• Family Storyteller
  • Text reading "Calendar Fun"
  • School Bus with children inside of it.
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
Tell your child "I love you" every single day! Tell knock-knock jokes Sing a song to your child Help your child send a postcard to a friend Make homemade playdough Make up a story about your family Draw a picture of yourself
Make treats together Write a wishlist of fun things to do Have a treasure hunt Dance together Tell stories about when you were a child Play with your child's favorite toys Listen to your child tell stories
Read the comics together Write your child a surprise note Tell your child how important they are Go to the Library for story time Play a game together Make homemade smelly playdough Pretend to be secret agents all day
Look at family pictures Make a paper bag puppet Make a card for someone special Snuggle and read a bedtime story Cook dinner together Call a relative and let everyone talk on the phone Read "Our Family Stories" book
University of Nevada, Reno Extension 2018, Family Storyteller | Calendar Fun, Extension, University of Nevada, Reno

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Also of Interest:

 
Money Sense for Your Children - The Spending Plan
This fact sheet is lesson 4 of the Money Sense for Your Children and will explore money management and how to create a spending plan by understanding the needs and wants of children.
 Koehler, C., Crites, A., Behal, P., and Horton, S. 2006, Extension | University of Nevada, Reno, FS-06-96
Money Sense for Your Children - Saving and Sharing
This fact sheet is lesson 3 of The Money Sense for Your Children series which explores how children can save and share their money.
 Koehler, C., Crites, A., Behal, P., and Horton, S. 2006, Extension | University of Nevada, Reno, FS-06-95
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Snack & Mealtime Routines
A regular routine of meals and snacks helps discourage eating all day, and preschoolers like it because they know what to expect.
 Lindsay, A., & Buffington, A. 2021, Extension | University of Nevada, Reno, FS-21-103
Preschoolers Build Fundamental Motor Skills Critical to an Active Lifestyle: The All 4 Kids© Intervention Study
This pragmatic, real world study examined the effects of the All 4 Kids© intervention on preschoolers’ mastery of movement skills and determined whether the instruction had greater impact than natural development.
 Anne R. Lindsay 1,*, Angela Starrett 2 , Ali Brian 3 , Teresa A. Byington 1, Jennifer Lucas 4 and Madeleine Sigman-Grant 2020, International Journal of Enviornmental Research and Public Health
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Preschoolers can distinguish between healthy and unhealthy foods: The All 4 Kids Study
This study determined changes in preschoolers' ability to distinguish between healthy and unhealthy foods and stated food preferences after participation in a nutrition education program.
 Sigman-Grant, M., Byington, T., Lindsay, A., Lu, M., Mobley, A., Fitzgerald, N. & Hildebrand, D. 2013, Journal of nutrition education and behavior, 03/2014, Volume 46, Issue 2
 

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Healthy Kids Resource Center

A one-stop shop for evidence-based research, resources, curricula, activities and materials that focus on obesity prevention for teachers and parents of young children. It is designed to educate parents and teachers as well as provide the tools needed to teach young children how to live a healthy lifestyle.