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Ant Printables Pack {insect printables}

April 7, 2014 by Katie 9 Comments

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We have been getting into a habit at our house of doing an insect unit study every so often focused on one particular type of insect. We previously studied ladybugs, butterflies, and silkworms. Our most recent unit, however, was focused on ants.

As part of our ant unit, I created an Ant Printables Pack with 60 activities focused on skills such as shapes, fine motor skills, math, and literacy. I hope your little ones enjoy!

Looking for more printables and activities for learning about ants and other insects? Check out my Insects Unit Study page.

Ant Printables Pack with 60 ant-themed worksheets and activities for kids ages 2-7. This is a great resource for a preschool or kindergarten insect unit! || Gift of Curiosity

What’s in the Ant Printables Pack?

When I do a unit study, we spend a lot of time focused on content learning related to the topic. In the case of our ant unit, we learned about their anatomy, their tunnels, their eating habits, and more.

My Ant Printables Pack, however, is focused not so much on learning about ants but on getting kids to work on other skills like fine motor skills, math, and literacy. I find that my kids are more motivated to work on these skills when I provide them with ways to do so that connect to the theme of the unit we are working on.

My Ant Printables Pack contains 60 ant-themed worksheets and activities for kids ages 2 to 7. The activities in this pack cover a range of skills, including:

  • shapes and sizes
  • colors
  • same vs. different
  • patterning
  • puzzles
  • fine motor
  • mazes
  • math (number identification, counting, addition, subtraction)
  • literacy (letter identification, alphabetical order, phonemic awareness, word searches)
Insects Printables Bundle from Gift of Curiosity

Here is a sneak peak at the 60 activities included in this download:

Ant Printables Pack with 60 ant-themed worksheets and activities for kids ages 2-7. This is a great resource for a preschool or kindergarten insect unit! || Gift of Curiosity
 

See the Ant Printables Pack in action. . .

Both kids worked on these ant mazes, helping the ant find the fruit to eat. As you’ll see, I put these worksheets into our Crayola Dry Erase Activity Centers so that I could re-use them. Plus, when the kids make a mistake on their worksheets it is so easy to erase and start again when using the Crayola Dry Erase Activity Centers!

Ant Printables Pack with 60 ant-themed worksheets and activities for kids ages 2-7. This is a great resource for a preschool or kindergarten insect unit! || Gift of Curiosity

As you can see by comparing the photo above with the photo below, the mazes the kids worked on had different levels of difficulty. Indeed, many of the activities in my Ant Printables Pack include multiple levels so you can tailor the activity to kids at different levels.

Ant Printables Pack with 60 ant-themed worksheets and activities for kids ages 2-7. This is a great resource for a preschool or kindergarten insect unit! || Gift of Curiosity

The kids enjoyed this activity that required them to sort and paste items that ants eat vs. items that ants would not eat. We had some good discussions from this about why they thought ants would eat certain things but not others.

Ant Printables Pack with 60 ant-themed worksheets and activities for kids ages 2-7. This is a great resource for a preschool or kindergarten insect unit! || Gift of Curiosity
 

I pulled out our do-a-dot markers so XGirl could do this ant trail activity.

Ant Printables Pack with 60 ant-themed worksheets and activities for kids ages 2-7. This is a great resource for a preschool or kindergarten insect unit! || Gift of Curiosity

Both kids worked on their scissors skills.

Ant Printables Pack with 60 ant-themed worksheets and activities for kids ages 2-7. This is a great resource for a preschool or kindergarten insect unit! || Gift of Curiosity

After QBoy cut out his ants, he wanted to play an “ants in the pants” game, so I stuffed a few ants down his pant leg for him.

Yes, we do try to keep learning light and fun at our home.  🙂

Ant Printables Pack with 60 ant-themed worksheets and activities for kids ages 2-7. This is a great resource for a preschool or kindergarten insect unit! || Gift of Curiosity

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More ant learning resources

More ant posts from Gift of Curiosity:

  • Ant Do-a-Dot Printables
  • Ant 3-Part Cards
  • What do ants like to eat? – a backyard science experiment
  • Ant anatomy activity and printable
  • Learning about ant habitats
  • Books about ants

For more resources, printables and activities related to ants and other insects, please see my Insects Unit Study page and my Insects & Bugs Pinterest board.

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  1. Dulce says

    April 7, 2014 at 7:32 am

    Thank you!!

    Reply
  2. Thaleia (@Something2Offer) says

    April 13, 2014 at 12:24 pm

    Just in time for the warm weather and before Summer learning. Grab a picnic basket and go find real-life ants in action. Thanks for sharing during the Thoughtful Spot Blog Hop!

    Reply
  3. ROME' says

    October 26, 2014 at 4:32 pm

    Thank You!!

    Reply
  4. Vic says

    April 2, 2015 at 8:50 am

    Thanks a lot for your printables! I use them for my little girl! Bye, bye from France!

    Reply
  5. belen says

    June 7, 2015 at 5:00 pm

    I wrote from Argentina, I´m teacher, I work with special kids. Thank You for all this printables. I use them a lot. 🙂

    Reply
    • Katie SG says

      June 7, 2015 at 8:10 pm

      Welcome! Bienvenida! I hope you and your students enjoy.

      Reply
  6. Hazel says

    July 22, 2015 at 6:02 pm

    My son’s teacher used a print out and I LOVED seeing him talk about it when he got home from preschool. Such a wonderful resource. I’ll be using some at home during summer break! Thanks!

    Reply
    • Katie SG says

      July 22, 2015 at 9:27 pm

      So glad you found me and that your son enjoyed sharing his work. I hope you find resources here that will help you and your son stay engaged!

      Reply
  7. Lizaan says

    November 3, 2015 at 7:36 am

    Thank you so so much…..

    Reply

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