Keeping Our Environment Clean Worksheet for Kids
This worksheet builds early environmental awareness in children ages 3-5 by having them evaluate pictured actions — like throwing litter in a bin versus littering on the ground — and mark each one as good or bad for the environment. Making this judgment call requires children to connect a specific action to a broader consequence, an early form of cause-and-effect reasoning applied to environmental responsibility. Introducing this concept young helps normalize caring for shared spaces as a natural part of daily behavior rather than an abstract adult concern.
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Month 1: Learning & Development | Ages 6-7
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How to use this worksheet
Look at each picture together and read the accompanying statement describing the action shown. Ask your child whether the action helps keep the environment clean or makes it dirty. If it's a good action, have them tick the box; if it's a bad action, have them cross it out. Continue through the page, discussing what could be done differently for any 'bad action' pictures.
Materials needed
- Pencil
- Crayons
Extension activities
- 1Discuss other ways to keep the environment clean, like recycling or picking up litter on a walk.
- 2Draw pictures of clean environments, like a tidy park or a clean beach.
- 3Go on a short neighborhood cleanup walk, picking up litter with gloves and a bag.
- 4Sort household recycling together, talking about why sorting matters.
- 5Create a family pledge listing small actions everyone will do to help the environment.
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Hemsweta Jain · Teacher Cheena
MBA and Early Childhood Educator, teaching since 2014 · Founder of RaisoActive, Mumbai
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