Printable Vegetable Vocabulary Cards

My children are having such a good time with our fruits and vegetables unit study this week!  I hope you’re enjoying these posts and I especially hope they help you with some ideas for your own fruits and vegetables unit study. I am also adding a few of these Vegetable Vocabulary Cards during our study. My girls love them!

These types of vocabulary cards are also called 3-part cards in some homeschool and teaching circles.

Use them in the way that best fits your learning environment. Make sure you do not miss the multitude of creative ways you can use these listed in the post below!

Browse through a variety of Fruits and Vegetables Learning Ideas: unit study resources, seed booklets, Fruit Bingo, and more!

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Free Printable Vegetable Vocabulary Cards

I often use high-quality clip art for my worksheets and printable activities, however, I wanted to use real pictures for this set of vegetable vocabulary cards.

This set includes 24 vegetable cards including:

• corn
• asparagus
• broccoli
• bell peppers
• Brussels sprouts
• cauliflower
• celery
• carrots
• onion
• peas
• potatoes
• tomatoes
• sweet potatoes
• green cabbage and red cabbage
• cucumbers
• eggplant
• green beans
• pumpkin
• yellow squash
• okra
• zucchini
• garlic
• mushrooms

Creative Ideas for Using Vegetable Vocabulary Cards

You can use this set of Vegetable Vocabulary Cards as you would any set of 3-part cards in the Montessori style.

Even though they seem simple, these vocabulary cards can be used with children into upper elementary school and possibly even middle school if you want to continue work with spelling and vocabulary.

Browse through the creative ideas below and choose the suggestions that are the best fit for your children.

• Use as a traditional matching, Memory-style game
• If your child can read, have him match the word to the vegetable
• Sort the cards by beginning sound or beginning letter
• Sort the cards by color
• Sort the cards by preference – which ones your kiddos like and which ones they don’t!
• Sort the cards into two groups: those vegetables they have tried and those they have not
• If you have these vegetables at home, have your child match the card to the actual vegetable
• Sort by category: tubers, roots, leaves, flower buds, stems, fruits, seeds
• Use as spelling words for the week
• Draw a vegetable and use in a sentence
• Match the vegetables to the pages of the vegetable book you’re reading
• Pair these cards with the Vegetable Coloring Pages. How fun is that?

One of the spine books for our fruits and vegetables unit study is The Vegetables We Eat by Gail Gibbons.

As I explained in the post with the fruit 3-part cards, my kiddos also use the vegetable cards as a hide and seek game.

They draw a card from the vegetable card stack and find it in the book.  Then we read all about the vegetable and how it grows.

My children have loved this very simple activity!

And just a side note for those of us that love Cliff Clavin facts:  The correct spelling is Brussels sprouts, with a capital B.

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Lauren Hill

Lauren Hill is a Christian mom to 5, ages 19 to 7. She homeschools her children in the classical education tradition and is currently in her 15th year of homeschool. She creates engaging worksheets and hands-on printable activities for Preschool and Elementary age children to supplement their daily studies.

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