Healthy Bodies Healthy Minds

The Healthy Bodies Healthy Minds program is an eight week three part program. The program includes a fitness activity, making and eating a healthy snack, and a project or a puzzle to make you think! The program is designed for 4th - 6th grade, but can easily be tweaked for younger children or older. 

This program evolved from an idea by my supervisor, and I was given the go ahead to plan what I thought the program should look like. Some of the activities were things found online, others remembered from childhood, and most of the fitness activities were activities I was already familiar with. This program was interesting, fun to plan, and quite different from typical library programming.

             

Salsa from the first day!

          

Fruit Pizza!

    Newspaper Structures!         

 







Week One: 
Activity; Yoga
Snack: Salsa
Challenge: Newspaper Towers

Healthy Bodies Healthy Minds Week 1 Handout

Week Two 
Activity: Kick Boxing
Snack: No-Bake Granola Bars
Challenge: DIY Toothpaste

Healthy Bodies Healthy Minds Week 2 Handout

Week Three 
Activity: HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training)
Snack:  "Digestive" Apple Sauce
Challenge: Crocheting

Healthy Bodies Healthy Minds Week 3 Handout 

Week Four 
Activity: Zumba
Snack: Fruit Pizza
Challenge: Human Knot

Healthy Bodies Healthy Minds Week 4 Handout

Week Five 
Activity: Line Dancing
Snack: Banana Split Bites and Apple Donuts
Challenge: Brain Teasers and Riddles

Healthy Bodies Healthy Minds Week 5 Handout

Week Six 
Activity: Simon Says: Fitness Edition
Snack: DIY Trail Mix
Challenge: DIY Birdfeeders

Healthy Bodies Healthy Minds Week 6 Handout

Week Seven
Activity: Hula Hooping
Snack: Yogurt Parfaits
Challenge: Straw Towers to Hold Buckets

Healthy Bodies Healthy Minds Week 7 Handout

Week Eight 
Activity: Yoga
Snack: Smoothies
Challenge: Balloon Towers

Healthy Bodies Healthy Minds Week 8 Handout

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