Insects & Little Bugs worksheets for 5 year olds

Ten insects & little bugs 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.

The subjects range from simple, large-shaped outlines suited to a child still learning to hold a crayon steady, through to pages with more segments and detail, like the dragonfly's wings or the caterpillar's many legs, for a child ready to work more slowly and carefully.

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 Dancing Grasshopper Colouring Page, Cricket On A Leaf Colouring Page and Grasshopper 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.