Welcome to KidsEatWell.org!

Visit the links below to help you make smart food choices, learn how to cook, stay active, play some games, and have fun!

***Look for the preschool-age appropriate activities

New! Kidnetic.com for Kids - a cool site for kids who like to play hard and have fun. Kidnetic.com lets kids tap into their own energy so they can feel great all day long. Try making one of the fun Kidnetic.com recipes, use the Kidnector virtual messaging service to connect with your parents, play fun games inside or outside, by yourself or with friends. Learn cool stuff about how your body works, how eating right helps you play better and feel good and how staying active is lots of fun!

New! Meet The Taste Buddies! - This website from The American Institute for Cancer Research introduces kids to The Taste Buddies, six characters that each have a specialty in nutrition and fitness. Explore each of their worlds and learn fun facts about nutrition, how to prepare easy, delicious and healthy recipes, new games to increase fitness, and how to grow items in a garden to eat.

Sid the Science Kid - an online game for younger children from PBS that teaches good nutrition habits.

Kids in the Kitchen - a website which includes fitness and nutrition tips, games and activities for kids. It also includes a virtual recipe collection from celebrity chefs, local restaurateurs, celebrity moms and nutrition experts.

Veggie Adventures - From the Love Your Veggies campaign, a series of three online games that challenge players to grow vegetables without animals and insects eating them first, drive crates to the market, and feed vegetables to as many hungry kids as possible.

Spot The Block from The Cartoon Network - Kids will love this multimedia web site filled with hip music, videos, games, free poster downloads, etc., all with fun food fact messages.

Fruit & Veggie Color Champions TM - Play fun games with your favorite fruit or veggie friend.  Download your artwork to be hung in the cool art gallery!

The Incredible Adventures of the Amazing Food Detective - Get secretly trained to be a Junior Food Detective and help solve the Unhealthy Habit Mystery. 

Spatulatta—cooking 4 kids online - Kids teach kids how to cook.

Kids-a-Cookin’ - Watch how to make easy and yummy recipes. 

Nutrition Explorations: A world of activities - Explore the world of nutrition with Arianna and Little D and learn to stay fueled for fun.

Nutrition Café - Build a meal in the Have-a-Bite Café or be a detective and solve tough nutrition cases.   

The Go Healthy Challenge - Pledge to be a Go Healthy Champion and check out some awesome ways to stay active.  You and your friends can even start your own Go Healthy Club.

The Great Grub Club - Come play fun games with the Great Grub Gang and learn that being healthy is fun!

Cooking with Kids - Watch and learn how to create tasty, healthy foods in a snap. 

TeensHealth - Ever wonder if diets are really safe? Or how you can excel at sports? Get the lowdown on healthy eats, dieting, strength training and more. 

Milk Matters for Kids - Got milk?  Crack the calcium code and help Bo get to the Calcium Fair.  

What Moves U? - Learn moves that NFL players use to stay fit.  Earn cool prizes just for being active. 

Strawberryville - Play fun games in the garden or clubhouse.  Learn how to make some yummy snacks with strawberries. 

Disney Fit Forever Champ Camp - Your favorite Disney characters will show you that eating healthy is easy.  Become a champ at the Fit Forever Camp.                

Powerful Girls Have Powerful Bones - Lots of cool info on how to be a powerful girl.

Eat and Move - Fun games and cartoons show you that it’s cool to be healthy!

KidsHealth - Fun games and activities to play to help you eat healthy, stay fit and take care of your body! 

Smart-Mouth.org - Find out how your favorite fast foods and snacks stack up.  Figure out fun brainteasers about popular foods.  

The Great Plant Escape - Help Bud and Sprout find clues to solve Detective LePlant’s mysteries.

Power Panther Calorie Challenge - Take the Power Panther's challenge as he takes you through a series of questions about favorite foods and how much exercise it would take to burn those calories.

*** Bean’s Vegetable Garden - Find the vegetables hidden under the bushes, make pairs. 

***Campground Dash  - Help Lazlo find and eat healthy snacks to keep moving!

***Focus on Food - A game from PBS that shows close up photos of fruits and vegetables and kids need to identify them.

***MyPyramid Blast Off Game - Fuel up your rocket with healthy choices.

***Nightmare on Veggie Street - a silly fill-in-the-blank game that creates a story with your children’s ideas and inputs.

***WIC Preschool Activity Sheets - a nice selection of activity sheets for children ages 2-4 that teach about nutrition in a fun way, through activities and games. Available in English and Spanish.

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