Regie’s Rainbow Adventure® is a health-based kit and curriculum for young children aged 2-5 years old. It is specifically designed for early childhood educators to implement in a variety of learning spaces, providing activities that reinforce physical health and development through a series of seven core books and four standalone stories. Children learn about the importance of fruits, vegetables, and exercise while practicing skills in many developmental domains including literacy, language, mathematics, science, and creative arts. Additional optional topics include oral health, financial literacy, social-emotional development, and Farm to ECE.

Children follow Regie, the broccoli superhero, to different islands based on the colors of the rainbow. He meets new fruit and vegetable friends and earns his power stripes by eating nutritious foods and being physically active. With each story, children will travel with Regie to a new island, move their bodies, try a new fruit or vegetable and bring healthy information home to their families.

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Why choose Regie's Rainbow Adventure® for the children in your care?

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  • Customizable programming to meet the educational needs of you and your children.
  • Supports all early learning domains, including literacy, social-emotional development, and scientific understanding.
  • Aligned with a number of curriculum models and quality standards, including NAEYC requirements and the Head Start Child Development and Early Learning Framework.
  • Successfully implemented by more than 600 diverse partners, including local Head Starts, daycares, preschools, home visiting programs, and libraries.

To review the 2024 program outcomes, please visit our Childhood Programs Outcomes page.

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The RRA® Experience

“It is delightful to see the children eat vegetables at lunch time now. They talk about Regie all the time and are more willing to taste new foods as a result of going on the adventures each week. It’s a great program and we are so thankful that we have been able to take part in it.” –Site Leader

”My son learned to eat a lot of healthy fruits and vegetables in a fun way. He likes to collect recipes and learned to know the vegetables and see them as something good.” -Parent

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Get Involved

The National Kidney Foundation of Michigan staff is available to provide a training for your early childhood staff to learn how to implement this program in their classroom. The program has been implemented in child care facilities including head starts, preschools, daycares, libraries, and public school classrooms.

To learn more about this program, please contact us by email or by phone at (313) 259-1574.

Resources for Living a Healthy Life at School and at Home

Educator Resources

  • Wondering how to encourage physical activity and healthy eating on a deeper level? Take advantage of Go NAPSACC: An evidence-based policy, systems, and environment (PSE) change program where we will work with center directors to improve the health of young children (0-5) and prevent childhood obesity through practices, policies, and environments that instill habits supporting lifelong health and well-being.
    Join the US Healthier School Challenge or Team Nutrition.
  • Consider joining us for an ACEs training! Learn about Adverse Childhood Experiences and how educators can better understand the experiences that young children bring with them to the classroom.
  • Want to start a garden for young children to enjoy while in your care? We support Farm to ECE! See our flyer for more information.
  • Children look to their adult role models to learn about the world around them; model eating nutritious foods, staying active, and drinking water!

Family Resources

  • What are the different food groups and how much should my child be eating? Use the USDA MyPlate resources to help!
  • Encourage children to get involved in planning healthy meals and making choices at the grocery store; kids can even help in the kitchen!
  • Swap screen time for physical activity, indoors or out!
  • Regie’s Coloring Pages
  • Children look to their family members to learn about the world around them; model eating nutritious foods, staying active, and drinking water!
  • Local resources for Macomb County families: www.greatstartmacomb.org
  • Local resources for Wayne County families: www.greatstart.org