Afterschool Alliance

The Afterschool Alliance has teamed up with Quaker® Oats to create the "Get Active: Be Healthy Afterschool Toolkit". The guide provides creative, easy-to-implement ideas for incorporating health and wellness into your afterschool program, including lesson plans, activities and games. Created as part of the Quaker Chewy Afterschool Rocks campaign, the Toolkit includes:

Tips for Afterschool Program		Get Active Afterschool Lesson Plan
Staff & Leaders		• Putting the Food Pyramid in Practice
• Modeling Behavior		• Aerobic Games
• Field Trips
• Guest Speakers		Resource Page
• Project Suggestions		• Links for more project ideas
		• Downloadable lesson plans and curriculum
Bringing It Home		• Tips for parents
• Promote Healthy Habits at Home		• Information on funding healthy activities
		• Resource organizations

Whether you want to start an entire afterschool program devoted to promoting healthy-living or instill fun physical activities to keep the children in your afterschool program fit, the “Get Active: Be Healthy Afterschool Toolkit” can help you introduce activities to kids that will encourage them to eat right, get physically active, and stay healthy.

This Toolkit is the result of a partnership between the Afterschool Alliance and Quaker® Oats to raise awareness about the importance of afterschool programs and the need to provide afterschool opportunities to all kids. More information about the partnership can be found at http://www.afterschoolalliance.org/quakerSponsorsContest.cfm and http://www.QuakerOats.com/afterschoolrocks.