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Fruit & Veggie BookbagThe Fruit and Veggie Bookbag is for students in grades K-2 and their families. The bookbag and everything inside promotes and encourages families to have fun reading together while learning about fruits and vegetables and where they come from, being active, and spending family time together.

The Fruit and Veggie Bookbag is designed for use in schools, classrooms, libraries, and out-of-school time programs. Each child in the program takes a turn bringing home the bookbag for 3-7 days, then returns it (taking out give-away items) for the next child to take home and share with his or her family.

What's Inside

Packaged in a durable zippered-tote the Fruit and Veggie Bookbag contains the following resources for 30 families:

  • Children’s books with positive messages about fruits and vegetables:
    • Muncha, Muncha, Muncha by Candace Fleming,
    • The Vegetables We Eat by Gail Gibbons,
    • Handa's Surprise by Eileen Browne,
    • Farmer's Market by Carmen Parks
  • An Educators’ Guide. This guide, for teachers or program coordinators, will walk you through the steps of setting up, creating excitement around, enhancing, and sustaining the Fruit and Veggie Bookbag program in a school, after-school program, or child care setting.
  • A Recipe Card Set (two tear pads, 30 sets). A set of 8 family-friendly, fruit and vegetables recipes on two different tear pads, to be distributed one set per family. The recipes cards have health tips and information printed on the back.
  • A Family Tip Sheet (one tear pad, 30 copies). The tip sheet, to be distributed one per family, includes information and tips for families on how to make a plan to eat more fruits and vegetables and how to help children become better readers.
  • A Family Letter. The letter explains how to use the bookbag and the other items inside the bag.
  • Plastic Zip-top Bags (30 bags). Provides storage for the Family Tip Sheet, Recipe Card Set and anything else you decide to give away to families.
  • Yours to Keep Stickers (30). One for each of the plastic ziptop bags.

Healthy Recipes Included!

  • Rainbow fruit
  • Broccoli and Chicken
  • Golden Apple Oatmeal
  • Vegetable Quesadillas
  • Michigan Applesauce
  • Perfect Pasties
  • Veggie Rolly Poly
  • Puffy Peach Pastries

Fruit & Veggie Bookbag

 

How do I order?

The Michigan Nutrition Network provides a number of products (some free and some for a small fee) to aid nutrition education. MNN Products are distributed via the MSU Extension Educational Materials Distribution Center. For instructions click Ordering here or on our drop-down menu. This book bag is item # CYFC043.
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