Active Play, Every Day at Home
Share this video on active play ideas for toddlers with parents on a home visit or during a socialization. Use this resource to help parents consider goals around physical activity.
Understanding How the Environment Shapes a Child's Nutrition Habits
Learn about the environmental factors that can impact children's health. Find ways programs can tailor health services to help children improve their nutrition habits, health, and well-being.
I Am Moving, I Am Learning (IMIL)
Learn how I Am Moving, I Am Learning promotes physical activity and nutrition to help children, families, and staff. Use it to build on what programs are already doing to increase intentional movement.
Mindful Moments: Chair Stretches
Use these five stretches while working at your desk, in a classroom, or share them at a team meeting.
Implementing Physical Activities with Children in Mixed-Age Groups
View this webinar to find ways to help mixed-age groups of children engage in physical activity. Learn how to offer movement opportunities to all children in your program.
Active Play: Health Tips for Families
This fact sheet includes tips families can use to help young children develop positive active play behaviors.
Healthy Active Living
Review this collection of resources and learn how to promote healthy active living among staff and families.
I Am Moving, I Am Learning (IMIL) Testimonials
I Am Moving, I Am Learning (IMIL) is a proactive approach for addressing childhood obesity in Head Start children. Training participants provided these testimonials after attending the IMIL trainings in 2017–2020.
Strategies to Support and Encourage Healthy Active Living
Watch this webinar for strategies programs can use to encourage and develop healthy active living behaviors for children in their care. Head Start and Early Head Start staff may find this resource useful in working with families to change their habits.
Healthy Active Living: Tips for Health Managers
This fact sheet provides information on healthy active living. It discusses the importance of physical activity, a healthy diet, and quality sleep to the overall growth, development, and learning of young children.