FoodPlay Productions

10/09/2026

🎪 This National School Lunch Week - Turn your cafeteria into the Greatest Show on Earth!

National School Lunch Week is fast approaching from October 12 – 16th and this year's "Cafeteria Circus" theme is a perfect match for our fun-filled FoodPlay Videos!

For a rollicking, exciting, and easy idea - Play our fun-filled nutrition videos in your cafeteria throughout breakfast and lunch and turn your Cafeteria into a Nutrition Circus! Kids can laugh, learn, and celebrate healthy eating while enjoying the great meals your staff works so hard to prepare!

You can order them today and easily download them for quick access! Each Video Kit features our whole show and our show in bite-size videos for easy presentation, along with nutrition activity kits filled with fun lesson plans and reproducible activity sheets. And, there only $195 to own and show now and for years to come!

Schools can use the videos during National School Lunch Week, National Nutrition Month, classroom lessons, assemblies, health fairs, or anytime you want to make nutrition education fun.
Turn your cafeteria into a Cafeteria Circus - and let the show begin!

Choose from three FoodPlay Video favorites here at our store: https://www.foodplay.com/shop/

🎪 ToBe Fit, The Juggling Nutrition Magician Show - Now in Video!
ToBe Fit, our enchanting performer brings together awesome feats of circus arts with juggling, music, magic, comedy, and audience participation to bring healthy eating and active living to life! Video kit includes 10 bite-size videos (5-7 minutes each) along with one full size video of the whole show (45 minutes). Plus hands-on activity sheets you can reproduce and hand out!

🎬 FOODPLAY on the Big Screen
Our national award-winning live FOODPLAY theater show features fun-filled performances with awesome feats of juggling, music, magic, and audience participation to make nutrition come to life. This video kit includes our 45 minute FOODPLAY performance as well as the show divided into 14 short vignettes (3-7 minutes each) which address the major food and nutrition issues affecting today’s children. Just set up a monitor, and show the videos in your cafeteria to bring fun-filled circus arts to showcase your healthy offerings and help kids make their choices healthy ones.

🥕 Janey Junkfood’s Fresh Adventure! Video Storybook
This colorful video kit brings our popular children’s book to life in several short segments, combining circus arts with reading. This whimsical story helps children get off the junk food track and make healthy eating, a fun-filled FRESH Adventure!

Find our Video Kits and Fun Resources here: https://www.foodplay.com/shop/

Happy National School Lunch Week!
Best,
Barbara Storper, MS, RD

Created by FoodPlay Productions: A National Leader in Children's Nutrition
10 National Awards + an EMMY!
Evidence-Based with Proven Results!
Rave Reviews • Over 5,000,000 children reached!

Live & Virtual Shows, Fun-Filled Videos, and Hands-On Resources. 10 National Awards + an EMMY! Rave Reviews – Over 5,000,000 children served!

09/24/2026

Some ideas to celebrate National School Lunch Week - Oct 13th - 16th - This year's theme - "Cafeteria Circus".

I put together a free “Making It Cool to Eat at School - Celebrate Our School Lunch Heroes!” color poster you can print and a coloring sheet that you can hand out to kids to color, and if you want, make a Kids Art Gallery wall in the cafeteria with their artwork. I think they look kinda circusy cause the veggies are having a lot of fun, and I think its good for us to put the spotlight on school food service folks as heroes!!! Anyone is welcome to use.

We also have some other free, kid-friendly nutrition materials that might be helpful for celebrating the week. Just go to: https://www.foodplay.com/free-materials/free-materials/ and scroll down to "Free Materials for Parents and Educators".

And, thanks for your incredible work feeding our kids in this crazy challenging world!

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Free Materials Welcome! Thank you for your dedicated work educating and feeding our kids! What a difference a healthy meal makes! We know how hard you work and how much is on your plate! And, we’re here to help! Bring our live and virtual theater shows, video kits, and fun-filled resources to your...

