Everyone is busy getting their kids back to school.  What a perfect time to take a little break and bring the kids to a Family Night that will mix fruits and vegetables and lots of FUN.  Nourish Interactive has been working with Fresh Choice to reach out to kids and promote healthy eating.  With September being National Childhood Obesity Awareness month, it is a reminder to us how important healthy foods and daily activity is for kids.

We are happy to let our San Mateo, CA and nearby Peninsula cities know that the Fresh Choice Restaurant in San Mateo will host its First Family Night.  Nourish Interactive will be there with nutrition education games to make fruits and vegetables fun for kids.

Click to go to Facebook Event Page!

Take a night off from cooking and enjoy fresh seasonal fruits and vegetables from their local farm while the kids have some fun learning about healthy food choices.

Just a few of the FREE & FUN nutrition activities for kids:

• Take a picture with Chef Solus
• Play Nourish Interactive Games- winner of Parents’ Choice Seal and Children’s Library Association Award
• Play tic-tac-toe   The vegetables versus Chef Solus
• Coloring fruits and vegetables while kids learn where produce really comes from!
• Spin the wheel, land on a fruit or vegetable and win a prize!
• Healthy eating out tips for parents to take home.
• Each child will have their name entered into a contest and have a chance to win a Wii game system.

Play the Yummy Drops Fruit Game and automatically get a FREE Kids meal coupon for Fresh Choice Restaurant!

More information:

Family Night event at Fresh Choice Restaurant in San Mateo, CA

Fresh Choice and Nourish Interactive Partnership

Nourish Interactive partnered with Fresh Choice!

Prime time, not snack time

Avoid having the family munching in front of the television this week. It’s harder to keep track of how much you’re eating!

Mondays are a great day to renew Family Health vows. Every Monday, you will find some healthy tip to help your family start the week off on a Healthy Note!

Thanks to Healthy Monday organization for sharing their Monday tips.

Gearing up for a healthy new school year! Some children have just started school and others will be going back to school very soon. The end of summer is a great time to start getting on track for the new routines. Our new article 3 Healthy Steps for Back to School starting the year to make the transition back to school. The first step is starting the day off with a balanced breakfast.

Breakfast food tips for back to school: Studies have shown that children who eat a healthy breakfast are able to concentrate and perform better in school.

Eating a healthy breakfast from the food groups gives children the fuel they need for a productive day at school.

It can be a challenge in the ‘morning rush’ to find time for a healthy breakfast, but skipping breakfast or eating a high sugar breakfast food will often make your child feel tired, restless or irritable by mid-morning. By eating a balanced breakfast, your child will have energy throughout the morning and help him/her concentrate better in class.

Parents and older siblings can act as healthy role models by eating breakfast with them. If time is a restraint, switch some of the morning chores to the night before to ensure there is enough time to eat breakfast or prepare breakfast the night before.

Here are some healthy breakfast food ideas for your child:

✰ Make a parfait. Layer low fat yogurt with berries and top with granola.

✰ Have a special breakfast once a week featuring smoothies, pancakes, waffles, or omelets.

✰ For smoothies, blend low fat milk with frozen berries and a banana (or any fruit) and blend for 30 seconds.

✰ A Breakfast sandwich or burrito can be a fun and healthy breakfast food

✰ Serve unusual breakfast foods once in a while like last night’s leftovers.

✰ Opt for a whole fruit instead of fruit juice (but always choose 100% fruit juice when splurging)

Leave a comment to share your favorite breakfast tips below!

Kids have a Fun Nutrition Story for the month- Chef Solus helps the Explorers learn about eating healthy and being physically active to start the new school year off right!

Printable breakfast tracker

Printable Eating Breakfast Food Tracking Sheet

Printable tips for back to school

3 Simple tips for a healthy new school year

Healthy tip sheet for back to school

Backpack Safety Tips

Traveling to and from School- Safety Tips

I get asked sometimes what to do for your children when everything you have tried has not worked. Your child will simply not eat any or very little fruits and vegetables.  Kids can be very picky eaters and stubborn, too.

I always recommend continued patience and don’t give up trying to introduce fruits and vegetables in different experiences that can be really fun for kids.  Like planting a vegetable and involving the child so they can see it grow from a little seed.  That can really pique their interest.

But in the meantime, how do you ensure your child is getting the necessary vitamins and minerals they need that only comes from fruits and vegetables.  Although fresh is best, sometimes a child does need a supplement.

