Animal's World: Sorting Animals by Land, Water, and Air - Printable Worksheet
This sorting worksheet teaches children ages 4-6 to classify animals into three habitat categories — land, water, and air — based on where each animal naturally lives and moves. Classifying by habitat rather than by appearance alone encourages children to think about an animal's features, like fins, wings, or legs, and connect them to function. This three-way sort is more complex than a simple two-category sort, building more advanced categorization skills.
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Month 10: Learning & Development | Ages 6-7
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Curriculum
- Living Things - Animals > Animals & Habitats
How to use this worksheet
Look at each animal picture together and talk about what you already know about where it lives before cutting begins. Have your child cut out each animal picture from the bottom of the page using child-safe scissors. For every animal, ask 'does this animal live on land, in the water, or does it fly in the air?' before gluing it into the matching category box. Once all animals are sorted, review each group and ask your child to name a body part that helps that animal live in its habitat, like fins for swimming.
Materials needed
- Scissors
- Glue
- Pencil
Extension activities
- 1Draw your favorite animal and its habitat.
- 2Research different animals and their habitats.
- 3Create a diorama of an animal habitat.
- 4Visit a zoo, aquarium, or nature park and sort the animals you see into land, water, or air.
- 5Play an animal charades game where your child acts out an animal and others guess its habitat.
Written by
Hemsweta Jain · Teacher Cheena
MBA and Early Childhood Educator, teaching since 2014 · Founder of RaisoActive, Mumbai
Every RaisoActive worksheet is designed and checked by the founder before publishing.
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