Live Healthy Kids

We ❤️ the Hive! Looks like Abri is about to cook up something delicious 👀

Abri is hands down, the hardest worker at the Hive! She’s trying out her cooking kit from Live Healthy Appalachia. 😊

Happy Earth Day 🌎 On this day we celebrate how beautiful our planet is. It is important to keep our planet clean!

Starting Monday, April 4th Live Healthy Kids will be at the Sojo Resiliency Center from 4 - 6 pm! Stop by and participate in some awesome programs. Looking forward to seeing you guys there!!

Hello! Did you know that the Live Healthy Appalachia website has a bunch of printable activities? Check out our website https://livehealthyappalachia.org/ ! Under the programs tab, click Live Healthy Kids. From there you will see printable activities! 🖍🖌✏️

Live Healthy Appalachia : Our Programs : Live Healthy Kids : Printable Activities

Happy International Day of Happiness LHK friends!

Happy First Day of Spring LHK! 🌷☀️

Happy St. Patricks Day LHK Friends! Check out this awesome Rainbow Fruit Popsicle recipe and let us know what you think! 🍀☘️

Good morning LHK! Positive affirmations are always a great way to start the day. Affirmations help us achieve our goals and remind us to have a positive outlook on the day!

Throughout the last few weeks at Live Healthy Kids, we have been discussing the importance of vitamins! Vitamins keep our bodies healthy and strong. Vitamin B is good for your skin, bone development, nervous system, and helps with boosting your energy!

Who loves to cook with others? I know I do! Check out this delicious oatmeal recipe by Live Healthy Kids! 🍌🍓🍏

Good Morning LHK and Happy Friday! Participating in Yoga helps with strength, balance, and flexibility. Yoga also improves sleep! Try out these yoga poses in the morning to get your day started! 🧘

Happy National Nutrition Month Live Healthy Kids! This month we will talk about the importance of making healthy food choices. Stay tuned for some delicious LHK recipes! 🥦🥑🥝

It's National Strawberry Day!! Check out this super delicious strawberry shortcake dipper recipe and let us know what you think! 🍓

Hello LHK friends!! We are still in the middle of Flu season, 🤧 so it is important to keep your hands clean. Washing your hands frequently will help keep everyone safe! 🧼

LHK friends,

It's okay to have bad days. Here are some coping mechanisms to try out if your day is not going as planned!

Happy Valentine's Day LHK friends! Enjoy this coloring page with family and friends! ❤️🍓

Happy Superbowl Sunday LHK! 🏈 Check out this super delicious black bean dip recipe and let us know what you think!

We made Quinoa Tabouli & Sweet Bulgar Salad today at LHK to learn about the Whole Grain Food Group! 🌾We also practiced some exercises to keep our bodies agile and quick! 🏃‍♀️🏃🏽💨

We are so grateful! Thank you! ❤️🍏👩‍🏫

Since 2010 Live Healthy Appalachia has been teaching young minds in our local schools the importance of healthy choices through the Live Healthy Kids program. Live Healthy is now working to make the program even more accessible through a virtual format. We’re pleased to donate $1,000 toward the important educational tools that will be used to produce videos for Live Healthy Kids.

Brrr, it's cold outside! Get moving and warm your muscles with these stretches! 😄☃️❄️

We observed classrooms this week at Nelsonville-York Elementary in preparation for LHK Lesson 1 next week! 😍🥕💜 Look how excited some of our facilitators are to meet the students and get LHK underway in 5 more classrooms!

Yesterday, we talked about the importance of eating breakfast and made Outrageous Oatmeal with lots of nutritious toppings! Just look at those colorful bowls! Together, we brainstormed healthy, balanced breakfasts. 😁🍎🍇🍓💛 See below for our tasty oatmeal recipe.

Overwhelmed? Here's a free printable for some mindfulness exercises! In Athens, it is cold and dreary, so hopefully this rainbow brightens your day just a little 🥰🌈

It’s not too late to participate in Giving Tuesday & give Appalachian kids the gift of better health! 🌽🥕🥜

"My favorite part of being a food educator is watching the kids try fresh foods for the first time and then hearing them talk about the experience. They’ve embraced the “don’t yuck my yum” rule -- even if they don’t initially love the fruit or vegetable, they are quick to say something positive about its texture or color. It’s so rewarding to see kids try healthy foods for the first time -- especially when they like what they’ve tasted!" - Maddi Butina, LHK food educator and AmeriCorps COMCorps member
Are you passionate about improving the lives of kids in our region? Support LHK by visiting https://www.facebook.com/donate/1927543467433169/ and give the gift of a healthier life to children in Appalachia. 🥕💝

Happy Thanksgiving! We hope you had a wonderful day. 🦃🥧🌽❤️

After 12 weeks of programming at the Hive, our parting gifts were mobile kitchens for each kid complete with measuring cups/spoons, various utensils, plastic safety knives, a cutting board, an apron & a chefs hat. 🧑‍🍳🍴

Thank you to the Hive for a great run & we hope the kiddos get some use out of the mobile kitchens! Pictured is LHA’s VISTA AmeriCorps member Syd being a good sport and holding kitchens on their lap while we packed the car full. 👩‍🍳💗🐝

We already on our 4th LHK lesson in Amesville! Today we talked about knife safety & the importance of preparing fruits and vegetables properly! 🍴🍎🫑 Here’s Miss Sonya showing the class different kinds of knives and explaining when to use them.

I don't know about you, but I've had a LOOONG week! ☀️ Let's take a deep breath and repeat these mindfulness affirmations together! Have a great weekend! 💜

Here’s COMCorps member Bailey cooking up some green apples for our homemade applesauce tonight at the Hive! The red apple applesauce was delicious — we’ll see how everyone likes the version with green apples! 🍏 🍎

Happy Fall, friends! 🍁 🤍🍂

We 💜 going to the Hive!

Have a Healthful Halloween!

Tip #4: Halloween is fast approaching, and if you're scrambling at the last minute to find the perfect giveaways, here's a pro tip: instead of buying candy, choose toys like jump ropes and sidewalk chalk to promote an active lifestyle to kids in your community.
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Don't throw out those seeds! See below for a delicious recipe to make the most of your pumpkin. 🎃🐈‍⬛ T-minus 3 days until Halloween!

Check out the movie lists our friend Meah made! 👻🧙‍♀️Scroll to find a Halloween movie and where to watch it. Which movie is your favorite?? ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Happy National Pumpkin Day! 🎃 DID YOU KNOW ⁉️ Pumpkins are technically fruits, not vegetables, since they have seeds! They are more nutritionally akin to veggies, though.

Pumpkins are packed with vitamins and antioxidants, including ones that may protect your eyesight 👀 -- and decorating them makes for a pretty fun Halloween activity, too!

Do you like to carve, paint or decorate your pumpkins in other ways?

It's almost Halloween, everyone! Tune in throughout the week for loads of spine-chilling fun and healthy living from LHK. What's your favorite part of spooky season? 🎃