I am not an expert at supplements but there is one that my husband and I take every morning and one that I buy for my grandniece who is five years old.  And that is Juice Plus.  It is not a manufactured vitamin but actually made from 17 fruits and vegetables.

As I said, it is not a vitamin or mineral, it is actually whole food supplement.  It is made from 17 different fruits and vegetables that are juiced and then dried at low temperatures so that the water and sugar,  salt and the bulk are removed leaving just the concentrated powder from the fruits and vegetables.  This powder is put inside capsules and chewables for kids.

I am not paid to tell you about this special nutrient.  I just really believe in the importance of fruits and vegetables and wanted to share with you something that my family takes to get all our nutrients. I do eat lots of fruits and vegetables every day but sometimes I don’t get all the servings my body needs.  I know my little five year old is one of those very stubborn picky eaters.   That was when I found out they also had a the kids chewables Juice Plus.

When I find a healthy snack or in this case, supplement that I really think is great, I want to pass that on to you.

Here is a link to their general Juice Plus website where you can get more information about their kids chewables and all the research and science behind their product.

Resources:

Picky Eaters Printable Guide for Parents

Summer vacation, it always goes by too fast. Yet there is excitement in the air. Your child is starting a new grade soon you are shopping to get  back to school supplies yet again. Suddenly it hits you – that two words which you had forgotten about since the end of the last school year: SCHOOL  LUNCH!

You want to pack nutritious lunches for your kids but you know it isn’t going to be easy. You want to provide healthy sandwiches or at least a quick and balanced meal that your kids will actually eat. You’ve been here before and recall some of the frustrations. Either you pay for the cafeteria lunch and hear about the awful food, or you discover your daughter hasn’t even taken a bite of her lunchbox sandwich and had only one bite of her apple. This is one reason some parents opt for pre-packed lunches that can contain too much fat and sodium.

Or maybe you toss in a bag of potato chips – because it feels better knowing your son got something into his tummy. Oh yes, getting your child to eat a nutritious lunch can seem like a battle. But does it have to be? Really? With some easy, quick lunch ideas you can get your child eating a nutritious meal without all the headaches!

Schools’ Cafeteria Policy and Healthy Lunches

First, give yourself a pat on the back for making nutrition a priority. It is important to teach kids healthy habits even when they are away from the home. And schools are there to help you!  This is one of the reasons Congress established the school lunch guidelines requiring all schools with a federally-funded meal program (e.g. National School Breakfast or Lunch Program) to develop Wellness Policies by 2007. (More information on school wellness policy).

The Wellness Policy addresses nutrition and physical activity at school. Unfortunately, Wellness Policies may not be enough as schools struggle with small budgets for food service. Thus, quick, easy processed foods (think chicken nuggets and French fries) can still be offered at school.

I recall counseling a few families who struggled with their school-age children. They were so used to eating pizza, hot dogs, and chips at school that this is all they wanted at home for dinner. I recommended packing a brown bag lunch at least two times a week to slowly introduce healthy lunches.

The Easy, Fun and Healthy Lunch Box

Printable Food Pyramid Guide PDF

Get your kids to help you so that healthy lunches are a family affair! It starts by planning ahead and looking to include healthy foods from the five food groups. Add a dash of fun!

Here is a list of healthy, fun and creative lunch ideas for kids:

• Get out the cookie cutters – no not for cookies, but for sandwiches. Kids love food in shapes. You can make a star-shaped sandwiches or even one shaped like a pumpkin. Surprise them with different shapes over the week.
• Serve sliced ham, chicken, tuna or egg salad sandwiches. Some kids love mustard and mayo but some kids may just want a pickle with it. Go with what your child likes. Similarly, some kids don’t like peanut butter but will enjoy sunflower butter, cashew or almond butter as a spread.
• Serve sliced meat rolled up into tubes and offer the bread separate (some kids just aren’t into sandwiches). Similarly, tuna salad can be offered with crackers. Remember, bread doesn’t have to be sliced bread; offer bagels or tortillas. Even just plain sticky rice or couscous can be a hit.
• Toothpicks can add some fun too – kids love bite-sized food. So make a mini-sandwich and place a toothpick in it. You can get toothpicks with fun designs at party stores.
• Other bite-sized food includes cucumber and avocado rolls (many grocery stores now have a section of Japanese food). Or make your own roll: Use Korean roasted seaweed (this has a nice sesame flavor to it) and sticky rice (these are simple versions of kimbap”. Just roll up the rice like into a mini-cylinder shape. Have your child help you make it the night before.
• Tea sandwiches: These are bite-sized sandwiches. Although adult versions usually have spices and onions, you can make your child a cream cheese tea sandwich with very thin cucumber slices.
• Use leftovers for school lunch. If your child ate the beef stew last night for dinner, serve it up for lunch. Either use a thermos after heating it up in the morning or just serve it cold (place an ice pack in the lunch box though to prevent food illness). Check out Easy Lunch Boxes Makes packing a lunch easy! Earth-friendly and safe no BPA, lead, vinyl, PVC or phthalates.
  
