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Ask the Whole Grain Heroes Poster
Whole Grain Heroes teach families about the benefits of whole grain.  Available in English and Spanish.
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Bridge to Breakfast Consumer Brochure
A tool to personalize breakfast education for each WIC participant by using the VENA approach. This brochure includes four delicious recipes.  Available in English and Spanish.
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Bridge to Breakfast Facilitators' Guide
An overview of the research behind the benefits of breakfast and how to use participant-centered counseling in moving clients toward the breakfast habit.
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Bridge to Breakfast Slide Presentation (pdf)
How to use participant-centered counseling in moving clients toward the breakfast habit.
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Cheerios Growth Chart
A fun and useful guide for a child’s growth and development.  Available in English and Spanish.
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Empty Cereal Boxes
Need a display or packages for your WIC education classes? You can order empty cereal boxes. (WIC clinic requests only please)
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The Importance of Family Dinners
This handout includes tips for serving a quick and nutritious dinner on the run and ways to make the family meal more enjoyable.
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Getting Kids to Eat - And Like - Vegetables
This handout includes ideas for sneaking veggies into kids’ favorite foods and ways you can encourage kids to enjoy the great tastes of vegetables.
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Go With the Whole Grain for Kids 3-5 Classroom Activities- Grain Tracks
This activity will help kids students keep track of the servings of grain foods they usually eat and set a goal to eat at least three servings of whole grain foods every day.
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Go With the Whole Grain for Kids 3-5 Classroom Activities- Spreading the Word
This activity will help students identify whole grain foods that are available at their school and reasons to eat whole grains. 
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Go With the Whole Grain for Kids: Classroom Activities (complete set)
These educational and entertaining classroom activities are designed for younger and older students. They include games, art activities and problem-solving to help students identify whole grain foods and how they can add them to their daily diet.
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Go With The Whole Grain For Kids Fitness Activity - Getting Strong with Grain Boy and Grain Girl
This fitness activity includes activity cards that direct students to be active in a variety of ways. 
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Go With The Whole Grain For Kids Fitness Activity - Grains to the Mill Game
This fitness activity involves calling out movement directions to get students physically active. 
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Go With The Whole Grain For Kids Fitness Activity - Relay Races
This fitness activity involves students transporting grains in a variety of relay races.  
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Go With The Whole Grain For Kids Fitness Activity - Whole Grain Heroes in Action
This fitness activity involves reading a story with action words that the students will perform each time that word is read. 
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Go With the Whole Grain for Kids K-2 & 3-5 Classroom Activities- Grain Collage
This collage activity is a great way to help students identify whole grain foods.
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Go With the Whole Grain for Kids K-2 & 3-5 Classroom Activities- Whole Grain Helpers
This activity will help students identify whole grain foods and ways to include whole grain foods in their daily food intake or for special occasions.
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Go With the Whole Grain for Kids K-2 Classroom Activities- Grain Tracks
This activity will help students be able to identify the foods made from grains that they eat for breakfast and/or lunch.  They will be able to identify how they could eat more whole grain foods.
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Go With The Whole Grain For Kids K-2 Fitness Activity - Popcorn Popping
This fitness activity involvles reciting a rhyme and then having the students jump up whenever the word "Pop" comes up in the rhyme. 
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Go With the Whole Grain for Kids Leader Guide
This guide is intended for educators of students in Kindergarten through 5th grade. It summarizes whole grains and dietary guidance for whole grain intake, including updated information on the 2010 Dietary Guidelines and MyPlate. In addition, the leader guide provides an overview of the Go With the Whole Grain for Kids curriculum, it’s individual components and education strategies to engage students in learning about whole grain
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Go With the Whole Grain For Kids: Fitness Activities (Complete Set)
There are fitness activities for both classroom and outdoor or gym settings. These creative activities help emphasize the curriculum message that whole grains provide energy to be active and play.
