Healthy Eating Worksheet: Fruit Salad and Vegetable Soup!
This matching worksheet helps children ages 3-5 build food vocabulary by identifying pictures of fruits and vegetables and sorting them into the correct category — fruit salad ingredients or vegetable soup ingredients. Learning to classify foods by type, not just by whether they're healthy, supports early categorization skills that apply across many other subjects, from animals to shapes. The cooking-themed framing also connects the sorting task to a familiar, everyday context children may have experienced at home.
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About this worksheet
- Topic:
- Healthy Eating
- Skill:
- Healthy Eating (Health & Hygiene): Learn about food groups and balanced diet.
- Pack:
- Page 16 of 28 in Month 1: Learning & Development | Ages 5-6.
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
- 1Have children draw their own favorite fruits and vegetables to add to the categories.
- 2Create a real fruit salad together, washing and cutting soft fruits with supervision.
- 3Make a simple vegetable soup together, letting your child help wash and add ingredients.
- 4Sort real fruits and vegetables from the kitchen into two piles at snack time.
- 5Visit a farmer's market or grocery store and find examples of each food category.
Written by
Hemsweta Jain · Teacher Cheena
MBA and Early Childhood Educator, teaching since 2014 · Founder of RaisoActive, Mumbai
Every RaisoActive worksheet is designed and checked by the founder before publishing.
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