Child Care Centers

To promote healthy eating and physical activity in diverse child care settings, Nemours Health and Prevention Services (NHPS) is working in close collaboration with the Delaware early care and education community to:

Promote policies and practices that encourage healthy eating and physical activity.
Emphasize that healthy lifestyles start early.
Provide appropriate educational materials for providers and families.
Evaluate our efforts and report our results to the community.

The Sesame Street Healthy Habits for Life Child Care Resource Kit is Now Available!

Nemours Health and Prevention Services (NHPS) is excited to share our new toolkit, Healthy Habits for Life, which was created in collaboration with Sesame Street and KidsHealth. This new toolkit provides child care providers with resources to promote healthy eating and physical activity with preschoolers. By helping the children to start these habits now, you are helping them to be healthy for the rest of their lives.

Sesame Street Healthy Habits for Life Child Care Resource Kit:

For a printed version, please Contact Us to order a free kit for your center. Supplies are limited.

Healthy Habits Start Early!

Best Practices for Healthy Eating: A Guide To Help Children Grow Up Healthy

Together with Delaware’s Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP), Nemours Health and Prevention Services (NHPS) is providing this best practice nutrition guide to help young children in our state develop healthy eating habits early in life. Read More...

Additional Resources

Activity Kits for introducing healthy eating and physical activity in the classroom.
Creating a 5-2-1 Almost None Bulletin Board
Countdown to Health
Making Vegetable Soup
Tools & Resources for Child Care Providers
Using HealthyQuest to Keep Kids Active & Healthy
Transforming Children’s Health: How four child care programs made positive changes in their environments
Improving Children’s Social and Emotional Health through Delaware Child Care Policy
Physical Activity Guidelines