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Ideas for Activities
Ideas for Activities Focused Advertising Tricks
Check out the Don’t Buy It site for lots of good ideas to try out with your kids. This is a great resource to use when starting to teach your kids about how to become critical consumers of media messages.
http://r53-vip-soup.pbskids.org/dontbuyit/

Some places to start exploring this site would be:
Food Advertising Tricks You Should Know About. Have you ever wondered how the food in ads is made to look so appealing when in real life, you often discover that the food doesn’t look quite as good. Don’t miss checking out:
http://r53-vip-soup.pbskids.org/dontbuyit/buyingsmart/hotorsnot.html

Another fun activity to try with your child is:
Create Your Own Ad.
Learn about the process of creating an ad as you try to create an ad of your own.
http://r53-vip-soup.pbskids.org/dontbuyit/advertisingtricks/

Be sure to have your child try the Ad Detective activity. Many times children don’t’ recognize that ads are all around us. This is a good activity for helping to raise their awareness.
http://r53-vip-soup.pbskids.org/dontbuyit/advertisingtricks/betheaddetective_1.html
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Explore a Webquest
The goal of this Web quest is to help your elementary age child understand the persuasive techniques that are used in advertising and how to use these techniques to share their own positive message.
http://www.yesnet.yk.ca/schools/wes/webquests_themes/media/media_sofie/introduction.html
Introduction
Make A Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBUf-ViSR6A
Make your own video about food choices. See this video created by sixth-grade students about junk food.
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Try the Ad Decoder
Brought to you by the CDC, this interactive activity examining health issues as they are presented in magazines. Your preteen may be encouraged to visit this site.
http://medbox.iiab.me/modules/en-cdc/www.cdc.gov/bam/life/ad-decoder.html

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How many toys could you buy
So your child keeps wanting to go back to the fast food restaurant just so he/she can collect more of the TV or movie figurines that are included when you buy the “kids’ meal.”

Calculate how much money your family would save if you didn’t purchase all those meals just to collect the toys. Have your child think about what kind of toy you might be able to purchase with your savings. You might even want to go online together and go to a toy site where your child could pick a toy that your family could buy with the savings.

Another interesting idea is to go online and find out what cheap toys similar to the ones that your child is seeking would cost if they were purchased in bulk. You might just discover that you could soon buy an entire bag of similar figurines with your savings!
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Dining Decisions Game
Encourage your children to visit Body and Mind (BAM) brought to you by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention site, BAM. Try out the dining decisions game as a way to initiate conversation about food choices.
https://www.cdc.gov/healthyschools/bam/mobileapp.html

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Fruit and Veggie Art Projects
To help encourage kids to eat more fruits and vegetables, some find it helpful to get them involved in making their own art projects with some of their favorite fruit and veggie favorites. Check out the Action for Food Art website for food art ideas.
https://www.actionforhealthykids.org/activity/food-art/

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Healthy Eating Games

For a wealth of ideas about games and activities designed to encourage healthy eating, be sure to check out Kids Corner.

Nutrition Explorations_ Kids
Have your kids check out the Power Panther on the site brought to you by the US Department of Agriculture. In the Farmer’s Market section of this site, the kids will find interactive activities designed to encourage healthy food choices. There are activities on this site for 4-6 year olds and their 7-10 year old brothers and sisters.
https://fns-prod.azureedge.net/sites/default/files/PP_userguide.pdf

The British Nutrition Foundation website offers some interactive activities designed to get your child thinking about where food comes from. There are activities for 5-7 year olds as well as 8-11 year olds on this site.
https://www.nutrition.org.uk/life-stages/toddlers-and-preschool/learning-to-love-vegetables/

The site sponsored by Washington Growers offers interactive activities, child-centered recipes, and fun facts about Washington tree fruits. See this section of the site, for example, sponsored by Washington Apple Commission:
http://www.bestapples.com/kids/
Home Page - Just For Kids - Washington Apple Commission

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