Free printable weather worksheets for preschool are handy when you want a weather theme to cover more than simply naming sunny and rainy days. I would use this set with preschoolers who are ready for simple matching, counting, tracing, cutting, and picture sorting.
Each page focuses on a short activity, so you can print one for a quick lesson or spread the set across several days of a weather theme.
Weather activities for preschool
The weather pictures stay familiar from page to page, but children use them in different ways. That gives you several early learning activities without changing the theme.
- Match pairs of sun, cloud, rain, and snowflake pictures.
- Cut and paste clothing into sunny, rainy, and snowy weather boxes.
- Trace straight, wavy, and zigzag lines for rain, wind, and lightning.
- Count groups of suns and circle the correct number.
- Sort pictures into sunny, rainy, and snowy groups.
- Complete simple repeating weather patterns.
- Find and circle the suns hidden among other weather pictures.
- Compare weather pictures and circle the biggest one in each row.
- Roll a die and color the matching row of weather pictures.
- Work through an easy maze to help the sun reach the cloud.
The variety makes it easy to choose a page based on the skill you want to practice that day rather than treating the set like one long worksheet pack.
Early skills mixed into the weather theme
Weather is the theme, but the activities give children practice with several preschool skills at the same time.
Matching and sorting ask children to look closely at pictures and decide where they belong. The sun counting page adds simple counting and number choice, while the pattern activity gives practice spotting what comes next in a repeating sequence.
Tracing the rain, wind, and lightning lines works on pencil control using different movements. Cutting and gluing the clothing, weather pictures, and pattern pieces adds more hands-on fine motor practice. The maze and find-the-suns page also ask children to visually follow and search across the page.
How to use the weather worksheets
Print the page that fits what you are already working on instead of handing over all ten at once.
The matching, find-the-suns, and big versus small pages work well for short table time. Counting and patterns can slide into early math. Save the tracing, maze, and cut-and-paste activities for days when you want a little more pencil or scissor practice.
Most pages only need printing and a pencil or crayons. The clothing sort, weather sort, and pattern activity need cutting and gluing, so child-safe scissors and glue sticks are useful to have nearby. The Roll and Color page needs one die and crayons.
More weather activities to use next
Once you have worked through a few worksheet pages, Weather Bingo is an easy way to keep practicing the same theme in a game format.
For something more hands-on, try the free weather play dough mats. You can also move into the Weather Busy Book when you want more interactive weather activities.
Get the free weather worksheets
Use the download box below to get the full set of preschool weather worksheets. Print one page for a quick weather activity, or choose a few that match the skills you are already practicing.