• Have some fun and get creative with these tips from moms on how get started with bento lunch boxes for kids:
  Bento Lunch Ideas -Great for Kids!

  Fun with Bentos for Kids
  
  You may also be interested in:More Healthy Lunch Food Ideas for Kids PDF

• School Health and Food Policy Article Back to School- Backpack Safety Tips

Printable Healthy Lunch Box Notes-  tuck one in your child’s lunch bag, it’s a great way to remind them to eat their lunch!

I know many schools are trying to incorporate fresh grown fruits and vegetables into their cafeteria program and their nutrition education programs.

Farm to School brings healthy food from local farms to school children nationwide. The program teaches students about the path from farm to fork, and instills healthy eating habits that can last a lifetime. At the same time, use of fresh local produce in school meals and educational activities provides a new direct market for farmers in the area and mitigates environmental impacts of transporting food long distances.

They have created a network to help parents and teachers find this type of program into their local schools. Meeting local farmers and learning about how foods are grown are all part of helping kids love nutrition! Check out these great resources and work with your school to start a local program for your children.

Find a Farm to School Program by clicking on your state

Do you grow food in a home garden with your children? Does your school have a farm to school program?  Share your experiences and resources with our readers by commenting below. We appreciate hearing from you!

Farm to School and School Food Policy Resources

Farm to School Programs Changes Kids’ Views on Food- ABC News

National School Lunch Program Bill News about the Senate Lunch Reform Bill

On Twitter:

Farm to School  http://twitter.com/farmtoschool
Vermont Farm to School http://twitter.com/GMFTS
Food Policy  http://twitter.com/tlaskawy

Related Resources- from our Website Nourish Interactive:

Food Group Learning Pages and Worksheets Free printables for teaching kids about healthy eating

Farm to Table Food Activity Worksheets 9 NEW worksheets and coloring pages! It’s surprising to know that many kids don’t really know where food comes from. Helping kids understand where food comes from helps them appreciate fresh healthy foods. Our farm to table activity and coloring sheets are designed to help children experience the journey from planting seeds, growing food, to delivery to table. Kids will see the fun journey fresh foods take to get from the farm to a child’s plate.

Introducing our NEW Game!

Thanks for Your Support!

Play Healthy Harvest Maze a fun farm game that teaches children about the importance of fruits and vegetables. Children will enjoy helping Chef Solus pick fruits and vegetables as they find their way through a farm field, orchard and a garden maze. Children get points for picking these healthy foods while learning about the healthy benefits, and nutrients for each food item they have harvested.

Our Healthy Harvest Farm Maze is a finalist in First Lady Michelle Obama’s- Apps for Healthy Kids Challenge!

Click here to learn more about the challenge and how to vote for us! Your vote can help to decide the Popular Choice Winner! We appreciate your support and hope you vote for our games. All game are free and can be played in English or Spanish.

Complete list and descriptions of Nourish Interactive’s free nutrition education games and interactive learning tools.

Thanks to your continued support of our site, we now have over 37,000 members and 4000+ teachers, communities and organizations that use our website to help teach children and families about the importance of healthy eating and daily exercise! Join our trendy moms and techy schools that are using the internet and interactive games to promote early nutrition education to children in a fun and positive way.

We are very proud to share our Showcase page of national and local organizations that link to us and share our resources with their communities. You may also want to read our Visitor Comments and hear how our resources are helping families and children every day.

Interested in becoming a member?
It’s free -sign up for parents/caregivers sign up for teachers and organizations

Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/kidshealthtips

Be a Mom on a Mission to Help Chef Solus fight childhood obesity and improve childhood nutrition!

