Food Unit crafts, rewards and Holidays for Kindergarten ELL

 This is a hands-on ESL food activity for preschool and kindergarten students! Get the complete resource here: 

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These crafts, rewards, and classroom ideas are perfect for Kindergarten and Preschool English Language Learners (ELLs).

Young learners need hands-on, visual, and interactive activities to stay motivated. Crafts and rewards not only make learning fun, but they also help students connect vocabulary to real-life experiences, improving retention and participation.

This post shares simple, effective ideas to help your students practice food vocabulary while creating, playing, and celebrating their progress.

  

 3 Food Unit crafts for your students to participate in creative activities.

Build your ice cream craft 

It's a Food Cut & Paste Activity. Students can color each scoop of ice cream and build it. Have them add real sprinkles to the ice cream, cocoa can be added as chocolate. Any other idea?

Lemonade craft

 I saw this idea on the mailbox.com newsletter, I just gave it a twist. Print the glass, the lemons, the soda or the milk label. Students can make up their mind to which drink they want to make.

Students can color the glass yellow using a half lemon with watercolor paint. Have them color the lemons drawings and cut them. Glue onto the glass. Trace the cup onto any recycled construction paper. Glue the borders and insert a real straw.

Ask questions:

Teacher: What are you drinking?

Students: a lemonade!

Take a look!

Food Unit Labeling

 I made a bunch of labels. Students can color each food word and cut all the labels. This is a start to reading in the future. Students can label the food in the pantry of their house, label recycled food containers in the classroom. Real food can be labeled al home. So many things to do to identify the food vocabulary.

Another idea with the labels is to glue real food onto the labels on a plate.

Food Unit Rewards for Kindergarten ESL Students

Celebrate your students' success at the end of your Food Unit with these fun and easy-to-make reward medals! Young learners love being recognized for their hard work, participation, and positive attitude, and these printable rewards are a wonderful way to end your ESL/EFL unit on a high note.

The resource includes colorful "Super!" and "Great Work!" medal templates, along with a special "I Finished the Food Unit" medal. Simply print the medals on cardstock, cut them out, glue the front and back together, punch a hole at the top, and add a ribbon to create a medal your students will proudly wear.

These printable Food Unit rewards are perfect for recognizing students who completed the Food Unit successfully or participated actively during English lessons.

Hand each medal to your students during a small classroom celebration and tell them why they earned it.

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I like to add the clip art drawings from theme to enhance the cardigan. Just print the graphics. Open a small hole in the middle of each image and pass through the buttons.

Holidays or Festivals to bring in Cultural Awareness to your pupils.

St. Patrick's Day and the food unit come together with COOKIES!!

First, here is the set of flashcards with several cookies.

Make a mind map with things that the cookies have.

Place the cookie flashcards with things in their hands and have the students match with the items flashcards.

Teacher: This cookie has a clover! 

Student: Here is the clover.

Teacher: This cookie has mittens! 

Student: Here are the mittens.

Get to have your students add several things using the cutouts provided to the flashcard. Here is an example. A cookie can have a hat.

Teacher: Place the clover on the cookie's hand.

A set of worksheets to go with the flashcards.

 Students will color the worksheets with the colors related to the holiday. use the worksheet to review the parts of the face.

Teacher: Show me the eyes! (continue with more)

What is missing?

Students: ears!! Then draw the ears on the cookie. (do the same with the hair)

There is a set of cutouts to add to the worksheets, just as we did with the flashcards. Students can make a poster with their worksheets.

The Holidays won't finish here. There cutouts for Easter. Glue the Easter basket cutout onto a box and have the stduents puit the eggs in the basket as they say the colors.

Students: a white egg.

It can be a craft as students color, cut and decor their eggs and make the Easter Baskets.

Easter Worksheets.

Set 1. Color by number. Students can use markers, watercolors or even decorate with sequins and more.

After the worksheets are completed, students can color their eggs and make decorations for their classroom, such as a banner.

A worksheet for making an Easter cookie plate.

Set 2. Easter Egg Numbers Matching Worksheets.

Print and go with this easy Easter Domino Game.

Thanksgiving revolves much around food and that’s the focus on this particular material.

First, introduce the new food items that represent the Thanksgiving dinner using the food flashcards.

Then, for extra practice there are the set of cutouts. You can use them to set the table for Thanksgiving and the students can draw their plate with food that they would like to eat.

Make a TURKEY feed me box. You can use it for almost anything. But my example is for the cutouts. Introduce the turkey that needs food.
Teacher: This is Mister Turkey! He is hungry. Let’s feed him.
Display all the food cutouts and do it as a listening activity.
Teacher: Tomas, feed the turkey to the turkey!

A game to wrap up the lesson or to play if you are going to host a Thanksgiving gathering at school.

Bingo is fun and easy to play. Hand in to a student’s template to every 2 students as they can cut and glue only five food items on their plate template or just put them on the table. That will be their Bingo card. Use the colored calling cards as your Teacher’s set.

Happy Thanksgiving!

More things are included in this resource, go to the blog post:   https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2024/09/halloween-food-for-kindergarten-ells.html 

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