Hydration Station Box

 What’s Included

• New & Exciting Recipes: Show kids how much fun hydration can be with homemade drink recipes they won’t believe they can make, including a Strawberry Mango Slushie, Lemon Cucumber Water, and Banana Milk.

• 4-Part Activity Booklet: Break down the science behind hydration and your body, become an expert on waterways and clean water, dive into tasting and rating lots of liquids, and explore how you can tell it's time to hydrate.

• Step-by-Step Parent’s Guide: Follow step-by-step instructions for guiding your child through the included activities to make the most of their nutrition journey and your time together.

• Juicy Activity Pages: Extend learning and fun with an orange juice maze, hydration matching game, and a liquid search-and-find challenge.

• DIY Drinking Cup Project: Kids will decorate a one-of-a-kind cup that they can use with every meal. With the included cup, paper wrap, and colored pencils, they’ll create a design all of their own for a special drinking cup.

• Silly Straw Builder Kit: After learning how water travels in pipes, kids will create their own water system with straws and plastic connectors. Then they can use their creation to sip their drinks!

• Citrus Squeezer: Make hydration even more fun as you and your family squeeze lemons, limes, and more for refreshing fruit-flavored waters that help the whole body feel great.

*No actual food included.

Hydration Station: Making Healthy Hydration a Habit

This is the eighth box in the Nutrition Explorer 12-Month Program, exploring an often overlooked but incredibly necessary part of nutrition: hydration. After your family creates their own delicious drinks, plays with water and straw structures, and learns all about what fluids do for the body, even your littlest members will be ready to take charge of how they hydrate. This box is your chance to level up your family’s hydration game and put them in better control of their nutrition, from this day forward.

What You’ll Explore This Month:

• Hydration as part of overall nutrition: Break down the science behind hydration and how water helps support the functioning of every part of your body. Kids will see that nutrition isn’t just what they eat it’s what they drink too.

• Surprising sources of hydration: Dive into lots of liquids to investigate all kinds of hydration sources and find your favorites, like the ones you’ll make from scratch with your citrus squeezer.

• The wild journey of water: Become an expert on waterways and where the water we drink comes from, including the long journey it takes to get cleaned up—then build your own water system!

• Following your body’s lead: Explore how your body tells you it's time to hydrate, along with pro tips about when your body may need extra hydration help.

More About the Nutrition Explorer Program          

The Nutrition Explorer 12-Month Program is an immersive nutrition guide for kids and families that mixes hands-on culinary exploration with fun STEM activities, turning abstract nutrition lessons into tangible learning for the whole family.

 Each box presents a unique nutrition topic, explored through interactive lessons, hands-on fun, and delicious recipes. Every month, a 4-part curriculum booklet provides an engaging overview, fun facts, a tasting station challenge, and a nutrition expedition investigation. An included parent’s guide makes it easy to teach every lesson, and the recipes and hands-on activities bring all the learning to life. 

 Why Parents Love It:

• Empowers kids to make healthy choices

• Provides easy-to-follow, memorable learning experiences

• Fulfills homeschool requirements and is available with ESA funds

 Why Schools Love It:

• Lesson plans and materials are all included

• Hands-on option for pod schools and micro-school co-ops

• Makes after-school enrichment easy and delicious