Preschool Animals and Their Babies worksheets

About this worksheet

The big idea on this page is not a list of special baby words. It is that a young animal grows into the same kind of animal as its parent, and that some babies look almost the same as the grown-up while others look completely different. Your child works with two life stories the pictures can really show: a hen's egg hatches into a chick and the chick grows into a chicken, and a caterpillar changes into a butterfly. Then they use the same rule on animals they know, seeing a puppy, a kitten or a lamb in the picture and pointing to the grown-up it will become.

Every question is one short sentence read aloud, the young animal is drawn on the page, and every answer is a picture, so a child who cannot read a single word can do the whole sheet. If your child names a baby word you were not expecting, accept it and say the pair back to them: hen and chick, cat and kitten. The ready sheet uses animals that are plainly not a chick or a butterfly as the wrong answers, and the practice and stretch sheets bring in wrong answers that are a little easier to mix up.

What your child will learn

• Match a baby animal to the grown-up it will become
• Follow a hen's egg to a chick and a chick to a chicken
• Follow a caterpillar through its change into a butterfly
• Name the grown-up that laid an egg

Head Start ELOF standard: P-SCI 3, 1-LS3-1