Kid-Made Ads Touting Healthy Foods Appearing in King County (Seattle) Metro Buses

This article "Kids put nutrition in picture with bus ads touting healthy foods," discusses a program which is a good example of engaging children in meaningful ways in learning and in promoting healthful eating, and utilizing public places (transit) to promote socially-beneficial messages. From the website:

After learning about how companies get our attention through vivid advertising, area students wondered if it would be possible to make their own "ads" featuring artwork promoting fresh fruit and vegetables public in their neighborhoods. This month 120 of these student-created ads have been made into interior bus billboards in King County Metro buses. Three different language versions of the ad are appearing, including Spanish, Vietnamese, and Cambodian.

Sponsored by Washington State University Extension Food$ense Program through a grant from the King County STEPS to a Healthier US, the Healthy Foods In Motion Ads will run for at least two months in conjunction with ongoing health and nutrition and gardening education curriculum in the schools developed by WSU King County Extension’s innovative CHANGE (Cultivating Health and Nutrition Through Gardening Education) program.

Paul Joseph Brown / Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Teacher Trina Anderson with Thorndyke Elementary fourth-graders Alexus Maline, Matthew Balbuene and Eunica Serafica display a poster produced for the Healthy Food in Motion campaign.