Wellness Activities for Youth, Volume 1

Teach young people how to make healthy lifestyle choices

Kids won’t listen to lectures about exercise or cholesterol—but they will get involved and learn by participating in fun exercises that help them focus on leading healthy, happy lives.

Wellness Activities for Youth is a whole-person, “no-put-down” book of activities to help young people make healthy choices about physical and emotional health, relationships, stress management, substance abuse, and more. The material is ideal for kids from upper elementary to senior high. Many exercises can be adapted for families.

Wellness Activities for Youth, Volume 1, can be used by a variety of people who work with youth—counselors, camp directors, scout leaders, parents, teachers, and youth group leaders, to name just a few. Sandy says, “Any normal, fun-loving, creative, daring, kid-loving, risk-taking facilitator can create wonderful, creative, awe-inspiring, attention-getting, fun-raising, retention-building activities!” She offers excellent, easy-to-adopt advice on making your work with kids more effective and engaging the kids in new and fun ways. Build them into your program using your good judgment, flexibility, and democratic leadership style, and you’ll find it adds to the effectiveness of your program.

Volume 1 has sections on:

• Energizers and warm-ups

• Self-concept

• Personal Wellness

• Stress and coping

• Social wellness

• Values

• General wellness concepts

• Closers

Also available: Reproducible Digital Worksheet Masters (PDF) (only available with the purchase of the book)