Explore healthy eating and balanced diets with this ready-to-use KS1 teaching pack, featuring a 22-slide PowerPoint and 16-page printable A4 activity pack.

Designed for Years 1–2 (ages 5–7), this engaging resource helps children understand food groups, the importance of variety, everyday drinks and healthy habits through age-appropriate classroom activities.

What’s Included?

• 22-slide PowerPoint (4:3) with colourful illustrations, discussion prompts and selected teacher speaker notes
• 12 pupil activity pages covering sorting, matching, drawing and reflection
• Food groups and vocabulary activities
• Everyday or Less Often? food sorting and discussion
• Build a Balanced Meal and compare two lunches
• Drink Detectives exploring everyday drink choices
• Fruit and vegetable identification activities
• Healthy habits, True or False questions and daily meal planning
• Teacher guidance and complete answer guidance

Perfect For

KS1 science, PSHE, healthy eating lessons, classroom discussions, food education and cross-curricular activities.

Activities encourage positive, balanced attitudes towards food without labelling children or families as good or bad. Tasting is not required, and individual dietary needs should be respected.

Files: Editable 22-slide PowerPoint (.pptx) and printable 16-page A4 portrait PDF (.pdf).

KS1 | Years 1–2 | Ages 5–7