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Go With The Whole Grain For Kids: Grades 3-5 Slide Program
This colorful slide program is a great way to introduce the topic of whole grains to your students. There is a slide program for both younger and older students which can be read by the teacher or leader. In this program, the students will be introduced to Grain Boy and Grain Girl the energetic Whole grain Heroes, who explain what whole grains are, the benefits of eating whole grains, how to identify whole grain foods, and how many servings of whole grains are recommended each day.
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Go With the Whole Grain For Kids: Grades 3-5 Slide Program Notes
Notes to accompany the Go With the Whole Grain For Kids Slide Program
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Go With the Whole Grain for Kids: K-2 Slide Program
This colorful slide program is a great way to introduce the topic of whole grains to your K-2 students. There is a slide program for both younger and older students which can be read by the teacher or leader. In this program, the students will be introduced to Grain Boy and Grain Girl the energetic Whole grain Heroes, who explain what whole grains are, the benefits of eating whole grains, how to identify whole grain foods, and how many servings of whole grains are recommended each day.
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Go With the Whole Grain for Kids: K-2 Slide Program Notes
Notes to accompany the Go With the Whole Grain For Kids K-2 Slide Program
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Go With the Whole Grain Leader Guide
This guide summarizes the current Dietary Guidelines and USDA MyPyramid, providing educational strategies and lesson plans to help you educate your clients in a variety of counseling and education settings.
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Go With Whole Grain for Kids K-2 Classroom Activities- Grain Chain
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Great Whole Grain Recipes
Great tasting whole grain recipes for the whole family.
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Grow Up with Breakfast, Grow Up Strong
Learn why breakfast is beneficial for children's health and how parents can serve up a better breakfast.
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Cheerios Coloring Sheet
Use Cheerios cereal with this coloring sheet to make it fun and interactive.
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Iron: The Blood Builder
This fact sheet lists important sources of iron and the role of iron in the body.
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Kick & Play Coloring Sheet
Introduces the idea of physical activity by featuring various fun-to-play activities.  Available in English and Spanish.
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Raising a Healthy Happy Eater (Slide Presentation)
Helping kids make healthy food choices can be a challenge given today’s environment. Learn how taste preferences in babies are formed and the way that plays into likes and dislikes as children age, how parent-child dynamics shape eating habits, and how kids’diets stack up against recommendations. An action plan to help parents understand the critical part they play in their kids’lives as role models and how they can help guide their child in learning to make healthy choices on their own is highlighted.
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Run & Play Coloring Sheet
Introduces the idea of physical activity by featuring various fun-to-play activities.  Available in English and Spanish.
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Toss & Play Coloring Sheet
Introduces the idea of physical activity by featuring various fun-to-play activities.  Available in English and Spanish.
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Vitamin C
This fact sheet lists important sources of vitamin C and the role of vitamin C in the body.
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What Do I Feed My Little One (English)
This brochure offers a step-by-step outline on what, when, and how to feed babies through their first year of life. What Do I Feed My Little One? provides information for new parents to help them identify safe and appropriate food choices for their growing baby.
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What Do I Feed My Little One (Spanish)
This brochure offers a step-by-step outline on what, when, and how to feed babies through their first year of life. What Do I Feed My Little One? provides information for new parents to help them identify safe and appropriate food choices for their growing baby.
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Whole Grain Coloring Sheet
Children can learn about whole grain foods while coloring.  Available in English and Spanish.
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Whole Grain Hero Coloring Sheet
Download a coloring sheet for young students learning about whole grain foods.
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Whole Grain Heroes Save Breakfast Cartoon
Fun and easy messages about whole grain and breakfast for children 2-5 years.  Available in English and Spanish
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Facts About Gluten Free Eating
Help your clients understand celiac disease and gluten, common foods with gluten-containing ingredients, and where to find more information.
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Bone Health Fact Sheet for Children
Best for use with one-on-one counseling. Educate your clients on the importance of bone health and how to get more calcium and vitamin D in their diets using our fact sheets that have been designed for different needs and lifestages.
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