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World Heart Day Kids’ Activities

World Heart Day helps to bring attention to cardiovascular health. Even though your child may not think about the issues surround heart health often, they can still mark this special holiday. Check out the easy ideas that can help your child to celebrate World Heart Day and learn more about the cardiovascular system. Heart Health Fun Run Your kiddos can learn more about the heart-healthy benefits of exercise with a family fun run. Create your own mini marathon track around the neighborhood. Run the race together, timing each family member. Craft medals using cardboard, ribbon and kitchen foil or metallic...

Parent-Child Activities for World Heart Day

The last Sunday of September is World Heart Day. Even though your child might not need to worry about her heart health right now, it’s never too early to learn about how the body works and what it takes to maintain it. While you don’t need to get in-depth with your very young child (it’s not likely that your preschooler will understand a detailed biology lesson), you can help her to learn a thing or two about heart health. How? Check out these easy activities! Healthy Eating What you eat is important to how healthy your heart is. Teach this...