Living Things: Color the Smiles! A Fun Sorting Worksheet

How to use this worksheet

Look at the first picture together and ask your child whether they think it's alive, discussing clues like whether it eats, grows, or moves on its own. If it's a living thing, have them color the smile on that picture; if it's not living, have them leave the smile blank. Continue through each picture on the page, encouraging your child to explain their reasoning for each choice. Once finished, review the page together, naming which items were living and which were non-living.

Materials needed

• Pencil
• Crayons

Extension activities

• 1Go on a walk and sort things you see into living and non-living categories out loud.
• 2Create a collage from magazine cutouts, grouping living things separately from non-living things.
• 3Talk about what living things need to survive, like food, water, and air, using examples from home.
• 4Draw an original living thing and an original non-living thing and label each.
• 5Play a quick game naming an object and having your child respond 'living' or 'non-living'.