Safari & Jungle Animals worksheets for 3 year olds

30 safari & jungle animals worksheets pitched at 3 year olds, free to print with no account and no watermark. Most are straightforward, with one that steps up for a child who is ready for more.

There is a good spread of difficulty: an elephant or a capybara gives younger children large, simple shapes to fill in, while a tiger's stripes or the patterns on other big cats ask for steadier hands and more patience.

They assume a child who copies vertical, horizontal and circular strokes, which is typical at three. If that is not there yet, the age 2 sheets are the better place to start.

Sheets in this set include Big-Billed Platypus Colouring Page, Wombat With A Eucalyptus Leaf Colouring Page and Standing Meerkat Colouring Page. Each is one page on A4, laid out with margins wide enough that nothing is lost printing on US Letter.

Five to ten minutes at a time is plenty at this age, and going outside the lines is the expected outcome rather than a mistake. Print in greyscale to save ink, or slide the sheet into a plastic pocket and hand over a dry-wipe marker so the same page lasts a month.