Vegetable Wheel: Spin a Vegetable to Cook

Vegetable wheel with 16 vegetables, from carrot to sweet potato. Spin one to cook tonight, to plant, or for a healthy-eating lesson.

Dinner sides
Gardening
Taste tests

On this wheel

Carrot
Broccoli
Peas
Corn
Potato
Tomato
Cucumber
Spinach
Pepper
Lettuce
Onion
Pumpkin

Why use a vegetable wheel

Sixteen vegetables are on the wheel. Spin one for tonight’s side dish, the next seeds to plant, or a vegetable each child tries and rates.

Choose tonight’s vegetable side
Spin once and cook that vegetable with dinner.
Pick the next seeds to plant
Families spin a vegetable to grow in the garden or a pot.
Run a vegetable taste test in class
Each child spins one, tries it and gives it a score.

This wheel wears the Meadow-Go-Round theme: pastel meadow hills and wildflowers, with wildflower washes on the wheel. Your own copy keeps it, or pick another wheel theme.

How to use the vegetable wheel

Click the wheel to spin it.
Wait for it to slow down and stop on a random entry. The winner pops up on screen.
Click “Hide & Respin” to take the winner out and spin again, so nothing is picked twice.
Click “Create your own vegetable picker” to save your own copy, change the entries, and share or embed it.

All 16 entries on the vegetable wheel

Carrot
Broccoli
Peas
Corn
Potato
Tomato
Cucumber
Spinach
Pepper
Lettuce
Onion
Pumpkin
Cauliflower
Zucchini
Celery
Sweet potato

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I get kids to try a new vegetable?

Let them spin it: when the wheel picks, it’s a game, not a rule. Try it three ways before deciding.

Is the wheel really random?

Yes. Every entry has a slice of the same size, and where the wheel stops is picked with your browser’s cryptographically secure random number generator (crypto.getRandomValues), so nobody can predict or rig the result.

Can I change the entries on this wheel?

Yes. Click “Create your own vegetable picker” to save your own copy. You can then add, remove or rename entries, change the theme and spin settings, and share or embed your wheel.