The Go Wild with Fruits & Veggies! curriculum is currently being piloted, and will tentatively be available for distribution spring of 2010. For more information on Go Wild, please contact Sara Van Offelen.

The Go Wild with Fruits & Veggies! program:

• Contains 7 classroom lessons based on social marketing and self-efficacy principles.
• Promotes increasing fruits, vegetables and physical activity for children in 3-6th grade. 
• Positions fruits and vegetables as appealing and fun.
• Capitalizes on children’s innate interest in their natural environment, native animals and regional experiences.
• Offers experiential-based activities that enhances self efficacy.

Fun and challenging activities are built around exploring fruits and vegetables that fit into five different color groups and movement activities for the classroom. 

For example, one movement activity has children walking to the Headwaters of the Mississippi River. Animal characters such as Melanie Moose and Ricky Raccoon act as role models for healthy behaviors.

Intended outcomes for the Go Wild program includes: increased fruit and vegetable intake and physical activity, greater willingness to try new fruits and vegetables, and more frequently helping with food preparation at home.

Additional activities for school food service personnel and family members are included which reinforce systems change and create conditions in the environment that facilitate the promoted behavior changes.

Go Wild with Fruits & Veggies! Lessons:

• One:  Go Wild with Fruits & Veggies!
• Two:  Go Wild with Blue and Purple Fruits & Veggies!
• Three:  Go Wild with Red Fruits & Veggies!
  See a pilot sample Flipbook (3 MB PDF) and Newsletter (182 K PDF).
• Four:  Go Wild with Green Fruits & Veggies!
• Five:  Go Wild with Orange and Yellow Fruits & Veggies!
• Six:  Go Wild with White and Tan Fruits & Veggies!
• Seven:  Go Wild Garden Party!