Healthy or Not? A Week of Food English

Hold up a doughnut and an apple, and ask a small child which one is healthy — they know. They always know. That little spark of “I know this!” is the perfect doorway into a whole week of food English.

Over five short days, children sort foods into healthy and sometimes food, meet one food group per day, and build their own food pyramid poster. My favourite moment is the hand-tracing activity: each finger gets coloured for a food group, and suddenly “how often we eat what” makes sense to a four-year-old.

Try this today, free

At your next snack, hold up the food and ask, in English, with a serious game-show face: “Banana… healthy?” Cheer the answer. That two-second quiz, three times a day, is a real English habit — and it’s free.

What the full pack includes

• 24 illustrated sorting cards and the healthy/sometimes game
• The hand-tracing food-groups activity, step by step
• A build-your-own food pyramid poster (cut, sort, glue)
• A five-day parent planner in simple English
• The supermarket treasure hunt card for real-world revision