Food Classification Printable

by Karen on January 4, 2012

When I was plundering through the Target Dollar Spot recently, I came across these little erasers shaped like food, and decided to use them for a food classification activity. They have sets of fruit, vegetables, and desserts. I’m going to have children use the classification mat I made, and sort them according to which foods are healthy foods and which are unhealthy foods. This activity will be in our science center.

Run right down to Target and get you some before they’re sold :) . Just in case you don’t, I included some printable food pictures you can cut apart for sorting on the mats. I also made a mat for classifying Fruits and Vegetables.

To download the mats, just click the link below:

Healthy/Unhealthy Food Classification Mats

Note: If you want to print the mats, but not the food pictures, just hit CTRL-P and in the next box you see, select the page numbers you want to print (on Windows).

{ 18 comments… read them below or add one }

Eilis@GrowinginPreK January 4, 2012 at 11:33 pm

I LOVE it! Back to Target…. Thanks!

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Karen January 5, 2012 at 7:30 pm

thanks for commenting, Eilis!

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Amy January 5, 2012 at 2:47 pm

Bought them today because of your post! :-) My little one asked what the white vegetable is … I have no idea! Do you know what it is?

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Karen January 5, 2012 at 7:30 pm

Actually, I couldn’t figure out what that was, either.

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Sarah January 8, 2012 at 3:03 pm

I think it is suppose to be squash or endame perhaps? Weird one though that not ANY kids will know….

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Karen January 8, 2012 at 5:06 pm

thanks, Sarah.

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Karen January 5, 2012 at 7:32 pm

Update: My group decided to pull the erasers apart (which is easy to do), so I solved it by hot gluing the separated pieces together.

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Eilis@GrowinginPreK January 7, 2012 at 11:06 pm

Same here!

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Diane January 5, 2012 at 8:01 pm

I can’t get there until tomorrow! I hope I can find them; this looks terrific.

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Janet January 11, 2012 at 9:09 pm

Hi Karen– I got a lot of these last fall at the Dollar Tree. Also I saw some in the “clearance area” at Office Max last fall. I am so glad to have the classification mats! But I agree, you WILL HAVE to glue them. Mine fell apart as I opened the packages.

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Karen January 17, 2012 at 6:18 pm

thanks, Janet.

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Phyllis January 12, 2012 at 10:01 am

I laminated both mats and bought all the erasers at Target. The children played with them yesterday and had fun with them too.

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Karen January 17, 2012 at 6:18 pm

that’s great, Phyllis!

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Gloria January 15, 2012 at 10:35 pm

I awarded you the Liebster Award! Thank you for your dedication to the field of early childhood education!

Check out my blog for details…

Gloria
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Karen January 17, 2012 at 6:17 pm

Hi Gloria! Thank you so much! That’s very sweet of you!

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Veronica January 17, 2012 at 5:00 pm

Those are great. I need to get me some. I’m new here. I love your hands of activities.

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Karen January 17, 2012 at 6:16 pm

thanks so much, Veronica!

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Stacy@Share&Remember February 18, 2012 at 11:47 am

This is so awesome! I’m afraid I missed these erasers at our store. : ( What a bummer!

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