Weather Matching Worksheet for Preschoolers
Cutting out weather name labels and gluing them beside the matching picture teaches children ages 3-5 vocabulary for common weather types, like sunny, rainy, or snowy, while connecting a written word to something they can observe outside every day. Because the labels must be read and correctly matched rather than simply circled, this worksheet also builds early sight-word recognition tied to real, familiar concepts. Weather is something children experience daily, which makes this an especially concrete entry point into word-to-picture matching.
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How to use this worksheet
Have your child cut out the weather name labels at the bottom of the page. Look at the first weather picture together and describe what's happening in it, like clouds, rain, or sunshine. Read each weather label aloud and ask your child to find the one that matches the picture, then glue it into place beside that image. Continue through each weather picture on the page, encouraging your child to say the weather word aloud as they glue each label.
Materials needed
- Scissors
- Glue
- Pencil
Extension activities
- •Check the weather outside together each morning for a week and record it using drawings or words.
- •Make a simple weather wheel with a spinning arrow pointing to different weather types.
- •Talk about what clothes are needed for each type of weather shown on the worksheet.
- •Look at pictures or a short video of extreme weather, like snow or thunderstorms, and talk about what makes them different from everyday weather.
- •Draw your own weather picture and label it using one of the words from the worksheet.
Tips for parents and teachers
If your child glues a label to the wrong picture, ask them to describe what they see happening in the picture again and compare it to the word, which often reveals the mismatch on its own. Weather vocabulary connects naturally to daily conversation, so keep using these words when talking about the actual forecast or what to wear each day. Some weather types, like 'cloudy' versus 'overcast,' can look similar in pictures, so it's fine to talk through subtle differences together.
Written by
Hemsweta Jain · Teacher Cheena
MBA and Early Childhood Educator, teaching since 2014 · Founder of RaisoActive, Mumbai
Every RaisoActive worksheet is designed and checked by the founder before publishing.
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