Healthy Eating Worksheet: Fruit Salad and Vegetable Soup!

How to use this worksheet

Look at each food picture together and name what it is, discussing whether it's a fruit or a vegetable. Decide together whether that food would go into a fruit salad or a vegetable soup. Draw a line or write the matching answer connecting each food to the correct dish. Review the completed matches together, talking about which foods surprised your child.

Materials needed

• Pencil
• Crayons

Extension activities

• •Have children draw their own favorite fruits and vegetables to add to the categories.
• •Create a real fruit salad together, washing and cutting soft fruits with supervision.
• •Make a simple vegetable soup together, letting your child help wash and add ingredients.
• •Sort real fruits and vegetables from the kitchen into two piles at snack time.
• •Visit a farmer's market or grocery store and find examples of each food category.

Tips for parents and teachers

Encourage children to name the fruits and vegetables they see, since building this specific vocabulary is as important as the sorting itself. Discuss the importance of eating healthy foods, connecting the worksheet activity to your family's actual meals when possible. If a food seems tricky to categorize, like a tomato, use it as a fun teaching moment about how some foods don't fit neatly into one box.