19 Free printable healthy food coloring pages

Healthy food coloring pages

All our bodies need a nutritious diet. It is important to teach children what is good for them to eat so that they will grow both physically and mentally. These printable healthy food coloring pages can help to do just that in a fun way.

Fresh food also comes in all sorts of wonderful colors. It is a great subject where budding artists can break out pencils, crayons, or paint and use the entire spectrum. This can be a fun lesson for everyone involved.

The healthy coloring sheets on this page have all kinds of fruits and vegetables with designs that children will enjoy. There are pictures of smiling fresh produce, kids with nourishing food, juice, and more. There are also some detailed pages for teenagers and students who like a bit of a challenge.

For young ESL learners, these coloring pages can also help with basic food vocabulary. Ask learners what it is they are coloring to reinforce the words. You can even get your class to label some of the drawings.

Once students have completed their healthy coloring pages ask them questions about the foods. Questions about favorites, dislikes, shapes, sizes, and colors are simple conversations most kids can practice. You can even make this a writing activity and use the back of these pages.

Caring about what we eat and our general well-being is something all children should know about, and perhaps some of us older kids too! These healthy food coloring pages can be used at any time of the year.

There are also some specific dates on the calendar on which the conditions of our bodies and what we eat are brought to public attention. You might want to break out these coloring activities at these times of year –

National Nutrition Month – March (USA)

Fresh Veggies Day – June the 16th.

International Fruit Day – July the 1st

World Food Day – October the 16th.

In any case, there are countless related topics that these free printables can be used to complement the lesson or added as a cooler at the end. It is all healthy!