Chicken Life Cycle Flashcards: Learn About Chickens!

How to use this worksheet

Have your child cut out each flashcard along the dotted lines, keeping them in a loose pile. Look at each picture together and describe what's happening at that stage of the chicken's life, from an egg in a nest to a fluffy chick to a fully grown chicken. Ask your child to arrange the cards in the correct order based on the chicken's growth, laying them out from first to last. Review the finished sequence together, using the cards to retell the whole life cycle in your child's own words.

Materials needed

• Scissors
• Optional: Glue or Tape

Extension activities

• 1Visit a farm or watch a video of real chicken eggs hatching to see the life cycle in action.
• 2Draw your own set of chicken life cycle stages on a blank sheet of paper.
• 3Compare a chicken's life cycle to another bird's or animal's life cycle and talk about similarities and differences.
• 4Act out being a chicken at each stage, curling up small as an egg and eventually 'growing' into a standing adult.
• 5Read a picture book about farm animals and find the part that shows how chickens grow.