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Arctic & Polar Animals worksheets for 5 year olds

Nine arctic & polar animals worksheets pitched at 5 year olds, free to print with no account and no watermark. Every one is an easy sheet: big shapes, thick lines and room to be inaccurate.

A polar bear and an arctic fox round out the set, giving a good spread of shapes and sizes for little hands to work with.

They assume a child who writes most uppercase and many lowercase letters, which is typical at five. If that is not there yet, the age 4 sheets are the better place to start.

Sheets in this set include Walrus On An Ice Floe Colouring Page, Seal Balancing a Ball Colouring Page and Sliding Penguin Colouring Page. Each is one page on A4, laid out with margins wide enough that nothing is lost printing on US Letter.

Sessions of ten to fifteen minutes work better than one long sitting. Print at 100% rather than fit-to-page — the gap between the guide lines is what tells a child how tall to make a letter, and shrinking it to 94% quietly undoes that.

What most 5 year olds can do

  • •Writes most uppercase and many lowercase letters
  • •Identifies beginning sounds in spoken words
  • •Adds and subtracts small quantities using pictures
  • •Completes and extends simple repeating patterns

Averages, not targets. Children vary enormously at this age.

9 arctic & polar animals worksheets for 5 year olds