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Healthy Habits for Life Child Care Resource Kit
The Healthy Habits for Life Child Care Resource Kit is part of Sesame Workshop’s Healthy Habits for Life Initiative aimed at helping young children and their caregivers establish an early foundation of healthy habits. The kit includes a manual with lessons and activities, handouts for child care providers and newsletters to distribute to parents.
Strengths:
- Appropriate for target population of 3-5 year olds and adaptable for younger populations
- Well-organized and clear information
- Well-integrated nutrition and physical activity components
- Strong rationale for good nutrition and physical activity
- Creative ideas for activities that are easy to understand and implement
- The “sometimes” and “anytime” food concept very understandable by preschoolers
- Good age-appropriate activities including unstructured movement
- Very visually appealing
- SesameWorkshop characters familiar to providers, children and parents
- Good use of music and songs
- Available in Spanish
Limitations:
- SesameWorkshop connection a potential negative for communities working to reduce media exposure in young children or commercialism of childhood
- Does not address use with children with special needs
- Reading level of parent handouts may be too high for broad use
- Limited diversity of foods
- DVD component may be difficult to understand (especially Elmo) and requires children to be passive observers
- Limited suggestions for involving parents
- Overview piece on using the manual would be helpful for teachers
- Physical activities may be too short limited in duration
Implementation:
- Could be implemented in most or all child development settings: school, preschool and family child care homes
- User-friendly and does not require a lot of training
- No additional materials required, beyond those readily available in any setting