What do i play ( with a toddler ) if i want to promote health maintenance

Esme12, ASN, BSN, RN · Sep 28, 2011

http://kidshealth.org/parent/growth/learning/toddler_games.html

http://www.bblocks.samhsa.gov/educators/lesson_plans/

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Double-Helix, BSN, RN · Sep 28, 2011

Anything active. Exercise promotes health.

You could bring in some healthy foods and teach them to make a healthy snack. They would love this because then they could eat it.

Teeth brushing is also really important for this age group if you can design a game around that.

In school, we visited some pre-schools with "glow germs," A powder that is invisible in regular light but glows orange under a black light. First we teach proper hand washing, then we give every kid some glow germs and have them wash their hands. Then you look under the light to see how well everyone did. You can also sprinkle some glow germs on commonly used surfaces like the table, door knob, etc, and at the end of the day, see how many people caught the germs.

Clovery · Sep 28, 2011

"action songs" that also teach things like

"head shoulders knees and toes" it's exercise and teaches um body awareness? "P

raffi "brush your teeth" song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSy0Pp2kTbo

I don't know where you'll be doing this or what kind of supplies you'll have but if you have some play food, you could come up with a game about that. Like "find all the fruits", "create a healthy plate" etc. That'd go over well with 2 yr olds at least. Not sure kids closer to 1 would be able to do that.

here's a site with lyrics for a bunch of healthy songs, there's only a clip of the actual song but you might be able to find the whole thing on youtube

http://www.songsforteaching.com/healthsongs.htm

ETA: here's a handwashing song from a popular kid's show: