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Cut and Paste Sea Creatures WorksheetCut and Paste Sea Creatures Worksheet
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Kids Can Have Fun
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Pre-K - 1st
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English Language Arts
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15 mins
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Cut and Paste Sea Creatures

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Beautiful sea creatures help teach young children about colors in a simple cut-and-paste activity. After looking at fun illustrations of fish, dolphins, crabs, and octopi, youngsters must cut out and match a series of colored circles to the animals of the same color.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

cutting skills, fish, marine life, colors, the color blue, the color red, the color green, the color yellow, the color purple, the color pink, the color orange

Additional Tags

visual and performing arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Have kids complete this activity as a learning center in primary grade classrooms
  • These materials can be laminated and used as a one-on-one assessment of children's understanding of colors

Classroom Considerations

  • A color printer and/or copier is required to reproduce these materials for children

Pros

  • Instructions are simple and easy for young children to understand
  • Worksheet includes eight different images, each of a different color

Cons

  • None

Common Core

L.K.5.a L.K.5.c L.1.5.a L.1.5.c

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