Extension’s Healthy Kids Festival: Free Household Enjoyable Sept. 26

Getting youngsters engaged and growing wholesome habits doesn’t need to be uninteresting or a chore. University of Nevada, Reno Extension’s annual Healthy Kids Festival, which celebrates all issues associated to wellness, returns with an occasion designed to assist youngsters uncover the enjoyment of wholesome consuming and bodily exercise. 

Extension invitations households with younger youngsters to its annual competition, 11 a.m. – 2 p.m., Sept. 26, that incorporates a day of enjoyable interactive actions, together with music and dancing, gardening, chef demonstrations, a fruit and vegetable market, prizes, and extra. This 12 months’s occasion features a partnership with UNLV’s Nevada Institute for Children’s Research and Policy to deliver its Step Up for Kids annual occasion to attending youth.

This free occasion will probably be on the Pearson Community Center, 1625 W. Carey Ave., and is open to all however is particularly designed for households with youngsters between the ages of three and 11 years previous. 

“We’re excited to show kids that healthy living is fun and easy,” Kylie Mansanas, Extension program officer, mentioned. “Parents not only get access to this fun-filled day for their kids but will also leave with valuable resources for their families and children.”

At the occasion, mother and father and households will learn to assist and mannequin optimistic and wholesome consuming habits and tips on how to incorporate bodily exercise into their younger youngsters’s each day routines. As a part of the Step Up for Kids occasion, youngsters will be taught in regards to the electoral course of as they vote on the youth mayor for Clark County. The program is presently accepting functions from fourth and fifth graders interested by working till Friday, Sept. 4. 

The Healthy Kids Festival is held each September, which is National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month, and is sponsored by the Southern Nevada Health District. 

While the occasion is free, advanced registration is inspired. For extra data, contact Mansanas at kmansanas@unr.edu. 

Persons in want of particular lodging or help ought to contact Mansanas, kmansanas@unr.edu or 702-948-5965, not less than 5 days previous to the scheduled occasion with their wants or for extra data.