Five Steps to Wash Your Hands the Right Way
1. Wet your hands with clean, running water and apply soap.
2. Lather the backs of your hands, between your fingers, and under your nails with soap.
3. Scrub your hands for at least 20 seconds.
4. Rinse your hands well under clean, running water.
5. Dry your hands using a clean towel or air dry them.
For more, go to: https://www.cdc.gov/handwashing/when-how-handwashing.html
Games
Babies or Eggs?
Who's Coming To Dinner?
Who's Coming To Dinner?
Name and animal and have your kids guess if it lays eggs or has babies! To help you get started- eggs: alligator, platypus, ostrich and babies: dogs, seals, bats.
Who's Coming To Dinner?
Who's Coming To Dinner?
Who's Coming To Dinner?
Everyone gets to pick one person to come to dinner. This can be anyone! Someone famous or not, from history or the present. Why would you invite them? What would you feed them?
Two Truths and A Tale
Who's Coming To Dinner?
Two Truths and A Tale
Go around the table and take turns sharing two events that really happened that day and one that did not. Who can guess which one is false? Bonus: you will more than likely find out something about their day that they haven't told you!
High-Low
10 Things I Love About...
Two Truths and A Tale
Go around the table and have each person say at least one "high" (a good thing that happened to them that day) and one "low" (a not-so-good thing that happened to them that day).
What's in the Sock?
10 Things I Love About...
10 Things I Love About...
One person hides a "secret" object in a clean sock. They pass the sock around the the table and let everyone feel the object on the outside of the sock. Everyone guesses what is in the sock and whoever guesses correctly gets to hid a new object.
10 Things I Love About...
10 Things I Love About...
10 Things I Love About...
Pick a topic and have each person tell 10 different things they love about the chosen topic. Example: 10 things I love about the holiday season.
Recipes
On-the-go
Peanut butter folded in a whole-wheat tortilla is the perfect snack when you're running out the door! You can add honey, sliced banana, anything!
Lite Chocolate Dessert
What you'll need:
- 1 box of graham crackers
- 1 box of sugar free jello pudding, prepared
- 8 oz container of lite whipped topping
Directions:
Alternate layers of crumbled graham crackers, chocolate pudding, and lite whipped topping. Chill, serve, and enjoy!
Submitted by Kaylee from Carter County, KY
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Additional Resources
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
9-8-8
Crisis Text Line
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Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
Talk. They Hear You.
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See the Signs, Kentucky
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