Educating children to make healthy food choices is critical for health and development. It is so important that children eat a well-balanced diet to prepare their brains and bodies for learning. It can be challenging to focus on learning without proper nutrition and exercise. If students are hungry during the school day, they may also be distracted. Incorporating worksheets about food can introduce children to food vocabulary words and new food so check out our top 18 picks below!
1. Matching Colors and Foods
Elementary students will need to match the colors to the correct pictures of foods. By completing this activity, students will learn how colorful and healthy foods are.
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2. Chef Sous: Color My Plate
Students will draw and color their favorite fruits and vegetables. By the end of the activity, the plates will be filled with colorful, healthy food items. Students can draw the fruit and/or fill in the names of the fruit on the plate.
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3. Healthy Eating Coloring Sheet
For this activity, children will focus on healthy habits for eating. They can color in healthy foods with all the beautiful colors of the rainbow. By eating a rainbow of colors, children can identify nutritious foods and compare them to other common food that may not be as healthy.
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4. Fun Fruit Crossword Puzzle
Can you name all of the fruit shown on the crossword puzzle? I sure hope so! Students will complete this activity by writing the name of each fruit on the matching number puzzle. Students will need to identify all of the fruits to complete the puzzle.
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5. Identifying Healthy Foods
This worksheet will require students to circle the healthy foods. I would use this worksheet to introduce a food discussion activity about healthy and unhealthy food choices. Students may be encouraged to ask discussion questions about food and learn new healthy cooking habits.
6. Exploring Food Groups
This matching activity would be an excellent addition to lessons about food groups. Students will draw a line to match the food picture with the correct food group. By selecting the correct food picture, students will identify foods belonging to each food group. Students will also learn common food vocabulary.
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7. Healthy Eating Meal Activity
You may be interested in this worksheet if you are seeking food pyramid activities. Students will focus on healthy eating by deciding which foods to put on their plates. Discuss the importance of including an entree with vegetable side dishes.
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8. Vegetable Shadows
Challenge your kids with food shadow matching! Students will identify each vegetable and match the item to its correct shadow. I would recommend explaining how each of the vegetables is grown to follow up on this activity.
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9. A/An, Some/Any Worksheet
This food-themed worksheet helps students recognize when to use; A/An, and Some/Any. To complete, students will fill in the blank with the correct word. Then, students will choose between “There is” and “There are”. These simple exercises all relate to the topic of food.
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10. Like and Don’t Like Activity
Students will use the emojis to decide whether to include “I like” or “I don’t like” each food item. This activity provides simple vocabulary practice pertaining to foods. This activity could lead to an interesting class discussion on student food preferences.
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11. Healthy Food vs. Junk Food
Do you think your children can distinguish between healthy and junk food? Put their knowledge to the test! Students will complete various tasks to distinguish between healthy and junk foods, such as color in the healthy foods and placing an “X” on the junk foods.
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12. Food Prompts for Writing
Students can use the food prompts to practice writing. Using this writing prompt worksheet, students can write about their favorite foods, recipes, restaurants, and more.
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13. Food Spelling Activity
This is a great activity to practice spelling food vocabulary. Students will fill in the missing letters for the pictures shown to spell each word. All of the words are the names of healthy foods.
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14. Cooking Verbs Worksheet
Students will write the missing letters in the boxes to complete the cooking verbs vocabulary. The objective of this activity is for students to learn how to read recipes with cooking verbs. It is also great spelling practice!
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15. Fruit Word Search
This is one of my favorite worksheets on fruits. Students will need to use the word bank to find all of the words in the word search. The pictures correspond with the names of the fruit items that the students will be tasked to find.
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16. Graphing Food Worksheet
This is a food-themed math worksheet for students to practice graphing skills. Students will color and count the pictures and complete the graph. This is an engaging way for students to practice counting and graphing using foods.
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17. Sugars Worksheet
This activity connects well with a health lesson about sugar. Students will compare items that have more and less sugar. Students may be surprised to learn how much sugar can be found in everyday food items.
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18. Fruits and Vegetable Worksheet
Do you teach students about nutrients and fiber? If so, you may be interested in this activity. Students will complete this by drawing a line from the benefit of each food to the food item. For example, “potassium” is found in bananas and sweet potatoes, so they would be a match.
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