Playing with Food

This week on The Children’s Hour we are joined by FoodPlay Productions. It is an Emmy Award-winning, nutrition education company that creates fun-fun-filled tools, resources, and programs to make nutrition come alive for children across the country.

FoodPlay’s shows, educational resources, and media campaigns have earned a host of national awards, outstanding evaluations, and rave reviews for their innovation and effectiveness in improving the nutrition and health habits of the nation’s youth.

FoodPlay Productions’ programs and resources have been created under sponsorship by the US Department of Agriculture, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation, and Departments of Public Health and Education throughout the country. They collaborate with school districts, government agencies, corporate partners, and community organizations to create customized programs that address the unique and diverse needs of population groups in order to trigger school-wide excitement, engaging stakeholders to work together to create healthy school environments with access to healthy food for all.

Join the Crew, DJ Kale, ToBe Fit the juggling magician, and Barbara Storper, MS, RDN, who is the founder of FoodPlay. We play games with food trivia related to My Plate and much more.

Plus we are joined by Jon Ghahate, Museum Cultural Educator at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to teach us about indigenous American foods. What everyday foods came from the Western Hemisphere?

All this plus great music sure to make you hungry, and celebrate delicious nutritious food, glorious food, this week on The Children’s Hour.

Playing With Food Playlist

title	artist	album	duration	label
Eatin' Weeds	Formidable Vegetable	Grow Do It	03:11	2016 8 POUND GORILLA RECORDS
Ice Cream	Asheba	In the Kid Zone	02:31	2009 DAVID ASHEBA WILSON ,COV PROD
Junk Food	Wookiefoot	Be Fearless and Play	03:31	2009 Wookiefoot
Loopy	Blue Dot Sessions	The Balloonist	00:34	2018 Blue Dot Sessions
Eat My Breakfast	Sara Hickman	Healthy Food for Thought	01:36	2010 Healthy Food for Thought
I Love Bacon	The SOKS	The Stuff Our Kids Say	02:08	2021 Kids Say
Ain't Gonna Eat No Pigs No Mo'	Ada C. Washington	Aunty K n'Em(tm) in Pigsburgh(tm)	02:11	2006 Vada Inc.
We Are the Vegetables (Dickies and Vans Mix)	Parry Gripp	We Are the Vegetables - Single	01:09	2021 Parry Gripp
Apple Tree	Justin Roberts	Great Big Sun	01:43	1997 Justin Roberts
The Star Inside the Apple	Ellis Paul	Ellis Paul-The Dragonfly Races	00:54	2008 Blackwolf Records
Another Day	Ketsa	Goodnight Sunlight	00:27	Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives
Don't Play With Your Food	Jambo	Hootenanny	02:09	2013 Steve Pierson
Planted Corn	James Bilagody	Sing for Me	01:20	1999 Tom Bee / Soar
Homegrown Tomatoes	Jay Ungar	Relax Your Mind	03:50	2003 Angel Records
Potato Song	Cathy Fink & Marci Marxer	Bon Appetit	01:37	Rounder