Caring for Pets Worksheets for Year 1

Teach your students how to responsibly care for pets with this engaging printable worksheet pack designed for Year 1 learners. With this Caring for Pets Worksheet Pack, students explore how humans meet the needs of animals and why proper care is important.

These Caring for Pets Worksheets support early science standards by helping students understand that pets are living things with needs that humans must meet every day.

What’s Included in This Pet Care Worksheet Pack?

This printable Pet Care Worksheet Pack includes a variety of interactive worksheets to keep young learners engaged:

• Fact or Fiction Cut-and-Paste – Identify true and false statements about caring for pets
• Caring for Pets Maze – Help a pet through a maze by colouring in its needs
• Caring for a Cat / Caring for a Dog Reading Comprehension – Read and respond to simple nonfiction texts
• Food Source Matching Worksheet – Match animals with what they eat
• Pet Needs Sorting Cut-and-Paste – Sort items into “Needs” and “Not Needs”
• Five Needs of a Pet Worksheet – Draw the needs of pets
• How I Would Care for a Pet – Write or draw how they would feed, clean, and protect a pet
• Home Sweet Home Sort – Match pets to the shelters they live in
• Circle What This Pet Needs – Identify essential items from a group of choices

Download Your Pet Care Worksheets

Print and go! These no-prep Pet Care Worksheets make it easy to teach responsible pet care while reinforcing key Year 1 science concepts about living things and their needs.

It is available in both printable PDF and editable Google Slides format. To get your copy, click the dropdown arrow on the download button to select your preferred file type.

This resource was created by Lindsey Phillips, a teacher and Teach Starter Collaborator.

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