Healthy Living

4-H Healthy Living Activity Guide

Fresh Chefs

Families are spending more time at home, so now is the perfect time to learn a new recipe and add a little more fun to family mealtime. Check out the free digital #4HFreshChefs Cookbook!

What’s better than cooking at home? Making meals that are both inspired and easy to make. This collection of recipes from the 4-H community hits those marks on every page.

Featuring nearly 50 recipes from 4-H’ers, supporters, and 4-H alumni — including celebrity chef, author, and Tennessee 4-H alumna Carla Hall — the Fresh Chefs digital cookbook includes healthy everyday recipes and celebratory dishes for youth and families to enjoy. Dig in!

Fresh Chefs was made possible by generous support from the Walmart Foundation.

Healthy Living Resources

Kids’ Animal Yoga Cards

National 4-H Council- 4-H Healthy Living Activity Guide: Download the 4-H Healthy Living Activity Guide for 30 hands-on, educational activities to help your child live a happy, healthy life.
https://4-h.org/about/inspire-kids-to-do/#main-form

MyPlate Kid’s Place:  MyPlate Kid’s Place includes games, videos, songs, and activity sheets to help kids learn about food, nutrition, and physical activity.
https://www.choosemyplate.gov/browse-by-audience/view-all-audiences/children/kids

Food Science Activities For Kids: Penn State University offers a list of easy, hands-on activities to help kids learn about Food Science.
https://foodscience.psu.edu/youth/experiments

UGA Extension’s FoodTalk.org: Foodtalk includes simple recipes, as well as many quick and easy instructional videos. Get the whole family involved in cooking with foodtalk.org.
https://foodtalk.org

FoodHero: FoodHero, from Oregon State University, offers kid-approved recipes, cooking videos, activity sheets and coloring pages.
https://www.foodhero.org/kids

Fight BAC: The Partnership for Food Safety Education’s Fight BAC!® for Kids section includes ideas and fun activities for kids that teach them about the basics of safe food handling.
https://www.fightbac.org/kidsfoodsafety/kids-games-and-activities/

America’s Test Kitchen for Kids: America’s test kitchen is temporarily offering free access to resources for youth. Check it out for ideas, recipes, and information about young people in the kitchen.
https://www.americastestkitchen.com/kids/home

Home Baking Association: The Home Baking Association also has some lesson plans and other resources posted for Classroom, After-school & Clubs work with youth. These provide good examples of teaching along with baking — special food needs, measuring, roles of ingredients like fats, flour, etc.
https://www.homebaking.org/lesson-plans/

LifeSmarts U: LifeSmarts U lessons explore current consumer topics in depth. Lessons in this virtual classroom have two components – online modules for independent student learning, and an “unplugged” lesson for educators to use in classroom or group instruction.
https://lifesmarts.org/lifesmarts-u

Food and Drug Administration Food and Science Resources-  If you are looking for free online food-related science resources, FDA has interactive curricula using food safety & nutrition to make science relevant.  Note the Nutrition topics are from 2017, so the Nutrition Facts label one would not have the latest nutrition facts panel information.
https://www.fda.gov/food/students-teachers/science-and-our-food-supply