I am a nurse and a mom who founded a free, bilingual nutrition education website to promote healthy eating to children through fun interactive nutrition games.  I am in a national contest “Apps for Healthy Kids” (part of the Michelle Obama “Let’s Move” campaign to fight childhood obesity).  This contest gives me an opportunity to really reach those families that don’t know we are here to help them.

I am looking for a limited number mom bloggers to partner with me in the fight against childhood obesity and improve children’s nutrition.  We only have a few days left in this national contest (contest ends August 14^th 12 pm EST, 9am PST ) and we need your help to mobilize moms and supporters to vote. Here is how we can help you by helping us win this contest:

• You can show your potential advertisers and clients that you helped our website win a national contest.  This will show how powerful your blog or other social channels are as a marketing vehicle.  You will also get an exclusive badge to show your success if we win!
• You can share your banner 150×150 or 200×200 for mom owned business, marketing, family friendly products or services to our website visitors and parent members. (If we win the contest all the more traffic to the page)

• ie. For participating, we will post your content for one full year as a “thank you” for your support on a special ‘Hall of Fame of moms who sent Chef Solus to DC” on a resource page for parents.  If we do not win, we will still post your image, link and text for three months on a parents’ page on our website.

• We will also give you a special badge to post on your site promoting your marketing muscle!  “I helped Chef Solus win the Apps for Healthy Kids Contest!”

• You will be aligning yourself with an event that will have national exposure

• You will be working for a great cause, our children.  In the end, that is what this is all about.

All you have to do is help us spread the word about the contest and let your readers and friends know how to vote for our game on your website, blog, facebook, twitter and any other social system you use.

To participate just:

• Email me at support (at) nourishinteractive.com or Respond to this blog in the comments section, make sure to give email so we can contact you today. (Make sure to add: support (at) nourishinteractive.com to your address book/white list to receive our email.)

• We will provide you with a special image badge to put on your site (sample shown above) to show you are Mom on a Mission to send Chef Solus to DC

• Post short article (you can see it at bottom of this post) for you to post on your networks (twitter, facebook, blog, e-news, or other social network)

• Send us a link of the posted article on your blog, facebook, twitter, e-newsletter or other social channels and encourage moms and supporters to vote throughout your network.
• *In addition you can also ask fans, friends, family to vote by sending them an email recommending they vote!
  Direct link to vote is: http://www.appsforhealthykids.com/application-gallery/chef-solus-and-the-food-pyramid-adventure or Share link to our website contest page http://www.nourishinteractive.com/healthy-kids-games-contest which gives some reasons why they may want to vote for us!

• After the contest, we will place your banner 150×150 or 200×200 with link to your site on our special resource page for parents called our Chef Solus’ Hall of Fame Wall, along with a two-line description of your website or blog.

• We will post an image and link for each of the social media you use to promote our game.

• Please note that you must be a family friendly site, we will notify you immediately if your site is not appropriate for our visitors.
• Only selected approved moms will be involved in Moms on Mission to send Chef Solus to DC.
• This offer ends when we have reached capacity for our ‘Hall of Fame Wall’ – we will announce when it is closed here.

There is only a few days left of the contest- Do you want to help mobilize moms and supporters to take quick action to vote for Chef Solus (and support a woman/mom owned business) in this national contest? The leading finalists at this time are all men! We need your help moms- we know we can do it with your help! If you are interested and feel to you can support this mission, please comment below to get approval started*

* Remember we will screen all sites/blogs and products to make sure they are appropriate for our family friendly, safe-surf website, please wait to hear from us before working on this.

Once you hear from us and we send you the badge and it will be time to get moving to send Chef Solus to DC, so he can reach more children and families with his free nutrition games, fun interactive tools and positive healthy messaging. Thank you  for your support!

All of our games are free and available in English and Spanish- see them here http://bit.ly/chefsolusgames
Learn more about animated ‘Chef Solus and the Food Pyramid Adventure Game’ and check out all 20 of our free FUN games and learning tools.  Click here to play Chef Solus Food Pyramid Game- first 2 levels require no sign up, or sign up to play all 7 levels and get progress reports. It’s FUN and FREE!

