Germs and handwashing worksheets for hygiene lessons: what germs are, where they hide, covering coughs and clean hands, for Reception to Year 3 and Grades K-2.

Two printable files: a short worksheet book to teach healthy habits, and a large puzzle and colouring book for practice and early finishers.

What is included

Germs worksheet book (18 pages)

• What Are Germs?, Where Are Germs?, Cover Your Cough!, Colourful Germs
• Trace the Germ Words (germ, soap, wash, sick, clean)
• Count the Germs (2 versions)
• Healthy or Germy? and Healthy Habits Sort (cut and paste)
• Germs Maze and Germs Hide Here!
• Drawing and writing pages: My Super Germ Fighter, The Germs Parade, My Magic Handwashing Machine, The Germ Detective
• My Clean Hands Promise

Germs puzzle and colouring book (77 pages)

• 10 mazes and 10 picture crosswords
• 9 find-the-shadow pages and 9 spot-the-difference pages
• 10 word searches with picture word banks (microbe, sanitize, laboratory, immunity…)
• 28 colouring pages: handwashing, sneezing, friendly germ characters, microscope

Ways to use

• Health and hygiene lessons, cold and flu season
• Science lessons on micro-organisms
• Early finishers and quiet time
• Literacy and maths centres (tracing, counting)

PDF. Worksheet book in US Letter; puzzle book in large portrait pages (choose “Fit to page” to print on A4 or Letter). English.