Food Unit Worksheets for Kindergarten ELL

 This food unit worksheet set is just one part of a complete, structured unit that helps your students move from vocabulary recognition to real communication. LINK: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Food-Unit-for-Kindergarten-Holistic-English-Series-15-6741090

These printable Worksheets are more than just paper tasks—they provide opportunities for hands-on learning through coloring, cutting, pasting, and speaking, allowing students to learn at their own pace while staying motivated.

This resource is perfect for preschool and kindergarten ESL classes where students are beginning to connect words, images, and real-life communication.

Worksheets can be fun and students can engage at their own pace. Students like a little coloring, cutting, pasting and making a craft all along.Use these to build food vocabulary with visual support.

Food unit Vocabulary & Tracing Worksheets

Writing simple words is the best start. Students will Trace and write food words, then cut the cards and use them as personal flashcards.

Make the like and don’t like puppets 

Use the puppets with all the resources as the students easily express their likes and dislikes.

Or, the students can draw what they want to eat. Take a look.

Emotions and Food Cut and Paste Worksheet

 After coloring the drawings ,students cut and paste the items as they sort them into happy, sad or angry. I assembled the three pages into a book.

Students listen and point:

Teacher: Point to the sad lemonade!

Students can named each food item along with the emotion.

Students: a happy cereal!

Just watch on how I assembled the worksheets and how I used them for listening and speaking.

Plate and food worksheet

Three ways to use it. One is to cut and paste the food from the template. The other is to have students to cut food from magazines. Check with your students the eating utensil on the worksheet: fork, knife.
Have the students describe their worksheet. There is a hamburger. There are some french fries.
Ask more questions: What do you have for lunch?
Student: I have a hot dog and a salad.
Ask more questions: Is there any pasta on your plate?
Student: No, there isn't. There is some salad.

Students listen, draw and color.

Teacher: Draw two hamburgers. Draw three hot dogs. Draw lemonade.

Use the worksheet for speaking!

Six plates to color as written on each one and place food on the plates as the students listen. 

Teacher: Put the egg on the yellow plate.

What color is the chicken?

Students: brown!

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Trace and color food unit worksheets

Motivate your students to stay on the lines as they trace each picture and/or word. Puppets can be made as an extra activity for these worksheets. Students can say sentences using the verb eat. I eat pizza!

Use the worksheet to express likes. Then, say what they don't like about the food and drinks.

Utensils worksheets

 Dictate the color of each utensil. Have the students cut each one and organize them on a table. You can have them make a placemat with construction paper. Tell the students to set the table as they listen to your instructions.

Teacher: Put the plate on the placemat! Put the fork next to the plate!

Continue with spoon, knife, napkin and glass

Pull out the menu worksheet!

Play around with the cutouts before they create their menus. Have the students sort the drinks and food items.

Help them associate being hungry with food and thirsty with drinks.

There is a shopping list and a shopping cart available and some market items. Students cut and paste everything they would want to buy into the cart or the list. They can also draw the items or cut food from magazines or supermarket ads.

Students will make sentences. I want bread and cereal.

 the lunch box worksheet

 Cut and paste the items onto the lunchbox. Students will say what's in their lunchboxes.

Teacher: Point to the sandwich!

Take a look!

the meals worksheets

Besides of food going into the lunch box it goes on the table. There are three table worksheets, one for each meal. Students can cut and paste the food that belongs to each meal or simply draw what they usually eat for that meal.

Review the numbers 1 to 10 

There are two sets of worksheets, one with cereal and another with pepperoni. It is a cut and paste worksheet. You can also make a matching game if you use them as cards.

More number practice as independent work. It's a color by number activity.

review the family members worksheets

 You can dictate what to draw or each person.

Teacher: Mommy is drinking lemonade! Draw the lemonade.

Another way could be that students draw what they want and then say the sentence.

Student: Daddy is eating a hamburger.

You can use this worksheet for the fruit and vegetable unit.

Shapes to review with the pizzas

Teacher: How many pizzas do you see?

Students: four!

Find the triangle! Point to the triangle! Color the triangle blue.

After all the pizza shapes are colored have the students cut and glue the word.

review of the face theme

The food has facial features to color as you say.

Teacher: Look at the sandwich! Color the eyes purple. Color the mouth red! What's missing?

Students: hair! ears! nose!

Teacher: OK! Just draw and color them on the sandwich.

The cookie set of flashcards have the worksheet to use as well.Review parts of the face and school supplies. There's also the lemonade and ice cream set.

   More esl food worksheets 

There is a worksheet for the students to draw their favorite food. Take a look at the complete the pizza which students can decorate using different materials to have their personal version.

Food unit small cards for kindergarten ESL vocabulary activity is here at this Blog post: 

https://eflpreschoolteachers.blogspot.com/2021/04/food-unit-small-cards-activities-for.html

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