“Together we can give children the knowledge, facts and skills to develop healthy habits for a lifetime!” Maggie LaBarbera RN

About NourishInteractive.com

We are a family oriented free bilingual website that teaches children and families about nutrition through fun interactive nutrition games, tools and content. My website is run by health care professionals.  We have been listed by the USDA as one of the top websites to fight childhood obesity and just received the American Library award for Best Kids Websites.  We have grown to almost a half a million page views per month through word of mouth. Website haas Google PR of 5, Average 5 min and 5-6 page views per visitor these number goes up during school year!

Here is mini article to post on your blog/site:

Maggie LaBarbera is a nurse and a mother who started, NourishInteractive.com, a free bilingual nutrition website for kids.  She launched this website in 2008 because of her concern about the growing problem of childhood obesity.  Childhood obesity is at the forefront of the national news with 60% of our children overweight or obese.   The website provides parents, educators and children with interactive games and nutrition tools that make learning about healthy eating fun.

Michelle Obama also believes that we need creative and fun solutions that will engage children and help them form healthy habits.  That is why she held a national contest “Apps for healthy Kids” part of the “Let’s Move” national campaign.

NourishInteractive.com has entered the “Chef Solus Food Pyramid Adventure” game in the Michelle Obama contest.  She needs your support to win.  A vote for her game is a vote for helping prevent childhood obesity.

It will only take you a few minutes of your time so please support this important cause.  Our children are counting on you!  You can vote for the Nourish Interactive game by clicking here.  Please vote before noon August 14^th.

Parents, grandparents, educators, caregivers, health care professionals and more are needed to share opinions about children’s nutrition. Take our quick online survey and be entered to win a ‘Curious Chef’ Foundation Cooking Set for Kids giveaway. (valued at $59.99)

We can’t believe it is going to be 2 and 1/2 years since we launched Nourish Interactive- The fun ( & free!) way to learn about nutrition.  It has been through your support for our site that we have grown to over almost half a million hits per month, 37,000 members and 4000+ organizations that use our website to help teach children and families about the importance of healthy eating and daily exercise.  And that was all done through word of mouth- thanks to so many of you who spread the word about our free nutrition education website!

We are excited to enter the new school year and want to make sure we are creating the healthy tools and resources that you are looking for.

Please fill out our short survey share your opinions about children’s nutrition and let us  know where you would like us to focus our efforts.  As a thank you for your time, your name will be automatically entered into a contest to win a Curious Chef Foundation Cooking Set for Kids.(valued at $59.99)

You can also be entered into the contest on Twitter by tweeting the following message:

Children’s nutrition survey! Share opinions & enter to WIN a Curious Chef Kids’ Cooking Set http://ow.ly/2md81 #chefsolus

We know cooking is a great way to help kids learn about healthy eating and nutritious foods so we thought what a perfect gift.

Click here to fill out our survey by August 14, 2010 and be entered in the contest!

Thank you to our friends at Curious Chef for donating this special gift, valued at 59.99.  You can find more great cooking items that make cooking so much fun for kids at Curious Chef’s website.

WE NEED YOUR HELP

We are excited to share that Nourish Interactive is also participating in a contest - The Michelle Obama,  Apps for Healthy Contest, part of the First Lady’s Let’s Move Campaign. Please support us and help us continue to grow by voting for our games to win the Popular Choice Vote.  We need your votes to help improve children’s nutrition and fight childhood obesity through positive, fun early nutrition education.  Thank you so much for your support and help!

CHILDREN’S NUTRITION SURVEY- CONTEST INFORMATION

TO ENTER DRAWING:

• Click here and complete survey
• You are automatically entered into drawing
• Each time you retweet this message, you will be entered in the contest:

Children’s nutrition survey! Share opinions & enter to WIN a Curious Chef Kids’ Cooking Set http://ow.ly/2md81 #chefsolus

SURVEY PARTICIPATION DATES:

• Survey begins Friday August 6 and will end August 14, 2010.
• Drawing will be held on August 18, 2010.
• Winner will be announced on August 20, 2010

SURVEY CONTEST RULES

Read the Terms and Condition

Chef Solus and his band of Explorers have taken the Food Pyramid Adventure and discovered many fun ways to be healthy.

