Feeding Young Children in Group Settings
Feeding Young Children in Group Settings
Feeding Young Children in Group Settings is an educational program designed for childcare professionals, educators, food service workers and anyone who trains staff or parents on issues related to feeding.
This program includes essential lessons on child nutrition and active play to equip childcare professionals with knowledge to implement healthy eating practices and promote physical activity. Through a series of modules, you’ll explore nutrition guidelines, meal planning and the importance of creating a balanced environment for children's growth. Feeding Young Children in Group Settings offers tools and strategies for fostering good habits and improving overall child well-being.
Contact famcon@uidaho.edu with any questions about this educational program.
Resources
- Video vignettes via YouTube channel, opens to first video (full list in alphabetical order)
- Trainer materials (pdf) to help facilitate a workshop
- Trainer videotaping materials (pdf) to help record mealtimes for research or instructional purposes
- Independent Study in Idaho coursework for participants seeking academic credit
Child nutrition and active play
Training materials
Dairy
- Background information for trainers (pdf)
- Summary sheet for trainers (pdf)
- Workshop presentation (ppt)
- Workshop handout (pdf)
Fats and oils
- Background information for trainers (pdf)
- Summary sheet for trainers (pdf)
- Workshop presentation (ppt)
- Workshop handout (pdf)
Fruits and vegetables
- Background information for trainers (pdf)
- Summary sheet for trainers (pdf)
- Workshop presentation (ppt)
- Workshop handout (pdf)
Grains
- Background information for trainers (pdf)
- Summary sheet for trainers (pdf)
- Workshop presentation (ppt)
- Workshop handout (pdf)
Protein
- Background information for trainers (pdf)
- Summary sheet for trainers (pdf)
- Workshop presentation (ppt)
- Workshop handout (pdf)
Overview
Guiding principles
Benefits
Active physical play
- My vision for active physical play (pdf)
- Guiding principles (pdf)
- Complete inventory (pdf)
- Short form (pdf)
Vignette
Themed list and handouts
Browse the curated list of videos and downloadable handouts below, organized by content area. Each video is linked to our YouTube channel—simply scroll through the channel to locate your specific vignette. These resources are designed to support your teaching and enhance student engagement.
Active physical play
Child development
- Fast forward
- Help me
- I am pouring
- I need to talk about this — curriculum
- Judging amounts — development
- Little pitchers do have big ears
- Mealtime conversations
- Mealtime conversations — missed opportunity
- Mealtime conversations — supportive
- Oh, baby!
- Skills develop quickly
- That is a baby spoon
- Using utensils
- Vegtaballs — development
- Vitamin seeds — development
- Watch me drink
- Handouts (pdf)
Curriculum/evaluating mealtimes
Food safety
Forcing children to eat
Introduction
Mealtime conversations
New foods
Nutrition
Nutrition
Nutrition education
Partnering with parents
Scenarios for workshops
Self regulation
- Children choose how much
- Children should serve themselves — Development
- Picky eater
- I am pouring
- Judging amounts — Nutrition
- Many faces of serving self
- Mosquito
- Oh, baby!
- Self regulation — Comments from Susan Johnson
- Short term vs. long term
- Watch for satiety cues
- Watch my cues
- When a parent requests regulation — Comments from Susan Johnson
- Handouts (pdf)
Setting the environment
- Adults decide what, when, where
- Adults should eat with children
- Adults should sit and eat with children
- Challenge not frustrate
- Children should serve themselves — nutrition
- Food safety: survey the scene
- Little pitchers do have big ears
- Many faces of serving self
- Mine, yours and ours
- Skills develop quickly
- Thank you a tribute 1
- Thank you a tribute 2
- That is a baby spoon
- Time to eat
- Handouts (pdf)
Six principles
Special needs
Staff roles
- Adults decide what, when, where
- Adults should eat with children
- Adults should sit and eat with children
- Family style service — what it does not look like
- Family style service — what it looks like
- Help me
- I need to talk about this — curriculum
- Insensitive tourist
- Introducing new foods
- Little pitchers do have big ears
- Mealtime conversations
- Mealtime conversations — missed opportunity
- Mealtime conversations — supportive
- New foods — five senses
- No thank you bite
- No thank you bite — animated
- Short term vs. long term
- Thank you a tribute 1
- Thank you a tribute 2
- When adults eat with children
- Handouts (pdf)