Explore printable living things worksheets designed for Pre-K, Kindergarten, and 1st Grade science practice. The collection begins with visual activities for identifying and sorting living and nonliving things, then develops the concept through picture comparisons, basic needs, growth and change, environmental observation, and simple evidence children can use to decide whether something is living. Activities include circling, matching, cut-and-paste sorting, coloring, drawing, picture classification, science clue activities, independent practice, mixed review, and assessment. The progression gives young learners multiple ways to practice the core living-things concept while keeping directions visual and developmentally appropriate.
Explore 22 worksheets related to living things worksheets currently available in our library. Living things worksheets help young learners identify living organisms, distinguish living from nonliving things, and explore simple clues such as growth and basic needs. This topic includes visual identification, sorting, matching, observation, comparison, drawing, practice, review, and early science assessment activities for Pre-K, Kindergarten, and 1st Grade learners.
Living Things Need Things
Children match six familiar living things to something each needs, using picture-supported resources such as water, food, or sunlight where appropriate. The activity introduces the idea that living things depend on resources to live.
Does It Need Water to Live?
Children look at 12 pictures and mark only the six living things that need water to live. Familiar organisms are contrasted with objects that are not strongly associated with water, keeping the science concept clear.
Living Thing or Object?
Children compare eight pairs such as a real dog and toy dog, a real flower and artificial flower, and a child and doll, then circle the living member of each pair. The activity builds discrimination based on being alive rather than appearance.
Living Things Picture Match
Children connect ten mixed pictures to one of two category anchors, LIVING or NONLIVING. The matching format provides another visual way to practice classification using a fresh set of animals, plants, and objects.
Color the Living Things
Children color only the six living things among 12 large black-and-white pictures. The simple single-action format is suited to Pre-K and Kindergarten learners who benefit from visual classification with minimal text.
Cross Out the Nonliving Things
Children place an X over the six nonliving things among 12 fresh pictures while leaving the living things unmarked. The page reverses the target category and learner action for additional independent classification practice.
My Living Things Hunt
Children look around their own environment and draw one living thing they could find at home, at school, and outside. Large drawing spaces and short sentence frames support observation, application, and optional labeling.
What Do Living Things Do?
Children use four illustrated clues—growing, needing water, needing food, and responding to the environment—to connect everyday situations with observable characteristics of living things. The focus remains concrete and age-appropriate.
Is It Living? Look for Clues
Children examine eight picture cases, mark simple clues such as grows, needs water, or needs food/energy, and then decide whether each example is living or nonliving. The page develops evidence-based reasoning beyond appearance alone.
Plants Are Living Things
Children identify five living plants among ten pictures and review two simple clues: plants grow and plants need water. The worksheet directly reinforces that plants are living things even though they do not move around like animals.
Animals Are Living Things
Children identify five living animals among ten pictures, including varied examples such as a bird, fish, rabbit, snail, and butterfly. Small visual reminders reinforce that animals grow and need resources to live.
Living Things Grow
Children examine eight before-and-after picture pairs and check the four that show a living thing growing. The activity contrasts biological growth with nonliving objects and provides independent practice with growth as evidence of life.
What Needs Food?
Children mark the six people or animals among 12 pictures that need food to live. Nonliving objects provide clear contrast, while plants are intentionally omitted so the everyday meaning of food does not confuse the early science concept.
Which One Is Living?
Children complete ten rows of three pictures, circling the one living thing in each row. Thirty total pictures provide substantial rapid visual-discrimination practice with people, animals, plants, and nonliving distractors.
Which One Is Nonliving?
Children complete ten rows of three pictures, crossing out the one nonliving object in each row. The 30-picture set is different from the companion living-things page and continues to include plants among the living examples.
Living or Nonliving? Practice 1
Children classify 16 numbered pictures in a 4 × 4 grid by circling LIVING or NONLIVING beneath each picture. The page provides a larger independent practice set after guided visual activities.
Living or Nonliving? Practice 2
Children classify a second set of 16 new pictures by circling LIVING or NONLIVING beneath each item. New organisms, objects, and answer positions make this a complete additional practice page rather than a reordered duplicate.
Draw Living and Nonliving Things
Children draw one living thing and one nonliving thing in two large sections, then use simple picture-supported prompts to discuss whether the living example grows, needs water, and needs resources to live. Writing remains optional or adult-supported.
Living Things Clue Match
Children match six short science sentences to six illustrations, using statements such as a plant grows, a dog needs water, and a bird needs food. Visual support keeps the clue-reading activity accessible to beginning 1st Grade readers.
Living Things True or Not?
Children read or listen to ten short picture-supported statements and mark YES or NO. The statements check basic ideas already practiced, such as plants being living, living things growing, animals needing water, and toys being nonliving.
Living Things Mixed Review
Children complete four compact review sections: identify living things, classify living and nonliving pictures, mark examples that need water, and match young or small living things with later or larger forms. The page reviews the collection's main early-science skills.
Living Things Check-Up
Children complete a 15-item final check with living/nonliving picture classifications, basic evidence questions about growth or needs, and picture-group applications. The concise assessment checks identification, classification, and simple evidence without extended writing.
FAQs About Living things worksheets
Living things worksheets are early science activities that help children identify living organisms and distinguish them from nonliving objects using pictures, sorting, matching, observation, and simple science clues.
Living things are organisms that carry out life processes such as growing and using resources to survive, while nonliving things do not carry out these biological processes.
Yes. Plants are living things because they grow, require resources such as water, and carry out life processes even though they do not move from place to place like most animals.
Young children can begin with familiar pictures and real-world examples, then practice identifying, matching, sorting, comparing, and observing living and nonliving things.
Living things need resources from their environment. Young learners commonly begin by exploring familiar needs such as water and appropriate sources of energy or nutrients.
Simple picture-based living and nonliving activities are especially suitable for Pre-K and Kindergarten, while 1st Grade worksheets can add basic characteristics, evidence, vocabulary, and reasoning.