TOP 10 Healthy Tips for Kids by Chef Solus

✰ Eat Foods From All Five Food Groups.
✰ Eat Lots Of Fruits And Veggies And Your Body Will Feel Great!
✰ Explorers Eat Fiber From 100% Whole Grains.
✰ Drink And Eat Foods High In Calcium For Strong Bones And Teeth!
✰ Eat Breakfast Everyday To Keep Your Mind And Body Ready For Action!
✰ Healthy Lunches Gives Us Energy Throughout The Afternoon!
✰ Eat The Right Amount!
✰ Water Is The Explorers’ Favorite Drink.
✰ Explorers Read Food Labels.
✰ Be A Move-It Kid! Be Active Every Day!

Free Food Pyramid Picture for Kids- Click for Printable PDF

See more Food Pyramid Activities and  Printable Worksheets

Healthy Balanced Meals for Kids- Food Groups Chart- Click to Print PDF

Being Active is Fun Track 60 minutes of Physical Activity- Print PDF

See more healthy habits tracking sheets and goals agreements

Please support our free nutrition games by voting for them in Apps for Healthy Kids Challenge!

Apps for healthy Kids Contest is part of the Let’s Move Campaign to fight childhood obesity. Michelle Obama and the USDA has challenged the nation to use technology to create interactive, fun games that help kids learn about nutrition.

NourishInteractive.com is thrilled to be a finalist with, not one, but FOUR game in the finals, including our newest game, Healthy Harvest Maze Game. We proudly join our fellow game developers to use technology to improve children’s health. These games use the information from the USDA nutrition dataset and are available online for free in English or Spanish

The Apps for Healthy Kids Contest will award winners based on the evaluation from a panel of judges and from YOU!

You can help us win Popular Choice Vote-  See our 4 finalist games and how to vote here

Voting ends August 14, 2010
We really appreciate your support!

Click to print full size healthy tips calendar- August 2010

See our 20+ healthy food games for kids- they are FUN and free!

The White House Let’s Move’s Apps for Healthy Kids Challenge is happening now- Voting for Popular Choice ‘People’s Award’ Voting will come to a close this Saturday morning.

Haven’t picked your favorite game yet?  There’s still time but act quick..oh and vote for Chef Solus. Why him, you ask?

Top 10 Reasons to Vote for Chef Solus’ Healthy Games for Kids Right Now

10. He’s cute, funny, smart, healthy and… loves to cook- what more could you ask for?

9. He’s going to create more healthy eating games and learning tools for schools and families, whether he wins or not!

8. Because cartoon food never tasted so good! ( & healthy!)

8. He’s definitely not looking to have his own reality show

7. Did we mention the word, free? Over 2000 schools and 40,000 parents use his games to teach kids about eating healthy!

6. He really has his heart set on being David Letterman’s next guest!

5. He already got his haircut and a new chef hat for his photo with the First Lady and the Let’s Move crew

4. His ‘Healthy Harvest Maze’ is a farm food game that promotes farms and teaches kids what fresh fruits and vegetables are, how they grow, and gives nutrition facts. Plus, it’s way better (for everyone) than that other farm game, you know ‘that’ one.

3. Polls say he’s the best candidate to have a ice cold…. fresh fruit and veggie smoothie with!

2. His motto: The Fun Way to Learn About Nutrition! Fun and nutrition in the same sentence, is a big step towards combating unhealthy food ads and messaging directed at kids!

1. It takes less than 3 minutes to vote for Chef Solus and the Food Pyramid Adventure

Ready to vote? Great!

1. Register here

2. Check your email to confirm then come back here

3. Click here for contest page- you’ll see a vote button click on it and you have voted for Chef Solus!

Thank you, together we can create a healthier future for all children. Over 2000 schools and communities and 40,000 members use the games to teach children about eating healthy and being active. If Nourish Interactive wins more children and families will discover his fun nutrition games,  tools and tips for wellness.  They are all free and available in English or Spanish.

Voting information in Spanish here

Interested in helping out more? Great we have 3 more games up for Popular Choice Award

Kevin’s Build a Meal Tool

Healthy Harvest Maze Game

Ride the Food Label Game

Chef Solus Food Pyramid Adventure

Wow, thank you for taking time to vote for all 4!

About Nourish Interactive

Apps for Healthy Kids Challenge created by Let’s Move is part First Lady Michelle Obama’s campaign to end childhood obesity. In the Spring, she challenged developers to use innovative games and media technology tools to teach children about nutrition, in a fun and engaging way to help fight childhood obesity. There are 95 games and tools on the Apps for Healthy Kids Website to try online and voters are needed to vote for their favorites!