Print and fold this pick-a-veggie cootie catcher to make learning about colorful vegetable fun for kids of all ages.
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This post was originally published in June 2016. It was updated in 2025 to include a black-and-white version for coloring.
Choose what to grow in your garden, feed a picky child, and make the whole thing fun with this cute and clever pick-a-veggie printable fortune game. Encourage your kids to eat a rainbow and get the whole family trying something new.
When I started making this paper fortune game, I was thinking about my backyard garden. We just planted herbs this year, but I spent a lot of time thinking about which vegetables I wanted to plant. Using a paper fortune to pick vegetables for the garden might be fun.
If your kids are like mine, they have a narrow list of vegetables they’re willing to eat. (If I’m being honest, I have a few that I don’t want to eat either.)
Helping me grow them in the garden helps, but I definitely don’t have the time or space to grow everything we eat. When they were younger, helping me choose vegetables at the grocery store and then cook them at home also encouraged them to try more.
For little kids, the trick to getting them to do most things is making it a game.
Laundry becomes fun when you can throw it across the room into the basket. Picking up your toys becomes fun when you get to sort them into special containers. Eating vegetables is fun when they’re the prize at the end of the game.
Fair warning: This doesn’t always work. But if you give your child this printable pick-a-veggie fortune, I’ll bet that they will be willing to at least try the vegetables that they picked themselves.
Veggie fortune teller cootie catcher
Vegetables come in a lot of colors, but some are more common than others. Here’s what I included in this printable:
- red: tomato, bell pepper
- orange: carrot, pumpkin
- yellow: corn, bell pepper
- green: cucumber, lettuce
- blue: olive (a stretch, but there are very few naturally blue foods)
- purple: turnip, onion, eggplant
- white: parsnip, garlic
- brown: mushroom, potato
In case you need a refresher on how to fold a paper fortune, I made a step-by-step tutorial for the video in this post.
Each section is labeled with colors and under each pair are four vegetables that match. I tested mine on card stock, but I think regular printer paper is easier to fold and get the creases neat.
Get the printable
Download includes a full-color version and a black-and-white version. Print on 8.5×11-inch paper. All printables are for personal use only.
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