for Disease Control. Just drag food items over to your plate and you will get a nutritional analysis of your selections.
BAM! Activity Cards
Is there an activity you want to know more about? Not sure of how to play or what gear you'll need? Look no further — it's all right here: Activity cards from BAM (Body and Mind) at the CDC.
Can you name these worldly fruits and vegetables?
A colorful four-page worksheet for learning the names of 16 fruits and vegetables from around the world, published by the CDC.
Farm to School and School Gardening: A Resource List for Educators
This publication from the Food and Nutrition Information Center is a collection of resources on the topic of Farm to School and School Gardening for educators. It comprises information available on the World Wide Web, educational materials and contact information of related organizations.
Food and Fun After School
Food and Fun After School is a curriculum from the President and Fellows of Harvard College and YMCA of the USA, designed to develop healthy habits out of school time. Curriculum materials are available free of charge.
Fruit & Vegetable Fun for Kids
To help educators help students establish smart fruit and vegetable eating habits for a lifetime, Produce for Better Health Foundation (PBH) has designed curricula and other kids’ teaching tools especially for classroom use.
Girls on the Run
A 24-lesson curriculum designed for 3rd – 8th grade girls which combines training for a 5k run with lessons that inspire them to recognize and honor their individual strengths and talents and to celebrate their inner selves.
Guide to Developing Exemplary Practices in Healthy Eating, Physical Activity and Food Security
Developed by the Center for Collaborative Solutions’ Healthy Behavior Initiative, this toolkit is designed to help improve the nutrition and physical activity of children and their families. It outlines practices that have been proven successful and provides the tools needed to achieve the practices’ goals in afterschool programs.
Healthy Kids New York - Afterschool Initiative Toolkit
This toolkit for the Healthy Kids, Healthy New York After-School Initiative from the New York State Department of Health provides facts, guidelines, resources, and assessment tools relating to obesity prevention.
Healthy Snack Guide For Your After School Program
This guide is intended to help after school youth providers serve healthy snacks. For those who are new to after school snacks, or who do not know where to start, the guide has many helpful tips on how to start serving snacks, as well as sample cycle menus to get you started. For the audience well versed in providing healthy after school snacks, this guide contains many recipes for you to try out.
Physical Activity Guidelines Toolkit or Americans: Children and Adolescents
To promote the guidelines and support youth physical activity, CDC and several
partner organizations developed the Youth Physical Activity Guidelines Toolkit,
which highlights specific strategies that schools, families, and communities can
use to support youth physical activity.
Start Smart Eating & Reading
This breakfast, nutrition and reading program was designed to help 1st and 2nd graders discover the importance of breakfast through reading and discussion of various children's literature books. The four modules each offer a no-cook food activity and other activities to reinforce the message about smart eating. The curriculum was jointly prepared by 4-H Youth Development and Family Community Development of the Oregon State University Extension Service and the Oregon Department of Education.
Take Charge of Your Health: A Guide for Teenagers
A practical guide to healthy eating and physical activity for teenagers, from the Weight-control Information Network. The Weight-control Information Network (WIN) is a national information service of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) of the National Institutes of Health, which is the Federal Government's lead agency responsible for biomedical research on nutrition and obesity.
Tools for the School Community
A toolkit for building a healthy school environment by the Santa Clara County Office of Education. This guide outlines the facts, policies, and tips for maintaining the Local Wellness Policy.
