Planning a COAM Event?
If you or your organization have an event during National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month, please add it to our calendar. This calendar features COAM-related events all over the U.S. If your event encourages healthy behaviors for children and/or families, add it to our calendar. View examples.
Note: all events added to the calendar will automatically be entered to win the inaugural PLAYAward.
What’s the PLAY Award?
Worldwide Day of Play
On September 25th 2010, Nickelodeon goes dark for the 7th year in a row to encourage kids to get up and go out and play! YOU can join thousands of clubs, schools, organizations and families and plan a Play Day to celebrate.
Worldwide Day of Play Event Ideas
► Walk, run, skip a mile
► Play a game of football, soccer or your favorite sport
► Host a family charity run/walk event
► Hold a jump-rope contest
► Tackle a ropes course
► Compete in a dance-off
► Turn a PE class into a Worldwide Day of Play games day
► Plan a field day
► Play on the jungle gym
► Roller skate at a local rink
► Organize a bike-a-thon
► Take a martial arts lesson
► Climb a rock climbing wall
► Host a bike-a-thon like LeBron James does in his hometown of Akron
► For more ideas and local events in your area reach out to Boys & Girls Clubs of America and the National PTA or log on to beoutthere.org
September Event Registration
"For the first time, the nation will have goals, benchmarks, and measureable outcomes that will help us tackle the childhood obesity epidemic one child, one family, and one community at a time,"
First Lady Michelle Obama