Animal Homes Matching Worksheet for Preschoolers
By matching each animal to its home, children ages 3-5 build early classification skills and expand their vocabulary around habitats like nests, dens, hives, and burrows. This kind of cause-and-effect pairing — this animal lives in this particular place — lays groundwork for later science concepts about how living things depend on their environment.
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Month 7: Holistic Kindergarten Curriculum | Ages 5-6
This is page 25 of the pack. Ages 5-6 · KindergartenAges 5-6 · Year 1Ages 5-6 · UKGAges 5-6
Curriculum
- Living Things - Animals > Animals & Habitats
How to use this worksheet
Look over the animal and home pictures together first, naming each one aloud so your child knows what they're working with. Have them cut out the home pictures at the bottom of the page along the dotted lines. For each animal shown, ask your child to decide which home fits it and explain their thinking before gluing it into the matching box. Once every pair is glued down, review the finished page together, saying each animal-and-home pair as a full sentence, like 'The bird lives in a nest.'
Materials needed
- Scissors
- Glue
- Pencil
Extension activities
- 1Visit a local park, zoo, or farm and point out real animal homes like burrows, nests, or hives when you see them.
- 2Build a pretend animal home out of blocks, a shoebox, or twigs and have your child explain why it suits a particular animal.
- 3Read a picture book about animal habitats and pause on each page to predict where the featured animal lives.
- 4Play an animal-and-home matching memory game using small printed cards.
- 5Draw a simple scene with several animals in the wrong homes and ask your child to spot and fix the mistakes.
Written by
Hemsweta Jain · Teacher Cheena
MBA and Early Childhood Educator, teaching since 2014 · Founder of RaisoActive, Mumbai
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