Food Weights
This activity involves reading weight information on food packets and tins.
Help your child to search the kitchen cupboards for food packets, boxes or tins.
See if they can find different weights of food marked in grams or kilograms.
Can your child find six different food packets (or tins) weighing
less than 500g?
Make a list, noting the name of the food and the actual weight.
When you have found six write the foods out again, putting them in order of weight
Can they find six different food packets weighing
more than 500g?
Again, make a list with the name of the food and the actual weight.
When you have found six, write the foods out again, putting them in order of weight
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