Get Out and Play! Day

Due to the uncertainty around implemention of the federal health care reform package, and continued financial degradation of payments to Medicaid and Medicare, the Executive Team at NPN has decided to postpone the 2010 event until next year. 

We'll see you in 2011!

A free field day for kids K-8 with events like:

Water Relay
Throw Zone
Obstacle Course
Inflatable Course
Tug-O-War
Burlap 3-legged races
Nutrition Activity
Stump the Doctor

A third of our children in Washington State are overweight - and more than ten percent of them are obese, according to reports.  In effort to combat this growing health crisis, the NPN Foundation is hosts the annual "Get Out and Play!" Day, a landmark event in the South Puget Sound. 

The purpose of the event is simple: get kids playing outside in order to teach them the joys and give them the tools to lead a healthy, active lifestyle.  Childhood obesity is one of the most important health issues facing families in the nation: inactive lifestyles and poor nutrition choices start kids off on a dangerous path, which if unaddressed, often leads to cancer, cardiovascular disease, chronic lower respiratory disease, and diabetes in adults. All of these rates are growing at alarming speed.

See past results of the Get Out and Play! Day event by clicking here.