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Health & Physical Development

Promote a healthy lifestyle for the whole family with these ideas, activities and lessons on healthy foods to eat, fine and gross motor skills, and how to stay fit.

Resources

Health & Nutrition

Browse resources that can help you and your family eat nutritious meals and stay healthy throughout all stages of development.

Online Resources

KidsHealth for Parents - Nemours Foundation - Resources to support families’ understanding of children’s health and development.  Check out the daily Q&A section for commonly raised questions by parents!  Also available in Spanish.

Nutrition - HealthyChildren.org - articles and recipes to help families make good nutritional choices.  Developed by the American Academy of Pediatrics.  Also available in Spanish.

LRC-South Resources

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Books and Activities for Kids:

  • 4 Weeks 2 a Higher Food IQ produced by Learning Zone Express
  • Discover MyPlate: Emergent Reader Mini Books published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food, and Nutrition Services
  • Fruit Rainbow: Healthy Eating for People with Developmental Disabilities produced by Program Development Associates
  • Healthy Helpings: A MyPlate Activity Mat produced by Learning Resources
  • Healthy Hurdles produced by Learning Resources
  • My Plate and Healthy Eating Book Set published by Capstone Press
  • Super Size Me produced by Morgan Spurlock

Books for Adults:

  • Nourishing Healthy Preschoolers: A Guide to MyPlate Nutrition published by Learning Seed
  • Recipes for Healthy Kids: Cookbook for Homes published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Services
  • The Usborne Round the World Cookbook by Caroline Young, Carol Law, and Nadine Wickenden

Try out our Search Tool to explore all of our resources about nutrition!

Motor Skills

A collection of resources and activities that develop gross and fine motor skills and help families stay fit.

Online Resources

Fitness - HealthyChildren.org - articles and recipes to help families exercise and stay fit.  Developed by the American Academy of Pediatrics.  Also available in Spanish.

Gross Motor Skills: What You Need To Know - Understood - A parent-friendly overview of gross motor skills, their significance for everyday life, and how to support your child’s development of gross motor skills at home.

Help Your Child Build Fine Motor Skills | NAEYC - Tips for families on supporting the development of fine motor skills at home.

Tools for Parents - The OT Toolbox - Screenings, resources to support children receiving occupational therapy, and tools to support your child’s physical development.

Fine Motor Skills: What You Need to Know - Understood - A parent-friendly overview of fine motor skills, their significance for school, and how to support your child’s development of fine motor skills at home.

LRC-South Resources

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Fine-Motor Skills Books:

  • 100 Fine Motor Ideas: for Parents, Teachers & Therapists published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 
  • Basics of Fine Motor Skills: Developmental Activities for Kids published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 
  • Everyday Play: Fun Games to Develop the Fine Motor Skills Your Child Needs for School by Christy Isbell
  • Ready to Write! 100 Tips & Strategies for Developing Fine-Motor Skills to Help Young Students Build a Strong Foundation for Handwriting by Peggy Campbell-Rush

Fine-Motor Skills Activities:

  • Better Builders produced by Guide Craft
  • Feed the Dog Fine Motor Game produced by Lakeshore
  • Hoop & Loop Sticky Blocks produced by Lakeshore
  • I Can Tie My Shoes! Produced by Carson-Dellosa
  • Spike the Fine Motor Hedgehog produced by Learning Resources
  • Waterway Pipe Builders produced by Lakeshore
  • Wedgits Imagination Set produced by Constructive Playthings

Try out our Search Tool to explore all of our resources related to fine motor skills!

Gross-Motor Skills Books:

  • Babar’s Yoga for Elephants by Laurent de Brunhoff
  • From Head to Toe by Eric Carle
  • Gross Motor Skills for Children with Down Syndrome: A Guide for Parents and Professionals by Patricia C. Winders
  • Growing an In-Sync Child by Carol Kranowitz and Joye Newman
  • Up, Down, Move Around - Nutrition and Motor Skills: Active Learning for Preschoolers by Deborah Kayton Michals

Gross-Motor Skills Activities:

  • Activity Walking Trail produced by Flaghouse
  • Beanbag Board Toss Mat Set produced by Gopher
  • Get Fit Kit (in English & Spanish) produced by Teaching Strategies
  • Movez: The Game that Gets Kids Moving! produced by Kenson Kids
  • Pizza Party: A Complete Kids’ Yoga Class for Home or School (Ages 3-7) produced by NAEYC
  • Obstacle Course Kit produced by Pull Buoy
  • Toddler Gym produced by Kimbo Educational

Try out our Search Tool to explore all of our resources related to gross motor skills!

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