Living and Non-Living Things Word Search Worksheet for Kids

How to use this worksheet

Look at the word list together before starting and read each word aloud, asking your child whether it names something living or non-living. Have them scan the letter grid to find and circle each word, using a red crayon for living things and a blue crayon for non-living things as they find them. Continue until every word on the list has been found and color-coded. Review the finished grid together, asking your child to explain why each item belongs in its category.

Materials needed

• Pencil
• Red crayon
• Blue crayon

Extension activities

• 1Go on a nature walk and sort everything you see into a 'living' or 'non-living' list.
• 2Sort toys and household objects at home into living and non-living piles (using pictures for living things like animals).
• 3Draw one new living thing and one new non-living thing that weren't on the worksheet's word list.
• 4Create a homemade word search using new living and non-living vocabulary words.
• 5Talk about what living things need to survive — food, water, air — and compare that to non-living objects.