Healthy Habits

Make a Food Chain

Over a set period of time make a family Food Chain listing all of the foods that family members tried that were new to them. We suggest doing this over a month or even over the entire summer. 

Try an Alphawalk outside!

Take a medium-paced stroll around your yard, neighborhood, or community park with your family. Guess before you go how long it will take to walk around at a medium-paced stroll. As you walk spot and call out objects that start with each letter of the alphabet in order. For example, if after starting you walk you see an ant say “ant”, then you see a bird and say “bird”. Your goal is to find objects for as many letters as possible before your walk ends.  See if you beat your original guess on how long it would take. Repeat and try to beat your time or repeat at different locations.

At Home Fun: Garden Rocks!

Painting a rock is a creative way to add some color to your room, house, or outside. If you have a place for a garden where you live, you can use a painted rock to decorate your garden. Painting rocks is fun and a little messy. This is a good activity to do outside or in the house with newspaper or other ways to protect the table or floor where you are painting.

Supplies:

1. A rock (a smooth river rock is best)
2. Paint
3. Paintbrush

Directions:

• Make sure you cover your space and are wearing clothing that you can get paint on or that you have protected your clothing.
• Clean and dry the rock.
• Decide what you want to paint on your rock. Do you have a favorite fruit or vegetable you’d like to draw on your rock? If you are using your rock in your garden, you might want to
• Paint your rock a base color.
• Paint away! Be as creative as you want.
• Let it dry for a couple of days where you know it

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