09/18/2026

We're excited to help you celebrate National School Lunch Week - Oct 12th - 16th - and its theme -
"Cafeteria Circus!"!

That's what we at FoodPlay are all about!

We have lots of fun resources to share and we can even bring our fun-filled, award-winning school assembly - "ToBe Fit, The Juggling Nutrition Magician Show" to your school to PUT THE SPOTLIGHT ON your School Nutrition Programs!

Message us or email us at: [email protected] to learn more about bringing our ToBe Fit, The Juggling Nutrition Magician Show to your school - live-in person or for fun-filled video kits and other cool Cafeteria Circus resources!

Check out our Shows, Free Materials, and Fun Nutrition Education Resources for your Schools here: https://www.foodplay.com/

08/13/2026

Talk about a toxic food environment - here's a minute of my walk going to the check-out counter at WalMart! We're bombarded by candy, soda, chips, everywhere we turn...I think it's time that stores create a healthier food environment for their customers!

06/18/2026

So excited to have our new ToBe Fit, The Juggling Nutrition Magician presenting shows in schools, libraries, farmers markets, and summer feeding sites this summer! Here's a short testimonial from the Willington, CT library who brought the show to her local elementary school! https://youtu.be/YsYj4JastfE

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

05/01/2026

I'm thrilled to share that we were interviewed on "How I Built This" about the future of FoodPlay and it will be aired on NEPM (New England Public Radio) tomorrow, Saturday at 10 am! For other areas in US, check your local NPR station for the show. Or you can try to stream it anytime online, or try these Spotify or Wondery links below.

In the interview, we talk about the journey of building FoodPlay—how we’ve worked to make nutrition come alive for kids through the fun-filled power of live theater. And, Guy Raz along with Jet Blue and Breeze Airlines founder, David Neeleman gave us advice about how best to continue our mission to reach more kids with these increasingly important messages in today's world.

Hope you can catch the show and support our work, and please visit us at www.foodplay.com to learn more!

Or Stream here:
https://open.spotify.com/show/6E709HRH7XaiZrMfgtNCun
https://wondery.com/.../10386-advice-line-with-david.../

04/30/2026

I’m thrilled to share that I was just interviewed about the future of FoodPlay on the NPR Show - "How I Built This with Guy Raz"!

The segment is airing starting today, Thursday, April 30th, on your local NPR station (check your local schedule), or you can stream it anytime online. Or try these spotify and wondery links below.

In the interview, we talk about the journey of building FoodPlay—how we’ve worked to make nutrition come alive for kids through the fun-filled power of live theater. And, Guy Raz along with Jet Blue and Breeze Airlines founder, David Neeleman gave us advice about how best to continue our mission to reach more kids with these increasingly important messages in today's world.

Hope you can catch the show and support our work, and please visit us at www.foodplay.com to learn more!

https://open.spotify.com/show/6E709HRH7XaiZrMfgtNCun

https://wondery.com/shows/how-i-built-this/episode/10386-advice-line-with-david-neeleman-of-jetblue/

Live & Virtual Shows, Fun-Filled Videos, and Hands-On Resources. 10 National Awards + an EMMY! Rave Reviews – Over 5,000,000 children served!

04/29/2026

What a blast we had making nutrition come alive during our afterschool workshops with 4th and 5th graders, part of the OPMAD Afterschool Program in Hartford Public Schools! Kids jumped into the fun—acting, playing, and exploring how they can choose foods that are good for their health and the health of the planet too! We served up our own recipe of fresh strawberry shortcake which was a bit hit. And, last week we made "Veggie Grab-Bags" filled with cherry tomatoes, baby carrots, and cucumber wheels, great to bring along when you're on the run. The best advice for parents I think is to serve up fresh veggies with a dip at a time when your kids are at their hungriest...like after school or when waiting for dinner, kids will eat those veggies right up!