Germs Sorting Activities | Spread Germs or Stop Germs | SPED Health & Hygiene

Make teaching germs, hygiene and healthy choices visual, simple and hands-on with this Spread Germs or Stop Germs Picture Sorting Activity!

Designed with special education, preschool, kindergarten and early learners in mind, this resource helps students recognise everyday actions that can spread germs and actions that can help stop germs.

Students aren't expected to read complicated health information. Instead, they work with clear, kid-friendly pictures showing situations they can actually recognise—washing hands, sharing drinks, coughing, sneezing, using tissues, cleaning surfaces and more.

Perfect for health lessons, life skills, hygiene units, back-to-school routines, cold and flu season, SPED classrooms and visual learners.

⭐ What's Included?

This germ awareness resource includes:

• 3 Spread Germs or Stop Germs picture sorting activities
• Color versions of the sorting activities
• Black-and-white versions for easy printing
• 24 different picture-based germ and hygiene actions
• Large sorting spaces for easier cutting, placing and gluing
• Clear Spread Germs and Stop Germs categories
• 10 What Should I Do? healthy-choice scenario pages
• Two simple choices on each scenario page
• Germs Smart! positive reinforcement section
• Editable name choice page so you can personalise the activities for individual students

🦠 Real-Life Germ and Hygiene Skills

Rather than focusing only on handwashing, students explore a variety of everyday situations.

Pictures cover concepts such as coughing and sneezing safely, washing hands, sharing food and drinks, using tissues, touching the face, using hand sanitiser, cleaning surfaces, personal hygiene and making safer choices around germs.

The visual format makes these concepts easier to discuss with students who may struggle with lengthy verbal explanations.

✂️ Sort It, Discuss It & Make a Choice!

Start with the picture sorts and have students decide whether each action SPREADS GERMS or STOPS GERMS.

Then extend the learning with the What Should I Do? pages.

Students are presented with a familiar situation and choose between two possible responses. These pages are a great way to move beyond simply identifying a picture and encourage students to apply what they've learned to everyday situations.

Personalise the activity with each student's name and turn the completed page into a fun positive-reinforcement activity they can proudly take home!

❤️ Great for SPED & Early Learners

The simple layouts, large pictures and limited choices make this resource particularly useful for students who benefit from visual supports, repetition and concrete examples.

Use it for:

• Special education and life skills
• Preschool and kindergarten
• Health and hygiene lessons
• Autism support classrooms
• AAC users
• ESL/ELL learners
• School readiness
• Social-emotional and independent living skills
• Small groups or 1:1 instruction
• Morning work and health centers

Students can sort it, talk about it, make a choice and practise healthier habits—without another page full of tiny text getting in the way!