Healthy Family Outdoor Activities: Ways families can enjoy healthful recreation and benefit by spending time together

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School's out, summer's in! Looking for ways to keep your children busy? Ways to strengthen your family by spending time together? This month we are focusing on ways to help families enjoy healthy outdoor activities together. Here are just a few of the many resources offered through CYFERnet to help strengthen families by spending time together and enjoying the great outdoors!

Family Fun Activities
This site provides age-appropriate suggestions for fun activities that families can enjoy and benefit from together.

Family Time (Ages 4-6) [pdf]
This fact sheet contains suggestions on fun activities for families with young children. The activities are geared to summer and outdoor activities.

Families: Eating Smart and Moving More
Offers suggestion on way to make healthier choices--as a family!

School Age Children and Physical Activity
Offers suggestion on ways to plan family exercise activities so that parents and children can exercise together and have fun.

How to Increase Your Family's Physical Fitness
Offer suggestions on simply ways to increase your families level of physical activity

Let's Go Parents
This site offers simple ways to teach your child that exercise is important and fun!

Healthy Kids, Healthy Families: Physical Activity Can Make the Connection [pdf]
This brochure has suggestions on ways for families to spend time together by planning family adventures and family fitness vacations.

Celebrating as Families
Research continues to find that families who celebrate together are healthier and better able to meet the challenges of modern day living. This fact sheet provides suggestions on ways to celebrate as families.

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