Our Healthy Year: Reception classroom activity sheets

These fun activity sheets accompany the activities found in the Our Healthy Year: Reception toolkit (pages 8-14).

These activities have been written and tested by teachers.

Try this

Get kids thinking about healthy foods by planning a healthy tea party. Children can write tea party invitations for guests and even bring a favourite toy to the party!

In the classroom

These curriculum-linked activity sheets accompany the activities from  Our Healthy Year: Reception toolkit and include a range of creative tasks, worksheets and games. They are a great way to support communication and language learning.

This resource includes:

• Café menu template – accompanies the Eating out activity, in which children create their own healthy menu
• Shopping list template – accompanies the Shopping lists activity, in which children create a healthy shopping list
• Phonics activity cards – accompanies the Alphabet and phonics activity, which uses healthy foods to support children’s phonics learning
• Fruit and veg bingo cards – accompanies the All the fruit and veg in the world activity, in which children need to identify a wide range of fruits and vegetables
• Blank Eatwell Guide – accompanies the A healthy plate activity, in which children create a version of the Eatwell Guide including the sorts of healthy things they like to eat

Learning objectives

After using these activities, pupils should: 

• understand the importance of eating well
• understand the importance of being active
• be able to explain how to keep themselves healthy