Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences

Healthy Habits for Life, a collaboration between the Avampato Discovery Museum, West Virginia Public Broadcasting System and the Kanawha County Library System, tackles critical health issues facing the citizens of West Virginia, including obesity, diabetes, tobacco use, and oral health. The goal of the project is to educate young children and their caregivers about the essentials of healthy living and to instill these healthy habits at an early age. Drawing on well-loved Sesame Street characters, the project will develop nutrition and literacy-based programs for adults, Sesame Street storytimes for pre-schoolers, and presentations by children's authors who have used health-related themes in libraries, schools, and at the West Virginia Book Festival. The museum will present a major exhibit entitled "Sesame Street Presents…The Body." The project will also fund a school-based artist-in-residency program and a professional puppet theater touring group.