Take a Closer Look at Materials With a Draw and Colour Worksheet

Helping young learners identify materials in their everyday environment builds important observation, classification, and vocabulary skills. These Draw and Colour Worksheets encourage students to explore familiar spaces and think carefully about the objects they see and what they are made from. 

On each Draw and Colour Worksheet, students are prompted to observe their environment, draw objects they see, and identify the materials from which those objects are made. This hands-on approach encourages active learning.

Get Moving to Identify The Materials All Around Us

This set of Foundation Year worksheets invites students to observe different locations and record their observations. Each worksheet focuses on a specific environment and asks students to draw the items they see, then identify the materials used to make them.

The locations included are:

• School
• Classroom
• Library
• Canteen
• Playground

Download Your Early Years’ Material Activity Sheets

Need to make changes before assigning the activity? Click the dropdown arrow on the download button and choose between the printable PDF and editable Google Slides formats. This allows you to customise the Material Activity Sheets to suit your classroom needs.

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

More Material Activities for the Early Years

Pair this resource with additional material investigations, sorting tasks, and observation activities to give students even more opportunities to explore the materials found in their everyday world.

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