World Turtle Day Worksheets for Preschool (Ages 3–5) – Fun Animal Activities
Age Group: 3–6 years No. of Pages: 11 Format: Printable PDF
World Turtle Day is on 23 May. This 11-page printable pack for children aged 3–6 uses turtles for counting, colour by number, tracing, cut-and-paste building, patterns and a maze that avoids ocean trash.
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About This Worksheet
Turtles live in seas, ponds and gardens, and many need our help to stay safe from litter. The pack teaches counting and patterns while showing children how to protect turtles.
Children colour by number, find the different picture, tick food turtles eat and cross trash, count and colour turtles, trace turtle words, build a turtle from cut-out parts, match turtles to their homes, match groups with the same number, help a turtle home avoiding trash and continue turtle patterns.
Activities in This Pack
- Colour by number
- Find the difference
- What should the turtle eat? Tick or cross
- Count and colour the turtles
- Let’s trace the turtle
- Build the turtle: cut and paste
- Match the turtle to its home
- Count and match
- Turtle’s way home: avoid the trash
- Turtle pattern fun: cut and paste
Skills Your Child Practises
- Animal awareness
- Counting
- Number recognition
- Patterns
- Matching
- Scissor skills
How to Use This Worksheet
- Look at pictures of sea, pond and pet turtles.
- Talk about keeping beaches free of plastic.
- Count real objects for the counting pages.
- Do the cutting pages with an adult nearby.
- Move slowly like a turtle for a brain break.
What’s Next?
Next in the May calendar is World No Tobacco Day (31 May). For more themed days, see our General Knowledge worksheets.
Where This Worksheet Fits
World Turtle Day (23 May) is one of fourteen May days in the IdeazSuper themed-day collection. Use the packs in date order to plan a full month of activities:
- Labour Day (1 May): community helpers and their tools
- World Tuna Day (2 May): tuna, sea life and counting to ten
- World Laughter Day (first Sunday of May): smiles, silly faces and patterns
- Anti-Bullying Day (4 May): kindness and naming feelings
- World Red Cross Day (8 May): helping others and the red cross
- Mother’s Day (second Sunday of May): love for mum and a handprint bouquet
- International Nurses Day (12 May): nurses, their tools and a thank-you card
- International Day of Light (16 May): light sources and shadows
- World Hypertension Day (17 May): heart-healthy habits
- International Museum Day (18 May): art, history and museum manners
- World Day for Cultural Diversity (21 May): flags, homes and cultures
- International Day for Biological Diversity (22 May): plants, animals and their homes
- World Turtle Day (23 May): this pack
- World No Tobacco Day (31 May): clean air and healthy lungs
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Frequently Asked Questions
When is World Turtle Day?
World Turtle Day is on 23 May.
What do children learn?
Turtle homes and food, counting, patterns and why litter harms animals.
How many pages are in the pack?
The World Turtle Day pack has 11 printable pages.
What do I need?
A printer, pencils and crayons. Some pages also need child-safe scissors and glue.
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Looking for more themed days? Browse all our General Knowledge worksheets for preschool and kindergarten, with printable packs for special days across the year.