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Healthy Classroom Celebrations
Birthday parties and holiday celebrations at school provide a unique opportunity to help make healthful eating fun and exciting for children. Schools can take advantage of classroom celebrations to serve food that tastes good, is nutritious, and provides students with an opportunity for nutrition education experiences.- Constructive Classroom Rewards: Promoting Good Habits While Protecting Children’s Health (PDF)
Discusses the impact of food as a reward or punishment. Offers many examples of beneficial and inexpensive rewards. From the Center for Science in the Public Interest. - Healthy Classroom Celebrations
Provides a sample policy for healthy classroom celebrations. Offers examples of healthy classroom celebrations. From the Center for Science in the Public Interest. - Promoting a Healthy School Environment – School Celebrations (PDF)
Benefits, ideas, and resources for creating a healthy school environment. - Making the Case for Healthy Celebrations (PDF)
A healthy school nutrition environment exists when a school promotes healthy eating through words and actions.