Free Printables About Food Chains and Food Webs

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June 24, 2020

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Jeannette Tuionetoa

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The web of life was always meant to be interconnected; teach all about it with these free printables about food chains and food webs. Although life has always been interconnected, God’s creation was not meant to be what it is today.

Free Printables About Food Chains and Food Webs text with image collage of fresh produce grown

Before original sin.

Can you imagine the perfect cycle of life? No death? Us living in harmony with no exception. It is hard to even fathom with the divide we see in our world today.

Yet, that is exactly how God made this world to be. Before the original sin, God created everything to interconnect perfectly.

God created plants for both humans and animals to eat. Plants as our sole means of consumption meant no killing, no bloodshed. The world was made to thrive while walking with God, while living for Him perfectly and in peace.

After original sin.

Romans 8:19–23 says, “For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God. 20 For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope 21 that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption…”

Once sin was introduced to the world, a curse was put on the creation and changed everything to what we know today – a fallen world.

For the very first time, God made the very first atoning sacrifice. Many people have never thought of this. However, the very first shedding of blood was… from God Himself.

Adam and Eve attempted to cover themselves with figs leaves once they felt guilt and shame from disobeying God. They tried to cover their sin with fig leaves yet the Lord had to cover those sins Himself.

God chose to cover Adam and Eve with animal skins. Genesis 3:21 explains, “And the Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and clothed them.”

The garments of skin were righteousness only. He could provide them for their rebellion. Of course, this was a reflection of how the ultimate shedding of blood in Christ was the only thing that could save us today.

The cycle of life.

We went from perfect harmony with God as He intended, to a different type of living where we shed blood to eat, and so did animals. This is precisely what we see when we speak of the food chain and the food web in our present day.

This world is no longer how it once was when God created it. When animals only needed plants to survive before the “fall,” now they are made to adapt to continue the cycle of life. God made the world to be linked one way, but now we are linked in another.

Food chains and food webs.

Humans (most of us) eat animals, bigger animals eat smaller animals, who eat insects, who eat worms, who need the soil to survive.

The food chain and food web make very important topics for us to explore with our children. The primary reason is that as part of the fall of mankind, next is to explain how everything links to dependence on another to survive on earth.

All plants and animals alike rely on food to provide them the energy to live.

By definition, a food web shows the many different ways plants and animals are connected; the food webs contain several food chains. A food chain, by comparison, only shows one path of how plants and animals are connected. 

These free resources will help you teach your kids all about food chains and food webs:

Food chain/Web FREE Worksheets/Activities/Lesson Plans | Teacher Planet

Simple and Useful Resource on Food Chains/Webs | Primary Homework Help

Bigger Food Chain Samples | Sheppard Software

Explain to Kids: Food Chains | LittleLives

Grab these free printables about food chains and food webs:

FREE Food Chains and Webs Coloring Pages for Preschool Children | Coloring Pages for Toddlers

Food Webs and Food Chains FREE Worksheet | Family 2 Family Learning Resources

30 Food Webs and Food Chains FREE Worksheet | Accounting Invoice

FREE Food Chains and Webs | GreatSchools.org

Food Webs

Ocean Food Web FREE Worksheets | Living Life and Learning

Elementary Ocean Food Web Worksheets

FREE Printable Antarctic Food Web | TrilliumMontessori.ORG

Food Webs FREE Printable Test | Help Teaching

Energy Through an Ecosystem – Food Webs FREE Test | Help Teaching

Food Chains

FREE Printable Food Chain Fact Cards

Free Printable Food Chain Fact Cards text with image examples of cards

Broken Food Chains FREE Download | Teaching Ideas

FREE Food Chain Worksheet | Cookie.com

Forest Food Chain Book and FREE Printable Food Chain Game | Brain Power Boy

Nesting African FREE Food Chain File | Homeschooling Kinetic Kids

FREE Food Chain Cards & Lesson Plan | Homeschooling and Homesteading

Food Chains FREE Unit Helper (Google Classroom Able) | Amy Lynn Teaches

FREE Printable Ocean Food Chain Workbook | Homeschool Hideout

Food Chain FREE Worksheet & Pack | Layton Adventures

Ocean Animals Food Chain FREE Printables | Living Life and Learning

Prairie Food Chain FREE CRAFTivity | Little Learning Lane

Food Chain Lesson and Food Chain FREE Coloring Book | The Homeschool Scientist

Forest Food Pyramid FREE Downloadable Project | Education.com

FREE Food Chain Card Game | STEM Mom

Polar Bear Food Chain Activity FREE Printables | Rainy Day Mum

Deciduous Forest Food Chain Lesson FREE Printables | NurtureStore

First Grade Food Chain FREE Worksheets | Turtle Diary

Primary Producers Consumer Decomposer Food Chain FREE Worksheet PNG | IMGBIN

Six Food Chains (FREE) | Clever Learner

Human Food Chain FREE Coloring Pages for Preschoolers | Craft Play Learn

Food chain and food web activities and games:

10 Enjoyable Food Chain Activities and Resources! | The Discovery Apple

Build a Food Web Game | Exploring Nature

Sharks! – A Shark Food Chain FREE Game | Look Were Learning

Step on it! A Life-Sized Food Web | The Science Penguin

I love the idea of food chains and webs in relation to how God created us to be. It will help us explain why we eat animals for food, why some people choose not to, and provide understanding for either choice. 

We all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. Use these free printables about food chains and food webs to go alongside lessons on His creation to point your kids toward the Creator.

After all, He takes care of the birds, so they never worry where their next meal will come from – so much so does He care for us.

He has covered our sins and made way for us to be reconciled to Him. Amen!

Matthew 6:26, “Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?”

Free Printables About Food Chains and Food Webs text with image collage of fresh produce grown

 

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