Handwashing

• Global Handwashing Day (The Global Public-Private Partnership for Handwashing with Soap)
• About Handwashing (CDC)
• Hand-washing:  Do's and Don'ts (Mayo Clinic)

Handwashing Video

• Wash Your Hands (:30) (CDC)

Posters and Handouts

• Clean Hands Poster (CDC) (PDF 2.5 MB)
• Double Handwashing Posters (Texas A&M University Food Safety)
  • Double Handwashing Poster - PDF in English 489 KB)
  • Double Handwashing Poster - PDF in Spanish 488 KB
• Handwashing:  Germ Fighting 101 (Texas A&M University, PDF 562 KB)

For Parents/Teachers

• Glo Germ website
• Handwashing as a Family Activity (CDC)
• Life is Better with Clean Hands Campaign (CDC)
• Soapy Solutions experiment for Grades 4-8 (fightbac.org) (PDF 143 KB) A 20-minute experiment for kids on effective handwashing. 
• Science and Our Food Supply (FDA) Free supplementary curriculum for middle level and high school classrooms. The teacher guides are challenging hands-on, minds-on activities that link food safety, nutrition, and biotechnology to students' everyday lives. They are crafted in a teacher-friendly modular format that easily fit into science, health, and other classes.

References discussing the benefits of handwashing

• Information on Staphylococcal Infections for Day Care Administrators and Care Givers (Texas A&M University, PDF 35 KB)
• Hand Hygiene:  Why, How and When? (World Health Organization, PDF 466 KB)
• Reducing Contagious Illness in the Child Care Setting (Texas A&M University, PDF 355 KB)