Free printable weather worksheets
Six sheets on weather: sort what you carry on a rainy day from a sunny one, number a storm from the first cloud to the rainbow, keep a weather diary from Monday to Friday, circle what you need on a snowy day, draw a line from each cloud to what falls from it, and circle the colder place. The diary is the first data work most children ever do. Drawn with the book's tools, and in none of it.
US Letter · 6 pages · black and white · no signup
What is on the sheets
Print at actual size (100%), not "fit to page". The target sizes on these pages are chosen for a particular age of hand, and scaling shrinks them.
Using them well
Start the diary on a Monday
One box a day, drawn after looking out of the window, not from memory. By Friday there is a record, and a record is what a weather scientist keeps.
Thunder is a stopwatch
Count the seconds between the flash and the sound. Five seconds is about a mile. The storm sheet says so, and a child who has counted one will not forget it.
Let them argue about the clothes
A hoodie on a sunny day is a fair answer if it is cold. The sort is a reason to talk, not a test with one key.
Questions
What age are these weather worksheets for?
Four to six. Sorting clothes and matching clouds to what falls work at four. Ordering the storm and the five-day diary are five, and the snowy-day sheet, with eight cards to read, is five or six.
Is there a weather chart to fill in?
Yes. The diary sheet has one box per weekday to draw the sky in, Monday to Friday, with room for a note if it is the kind of day that needs one.
Does my child need to read?
No. The instruction is an icon first with the sentence under it for the adult. The day names on the diary and the words under the cards are for you to read out.
Do I need to sign up or pay?
No. One PDF, six pages, no email address. They are not pages of the book: they are six new activities drawn by the book's renderer, with our mark and this address where a page number would be.
Guides that go with these
Teaching the solar system to a 4–6 year old, accurately
Young children can handle accurate astronomy. What they cannot undo easily is a misconception learned at five.
Choosing a bookWhich activity book for which age: 3, 4, 5 and 6
The maze book lists from three. The other three list from four. Here is what sits inside those ranges: the book for each age, the page to open it at, and the sign that says move up.
For grown-upsHow to sit beside a child doing a worksheet
The most challenging part of an activity book is not on the page. It is sitting there while a four-year-old gets it wrong.
How we make themWhy our activity books are printed in black and white
The research behind it, the one finding that argues against it, and what the child gets in return.
Where these came from
These 6 are not in the book.
Day and night, weather, land and water, living things, the moon and stars, and the eight planets, drawn accurately. Eight planets, correct order, true relative scale on the line-up, current NASA naming, and Pluto named as a dwarf planet where it appears at all. A four-year-old cannot check this. A seven-year-old can.
