5 FREE Cut & Paste Animals and Plants Science Activities

Could you use a hands-on elementary science unit that helps your kids learn about parts of the animal and plant world? Grab this 22-page FREE Cut and Paste Animals and Plants unit and help them learn about vertebrates, invertebrates, habitats, food chains, and more!

Cut & Paste Animals and Plants Unit

In this free unit, kids can complete multiple hands-on science activities such as:

• Identify foods as either fruits or vegetables
• Determine if animals are vertebrates or invertebrates
• Match animals to the proper habitat
• Match plants and animals to their proper place in food chains
• Match parts of plants to the correct terms

These are easy, no-prep science activities that kids can complete with a variety of lessons. Answer keys are also included for a quick check when they are done. Here’s more detail about each option:

Activity #1: Fruits or Vegetables?

Add this hands-on activity to any lesson where homeschool students are learning about fruits and vegetables. Kids can first color 12 different food options. Then they can cut and separate each one by fruit or vegetable. Finally, glue each food choice under the correct section of the page.

The vegetables and fruits included are: apple, carrot, broccoli, pumpkin, onion, watermelon, corn, blackberry, pineapple, pear, banana and artichoke.

Activity #2: Vertebrate or Invertebrate?

Are your students learning the difference between invertebrate and vertebrate animals? If so, then this activity will help reinforce the idea by grouping creatures with a backbone and without.

We’ve included two separate cut & paste activity options to use one for as part of a lesson and the other as a quiz, check for learning, test.

Part 1 includes an Arabian horse, jellyfish, turkey, snail, rabbit, beetle, bee, canary, spider, elk, deer, butterfly.

Part 2 allows kids to separate oyster, beaver, bass, black bear, dragonfly, pelican, porpoise, seahorse, praying mantis, coral, grasshopper, and starfish.

Activity #3: What’s My Habitat?

Any animal study include at least a small discussion on its habitat. To help keep it more interactive homeschoolers can color, cut, and then sort and glue animals into 4 different animal habitats:

• Desert
• Artic
• Ocean
• Rainforest

Included animals are caribou, a desert tortoise, polar bear, fennec, gecko, northern fur seal, Atlantic puffin, meerkat, camel, narwhal, ostrich, walrus, ray, toucan, jellyfish, oyster, sloth, okapi, piranha, beluga whale, lobster, pelican, giant anteater, and a rhinoceros beetle.

Activity #4: Food Chains

A food chain is simply the way energy moves through an ecosystem. An ecosystem is made up of all the living and nonliving things in a certain place. This free food chain activity includes:

• Australian Woodland Food Chain
• Coniferous Forest Food Chain
• African Savanna Food Chain
• Pond Food Chain

Includes items in the food chains are the sun, beetle, possum, plants, dingo, weasel, fox, squirrel, seeds, hyena, zebra, lion, tree, algae, raccoon, larva and fish

Activity #5: Parts of a Plant

The final cut & paste activity can be used as a part of an introduction to botany for younger students. Kids can match words and pictures for the roots, stem leaves and flower after they color and cut each one.

Books and More Animals & Plant Activities

We know that books and other activities are a great way to expand your learning of these science topics. Here are a few to look or at your local library, Amazon or a favorite bookstore:

• Homes and Habitats: A Wild Wonders Book includes interesting questions, colorful photographs and even highlighted vocabulary to help kids learn more about where different animals call home.
• I’m Going to Eat You! Unfold the pages to discover the animal food chain, this engaging book invites young children to learn about animals, the food chain, and nature.
• Food Chain Frenzy (The Magic School Bus Chapter Book, No. 17) – Arnold, Ms. Frizzle, and the whole Magic School Bus crew find themselves in a Food Chain Frenzy as they digest lots of fab facts on ecosystems and eating habits.
• Educational Insights Sprout & Grow Window Plant Growing Kit – This contains everything you need to see and grow a plant grow a see-through planter, seed packets, soil, step-by-step instructions, suggested activities, and journal

Final Thoughts

Cut & paste activities are a great way to add hands-on fun to any lesson including plants and animals. If you are looking for more science related activities then please continue reading our related posts below.