Farm and Wild Animals Cut and Paste Worksheet for Preschoolers
Sorting each cut-out animal into 'Farm' or 'Wild' teaches an early classification skill — grouping items by a shared category rather than just by appearance — which is foundational to later science and math thinking. At ages 3-5, deciding where an animal belongs also builds vocabulary and general knowledge about where different animals actually live, alongside the scissor and gluing practice.
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Preschool Scissor Skills Activity Book: Fine Motor & Craft Fun for Ages 3-6
This is page 5 of the pack. Ages 3-6 · Preschool–KindergartenAges 3-6 · Nursery–Year 1Ages 3-6 · Nursery–UKGAges 3-6
Curriculum
- Fine Motor > Scissor Skills & Cutting
How to use this worksheet
Before cutting, look at each animal picture together and ask your child to name it, prompting if needed. Cut out the animal pictures along their dotted lines, keeping them in a small pile. One at a time, ask your child to decide whether each animal belongs on a farm or in the wild, and glue it into the correct section of the page. Once every animal is sorted and glued, review the two groups together and talk about why each animal lives where it does.
Materials needed
- Scissors
- Glue
- Pencil
Extension activities
- 1Sort toy animals into farm and wild groups using a toy barn and a stuffed-animal 'jungle' corner.
- 2Visit a farm, petting zoo, or zoo and notice which animals you saw in each place.
- 3Make farm sounds and wild animal sounds and have your child guess which category each belongs to.
- 4Draw a simple farm scene and a simple wild scene on two sheets of paper.
- 5Read a book featuring farm animals and a separate one featuring wild animals, then compare them.
Written by
Hemsweta Jain · Teacher Cheena
MBA and Early Childhood Educator, teaching since 2014 · Founder of RaisoActive, Mumbai
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