Resource Highlights for CACFP Sponsoring Organizations
The Let’s Move! Child Care (LMCC) website (www.healthykidshealthyfuture.org) is your library of free,
simple-to-use resources, inspiring ideas, and practical tips for healthy eating and activity — all in one
place. This flyer highlights just a few of the many resources you can find on the website. Three sections
of the website will be especially helpful in your efforts to support the child care providers you sponsor to
achieve all of the LMCC goals are the Resources for Trainers Page, the Free Online Trainings Page, and
the Resource Center. Remember, once a provider has met all of the goals, be sure this success is
documented using the LMCC Checklist Quiz so that the provider will be featured on the LMCC
Recognized Provider Map.
Resources for Trainers Page: Selected Highlights
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Slide Sets: Six, ready-to-go slide sets with speaker notes included are available for your use in
training providers.
LMCC Promotional Flyers: English, Spanish, and tailored to Tribal Communities
Tips for Trainers Webinars
Q&As: See answers to some of the most frequently asked questions we receive from trainers.
Free online Trainings Page: Selected Highlights
Free online training modules: Six lessons that cover background information for childhood obesity
prevention and the five best practice goals: increase physical activity, limit screen time, offer
healthy beverages, serve healthy food and support infant feeding are available through Penn State.
Resource Center Page: Selected Highlights
MyPlate Resources
Find links to several resources developed for the new food icon, MyPlate, including MyPlate for
Preschoolers, 10 Tips Nutrition Education Series, and Eating Better on a Budget
Comprehensive Guides & Job Aids
eXtension Alliance for Better Child Care Hands-on Activities Database
A searchable database you can use to find hundreds of hands-on, ready-to-do activities, including
physical activity and nutrition related activities, especially designed to help young children of different
ages learn, develop, and flourish. Search activities by children’s age, subject, or skills learned in the
activity.
Healthy Habits for Life Resource Kit
This guide (in English and Spanish) teaches child care providers and children concepts of nutrition and
physical fitness using kids' favorite Sesame Street puppet friends.
Nutrition Know-How
Exploring Food Together
Toolkit of simple activities to use with young children in the classroom or in the home to help kids learn about
new foods and start building the skills to make healthy food choices. Includes an educator guide. Available in
English and Spanish.
Making the Most of Meal Times
Tips for family style dining, encouraging children to eat a variety of healthy foods, and engaging children in
conversation during meals.
Farm to Preschool website
This clearinghouse of resources from preschool programs across the nation includes nutrition and garden-based
education curricula, advice on starting new child care gardens, and parent education workshop templates and
materials on nutrition.
Grow It, Try It, Like It! Preschool Fun With Fruits and Vegetables
A garden-themed nutrition education kit from the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, USDA's Team Nutrition.
Physical Activity Insights
Get Moving Today Activity Calendar
An ‘evergreen’ calendar that provides ideas and tips for daily activity.
Sesame Street’s We Have the Moves!
Physical activity resource kit (English/Spanish) with fun-filled activities to help incorporate activity into
daily routines.
Support Infant Feeding Decisions
How to Support a Breastfeeding Mother: A Guide for Child Care Centers
Videos Worth Viewing
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Motion Moments (the National Resource Center offers ideas for incorporating physical activity into
your program for babies, toddlers, and preschoolers; English and Spanish)
Nutrition & Physical Activity in Child Care Settings series (the Arizona Dept. of Health Services offers
videos about family-style meals, physical activity, breastfeeding, and infant nutrition)
Sesame Workshop (Sesame Street, Nemours, and Nemours' KidsHealth.org present “The Get
Healthy Now Show”; also check out tons of other videos about nutrition from the beloved Sesame
Street characters)
Core Nutrition Messages: Videos (nutrition education videos from the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
Food and Nutrition Service to show to mothers of preschool children)
Additional Resources
To better assist you in finding the resources you need to help those you sponsor, the resource center
includes the following sections:
> Spanish Resources
> For Families
> For Tribal Communities
> Let’s Move! Child Care Promotional Materials