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Healthy Eating

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Junior Infants - Senior Infants

Explore these healthy eating resources, a mix of powerpoints for the whiteboard and printable worksheets. Explore fruit and vegetables, the food groups, why we eat food and how it helps us. Combining maths and language for cross curricular activities when possible.

Fruit and Vegetable Flashcards - Printable

(SPHE) Print and laminate these flashcards and use them to explore fruit and vegetables with your pupils.

Odd One Out - Printable - Worksheet

(SPHE/Mathematics) Pupils will classify fruit and vegetables and use skill to pick the odd one out. Differentiated worksheets.

Fruit and Vegetable Classification - Powerpoint - Interactive

(SPHE/Mathematics) Pupils will classify fruit and vegetables in this whiteboard activity game.

Food Letters - Printable - Worksheet

(SPHE/Language) Pupils will become familiar with a core set of fruit and vegetables while practicing letters, colour, and drawing.

Food Preference - Printable - Worksheet

(SPHE) Pupils will classify a set of fruit and vegetables as either food they like, food they don't like or food they would like to try.

Fruit Salad Sequence - Powerpoint - Interactive

(SPHE/Mathematics) Put these steps in the correct sequence while learning about food and hand hygiene.

Fruit Salad Sequence - Printable - Worksheet

(SPHE/Mathematics) Sort this fruit salad sequence into the correct order.

Food Groups Presentation - Powerpoint

(SPHE) Use this powerpoint to introduce pupils to the food groups and explore why we eat.

Every Day Food - Powerpoint - Interactive

(SPHE/Mathematics) In this lesson pupils will identify & distinguish foods that you can eat every day and foods that you can eat occasionally if you wish to.

Every Day Food - Printable - Worksheet

(SPHE/Mathematics) In this lesson pupils will identify & distinguish foods that you can eat every day and foods that you can eat occasionally if you wish to.

Food Source - Powerpoint - Interactive

(SPHE/Mathematics) Pupils will identify foods by their source, recognise and classify the food as either food that comes from a plant or food that comes from an animal. 

Food Source - Printable - Worksheet

(SPHE/Mathematics) Pupils will identify foods by their source, recognise and classify the food as either food that comes from a plant or food that comes from an animal. 

1st Class - 2nd Class

Fruit & Vegetable Flashcards - Printable

(SPHE) Print and laminate these flashcards and use them to explore fruit and vegetables with your pupils.

Fruit & Vegetable Classification - Powerpoint - Interactive

(SPHE/Mathematics) Pupils will classify fruit and vegetables in this whiteboard activity game.

Food Groups Presentation - Powerpoint

(SPHE) Use this powerpoint to introduce pupils to the food groups and explore why we eat.

Every Day Food - Powerpoint - Interactive

(SPHE/Mathematics) In this lesson pupils will identify & distinguish foods that you can eat every day and foods that you can eat occasionally if you wish to.

Every Day Food - Printable - Worksheet

(SPHE/Mathematics) In this lesson pupils will identify and distinguish foods that you can eat every day and foods that you can eat occasionally if you wish to.

Food Source - Powerpoint - Interactive

(SPHE/Mathematics) Pupils will identify foods by their source, recognise and classify the food as either food that comes from a plant or food that comes from an animal.

Food Source - Printable - Worksheet

(SPHE/Mathematics) Pupils will identify foods by their source, recognise and classify foods as either food that comes from a plant or food that comes from an animal.

Recipes to try at home

Easy Cheesy Quesadilla

Dips and Veggies around the World

Start the day an egg-celent way

Recipes - Use Your Leftovers

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