Healthy Living
4-H empowers you to be healthy – body and mind – with the skills to make healthy decisions and lead healthy lifestyles. Having the confidence and skills to lead healthy lifestyles not only improves overall well-being; it enables you to tackle life’s challenges today and become leaders in your lives, careers and communities as you grow into responsible adulthood.
Healthy Living Officer
You can be the Healthy Living Officer for your club! Get the resources for Club Officers under Volunteer Roles. See our Learning Center for the training course so you can support better health for your club and community.
Mental Health Coloring Sheets
Take a break and relieve stress with these 4-H coloring sheets from Illinois 4-H.
Project Sheets
Project Sheets are a guide for Project Leaders to develop lessons with meaningful content. Families and youth may reference these as a guide for what can be covered in the project. Please click the links to see the Project Sheet — please note that we do not have Project Sheets for all projects yet.
Curriculum
4-H S.N.A.C. Club (Student Nutrition Advisory Council)
4-H SNAC (Student Nutrition Advisory Council) Clubs are student led 4-H clubs that promote leadership skills that focus on healthy living, nutrition, physical activity, cooking, and public speaking.
4-H SNAC Club is a way to integrate positive youth development and community engagement into existing nutrition (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program - Education (SNAP-Ed) or Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) programs, while increasing equitable access and opportunity to participate in 4-H among limited resource communities.
Mindful Me
Mindfulness curriculum for Primary ages 5-8.
The program promotes mindful practices that lead to improvements in managing one’s own goals, developing a sense of self, time management, stress management, emotional regulation, and mindful eating practices.
This curriculum includes ten experiential learning activities which are designed to be delivered weekly by trained teens or adult leaders. For more information and to purchase, please see the Mindful Me Collection at Shop 4-H.
Mindful Mechanics
Mindfulness curriculum for Teens and Adults.
4-H Mindful Mechanics incorporates the Essential Elements of youth development: belonging, mastery, independence, and generosity. Through 4-H Mindful Mechanics, teens are encouraged to build positive relationships through expressing care, concern and gratitude for others (belonging), build beliefs in oneself (mastery), practice self-discipline, self-control, and self-reflection (independence), and serve others.
4-H Mindful Mechanics can also serve as a training for teens that would like to lead lessons from the companion curriculum, 4-H Mindful Me, through a ‘teens as teachers’ (TAT) approach. For more information and to purchase, please see the Mindful Me Collection at Shop 4-H.