Breakfast Foods for Kids: Pancakes, Eggs, Bacon and Cereal

Eight breakfast favorites: pancakes, eggs, bacon and sausage, hash browns, cereal, a bowl of oatmeal and toast with jam. Some are quick weekday breakfasts and others belong to a slow weekend brunch.

Pancake, oatmeal and sausage, the longest words, have seven letters each. Cereal and oatmeal read backwards, and jam and pancake run upward.

Breakfast Foods Vocabulary: 8 Words to Find

Words run across, up and down; 4 of the 8 read backwards. The longest words are Oatmeal, Pancake and Sausage, with 7 letters each.

Bacon: Salted, often smoked, strips of pork, fried crisp for breakfast.
Cereal: Breakfast grains, like corn flakes or oat rings, eaten with milk.
Eggs: Fried, scrambled, boiled or poached, the center of many breakfasts.
Hash: As in hash browns, shredded potatoes fried until golden.
Jam: Fruit cooked with sugar, spread on toast.
Oatmeal: A warm porridge of oats cooked in water or milk.
Pancake: A flat, round cake cooked in a pan, served with syrup or fruit.
Sausage: Seasoned ground meat in a casing, fried for breakfast or sliced on pizza.

How to Solve the Breakfast Foods Word Search

"Jam" has the only J and runs upward, like "pancake", the only word with a K or a P. "Eggs" is the only word that reads normally across. "Bacon" has the only B and "hash" the only H.

Breakfast Activities for Kids

Ask children what they had for breakfast and circle it in the list.
Make pancakes together and name each ingredient.
Sort the foods into sweet and savory.