Free Printable Food Coloring Pages to Teach Healthy Eating Habits

Teach Nutrition with Free Printable Food Coloring Pages

Nutrition doesn't come naturally to many people these days. In a fast-paced culture full of fast food, healthy eating habits have fallen to the wayside. Unfortunately, this has occurred with children, too, contributing to obesity and other medical conditions related to being overweight. Although healthy eating habits need to be learned at home, there is something to be said about learning good habits at school, too. You can make a difference in a child's nutritional choices simply by incorporating more nutritionally geared content into your classroom. ColoringBookFun.com has a variety of free printable food coloring pages for your students to color as they learn about the nutritional advantages and disadvantages of different types of food. All sheets are clear, black and white images appropriate for use in the classroom or at home. Simply hit the print button, select the number of sheets you need, and you're all set.

Food for Thought with Free Printable Food Coloring Pages

Vegetables are an essential part of any healthy diet, and we have the perfect vegetable coloring sheets for you to use in the classroom or at home if you homeschool. Vegetables are chock full of healthy nutrients like vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and more. Consider printing out one or all of these images to promote eating vegetables at school. The most popular downloads in the category are the carrots, corn and pumpkin. You'll also find tomatoes in the free printable food coloring pages because people often mistake them for vegetables even though they're technically fruits. If you select the tomato coloring page, you should make this point clear to your students about tomatoes being fruits.

Free Printable Food Coloring Pages Featuring Carrots

If you ask any child what his or her favorite veggie is, you'll usually hear, "Carrots!" What's not to like about carrots, though? They're brightly colored, tasty and crunchy. They're also fat-free, low in calories and packed with nutritional vitamins and minerals. Did you know that carrots aren't just orange? There are also purple carrots and shades between purple and pale yellow. They're all tasty, of course. Instead of having the students color all the carrots orange, talk about the different colored carrots to encourage variety and natural color in the diet. You can also talk about the different ways students and their families can enjoy carrots at home. Some suggestions are: raw carrots served with dip, cooked carrots, steamed carrots, carrots in soup, shredded carrots and everyone's favorite, carrot cake. Just a word of warning, though, carrot cake isn't that healthy! It is delicious, though. Ask your students what their favorite foods with carrots are as they color the pages. On the back of the sheet, have them write their favorite fruits and vegetables as well as how they like to eat them. There are many different ways to discuss healthy foods in the classroom. You'll find these free printable carrot coloring pages and more at ColoringBookFun.com.