Are you looking for help in teaching your preschooler/kindergartner about real food and making healthy lifestyle choices? How about a simple hands-on curriculum that would instruct your youngest learners on what are good natural food items as well as practical knowledge for every day illness preventions? I am excited to introduce you today to Vintage Remedies newest resource titled, Vintage Remedies for Kids by Jessie Hawkins.
Vintage Remedies for Kids is a simple hands-on workbook that teaches health and natural living to boys and girls ages 2-6. It covers a wide variety of topics related to natural living including wellness, nutrition, immunity, natural body care, and the conservative use of valuable natural resources – in terms they will understand and remember!
Each of the 18 lessons in this 202-page spiral bond book has a parent introduction section, an age appropriate read aloud lesson for your little ones, simple discussion questions to build and expand upon the content of the lesson, and 2-3 hands-on projects to visually reinforce the lesson. Enjoy preparing a selection of healthy snacks with your child including green smoothies, popsicles, and granola bars. Other fun activities include making a color wheel of food chart to help reinforce a variety of colors in their diet, compiling a real food collage with pictures, growing a garden, and so much more. The workbook is flexible and can be used for playgroups, as a fun family project, or a health course for your homeschooling routine.
Keep in mind this is a basic spiral bond book and does not contain any pictures or art work. While the lessons can be fully completed without these features, I do hope that will add some more colorful imagery or coloring pages to help keep the attention of these little ones in future additions.
Overall, I was greatly impressed by the content of this resource and believe it to be an extremely helpful tool for introducing the concepts of real food and nutrition to our little ones and will surely be enjoyed by all ages! I anticipate using it while homeschooling my two little ones this fall!
Vintage Remedies offers a wealth of online educational courses in herbalism to help equip your family in natural health care.
Today, we are giving away two copies of Vintage Remedies for Kids to our readers!
To Enter:
1. Write a comment below and share your favorite tip, idea, or resource on how to discuss healthy food and lifestyle choices with your little ones.
2. For a second optional entry, become a fan of Vintage Remedies on Facebook. Let us know in a second comment below.
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Giveaway Closed.
And the winners are…
Jessica – jenniferli6@…
Beth – adam.and.beth@…
Congratulations!
I’ve been struggling with this issue and feel as though I don’t have any good tips on how to discuss these topics and live this “alternative lifestyle” without our children feeling “weird.” Subsequently, I’d love to have this resource!
Liked vintage remedies on Facebook.
Our favorite way to teach kids healthy food choices is by having a garden and taking them regularly to the farmer’s market. Awesome giveaway!
We go through recipes and various websites and actually choose something new to try a few times a month. Then it’s a search at a farmer’s market for a new ingredient!
One way that I try to help my kiddos with healthy living is explaining why we make some of the healthy choices we do. Sometimes they will ask why we don’t do xyz like a friend does and I try to give them a simple, non-judgmental explanation of why we believe it’s better not to do it. Or when we’re at the store and they want to buy something unhealthy, we talk about why it isn’t good for us and what some better alternatives would be.
I think this a wonderful idea! I am a contact for a home educators group in our area and we have numerous younger children just excited about learning. I think this would be a good fit. I liked on my facebook, and would love to win and write a review on my blog as well.
I liked Vintage Remedies on Facebook!
I think it’s important to involve your kids in meal preparation, so they can see and experience real foods!
I liked Vintage Remedies on FB.
I just explain our decisions to our daughter, because she asks so many questions. She makes it very easy.
I love to have my children help pick things out at the grocery store because then they see it and see us buy it and they are more likly to try it. I would love to win this book to give me more direction it teaching our children real foods
I also like Vintage Remedies on Facebook!
I love just talking about whatever we’re currently eating; especially if it’s not a favorite, this encourages more eating!
Sounds like a wonderful curriculum! I am really interested in looking this over and would be willing to make the time to work through something like this with my kiddos.
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Can’t wait to read through all the tips when I get a spare moment. Just teaching by example here with a 3 and 1 year old. Thanks for posting this. Had no idea this place is so close to me (I live in Nashville).
I honestly don’t have any tips…that’s why I would love to win this!
My husband and I are just beginning our full jump into real food. We’ve ‘dabbled’ in it here and there in the past, but we just completed a course, and we’re taking the leap. I would love to win this giveaway to help us as we teach our kids about all of the healthy changes we’re making!
This sounds like an excellent book! We tried to grow a small garden this summer, but the oppressive heat and lack of rain made it pretty difficult. My 2.5 LOVES any type of fruit ever. I love to hear her say, “May I can have cantaloupe pleeeeeease?” or “Thank you for buberries.”
The easiest way to teach kids to make good choices is for the adults to make good choices! Together, my daughter and I make homemade body scrub, pick veggies from our garden, and bake healthy desserts.
Hi! I became a FB fan!
Cooking with kids, or grown-ups for that matter, make whole foods fun for all.
I also liked vintage remedies on facebook!
This sounds like a great resource. My favorite way to discuss healthy lifestyle with my little ones is to grow our own food and involve them in the process so they understand what goes into our food sources. Plus, you can’t get a fresher source of food than from your own backyard!
we regularly talk with our kids about “superfoods” and tell them that their plates should have lots of “color”!
I just became a fan on facebook!
I don’t do facebook, sorry. but I would like to like Vintage Remedies!