Eat Well & Keep It Moving!
"Funmi and Friends provided our library with an enjoyable and educational afternoon of valuable information about the importance of nutrition. There were lots of participatory activities for all ages. Our crowd of 50+ seemed to get a lot out of learning while having fun!"
- Peter Fekety, Library Manager, Fort Worth Public Library
Funmi and Friends is currently featured at the Anniston Museum of Natural History in Alabama.
See Funmi and Friends in the
children's discovery room!
Funmi Shows You How to Make Margherita Pizza.
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Mission: Through the use of skits, puppetry, music, and food creations, Funmi & Friends educates children on the importance of nutrition to encourage children to live healthy lifestyles.
Gardening, Nutrition, Physical Activity,
Healthy Heart, Snack Making!
Funmi & Friends educates children (ages 2-7) on the basic concepts of nutrition. The show works to influence children to consume more healthy foods such as fruits and vegetables, using fun and informative subject matter and demonstrations of how to make quick and easy snacks.
The Characters
Funmi - is always, learning and discovering all sorts of nutritious foods. She introduces the topic of the day as well as other cool bits of information.
Sunny - is a funny character; he is always making people laugh. He likes to rap and beat box. He is Juliebee's brother.
Juliebee - is sweet and innocent. She loves strawberries and asking questions.
Chef - prepares healthy meals for Sunny and Juliebee. He loves to cook but he is always misplacing his ingredients. Once he finds his ingredients he always ends up making a scrumptious meal.
"Thank you for coming and performing at Fort Worth’s Seminary South Branch Library. The kids enjoyed the program and puppets as they learned about healthy living and eating habits. I really appreciated how you interacted with our kids, asked their names and remembered them throughout the performance – this really made for a specialized program for each of the children." - Rachael Spriggs, Fort Worth Public Library
"Our kids really enjoyed Funmi and Friends (especially Sunny & Jubliebee!)! We had a large crowd and not a lot of space, but Funmi was quick to adapt the program to make it workable in the space we had. Everyone had a great time and we heard nothing but positive comments after the show!" - Robin Colvin,
Fort Worth Public Library
Upcoming Events
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"Funmi and Friends is an engaging, educational, and truly fun way for kids to learn about healthy eating and exercise. Our little Whole Food Market guests love listening to Funmi and the gang talk about healthy recipes they can make with mom and dad as well as coming up with fun exercises and activities. We love you Funmi and Friends!"
- Kate Neu, Associate Marketing Dir,
Whole Foods Market
Performing is what we do! If you would like a performance at your school, library, store, daycare center, or community recreation center, send us an email on our contact page. Funmi and Friends' performances are fun and interactive; we pull kids right out of the audience to participate! Towards the end, we show kids how to make a healthy snack!
"Funmi and Friends provided a fun and interactive presentation to our Elementary students that included messages on healthy eating, movement choices, and other healthy choices. Our students were totally engaged and interested in their entire presentation. We hope they are available to present to our students again next year."
-Jeff Hughes
Riojas Elementary Pflugerville Texas
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***Featured on Austin PBS TV (KLRU) on Juneteenth Jamboree!
Sunny's Tells us About Carrots!
Book of the Season!
The Little Cornbread Girl is a fun story for youth of all ages!
A book by Deborah Orr
An easy reader for child and parent to read while sitting around waiting for some good ole cornbread, or even cookies. In the story Ma and Pa decide to make the cornbread into the shape of a cornbread girl, but once the cornbread girl is ready she jumps from the pan saying, Run, run, around the world you can't catch me I'm the cornbread girl.
To learn more about it and get your copy
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Funmi Ogunro is a graduate of Baylor University, B.A. (2009). Funmi came up with the concept of Funmi and Friends, during her senior year at Baylor University. She envisioned providing an educational platform for children to learn about healthy living through media: TV and online videos, and theatrical performances. She believes if we teach children about health at an early age, patterns of healthy living will follow youth well into adulthood. Funmi is a great advocate of learning through fun and interaction which is exactly what Funmi and Friends is all about.
Funmi cites her own early learning from shows like Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers. "I loved waking up and watching Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers, I was learning but it was enjoyable and it wasn't forceful which is the same reason why I believe children enjoy Funmi and Friends."
Funmi's favorite vegetable is spinach, "because you can add fresh spinach to relatively any dish and the taste is so subtle but your getting a whole bunch of nutrients. I eat spinach all the time!"
Funmi enjoys playing basketball and yoga.
Funmi resides in Austin, Texas.
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