Free Preschool Letter, Number and Animal Activities

A printable does not have to become a whole morning’s project. You can choose one picture to name, count a small group of objects or match an animal with its baby, then put the page away. A few minutes of shared attention can be enough for the activity you had in mind.

This free six-page Pedri Studio sample brings together letter tracing, number activities and animal matching. The creator recommends it for ages 3–6. That is a broad range, so choose the parts that suit your child’s interest and comfort with a pencil rather than expecting every box to be completed.

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For personal, non-commercial household printing only. Keep the Pedri Studio credit and workbook link intact. This permission does not include classroom distribution, resale or public reposting.

The sample comes from Pedri Studio’s Alphabet & Numbers Tracing Workbook. The full workbook is a separate paid product; no purchase is needed to use the six sample pages.

Start with one small task

Preview the pages yourself and select one that looks inviting. The first four sheets contain several sections, so you might cover the others with a blank piece of paper while you look at a single picture or tracing line together.

Use ordinary paper and a suitable crayon or pencil. Print with the page fitted inside your printer’s printable area so the outer borders and footer remain visible. You do not need to laminate the sheets or buy special supplies. The pages contain coloured artwork, so preview your printer’s grayscale option if you prefer to save colour ink.

Explore A and B without filling every line

The first two pages introduce A for apple and B for ball. Each combines uppercase and lowercase letters, word tracing, a picture to colour, vocabulary pictures, counting and shapes.

You could begin by finding the apple or ball, naming it and tracing one large letter with a finger. A child interested in writing might then try one dotted letter. Another child might prefer colouring or pointing to a familiar shape. You can leave the word-tracing rows for another day.

If you use the counting boxes, touch each pictured apple or ball once as you count together. The goal is to follow the pictures, not to finish quickly or get through every section.

Look closely at two and three

The next two sheets focus on the numbers 2 and 3, using butterflies and apples. There are dotted numbers and words, pictures to colour, a number-finding grid and a box for writing the count.

Try counting the two butterflies aloud, then looking for a 2 in the grid. On the apple page, count the three apples before finding the matching numeral. Pointing to an answer is an option if writing it feels like too much.

There is no need to move on to a harder task simply because one section went well. Repeating a favourite part or stopping while the activity is still enjoyable are both reasonable choices.

Match animals with their babies

The final two pages use dogs, cats, horses, cows and sheep with their young. One page combines picture matching, tracing animal names and circling the baby animal. The other has two columns for matching each adult with its baby.

Name the pictures together before asking for matches. The pairs are dog and puppy, cat and kitten, horse and foal, cow and calf, and sheep and lamb. You can say an unfamiliar word such as “foal” yourself rather than expecting your child to know it already.

For the numbered matching page, the answers are 1–C, 2–E, 3–D, 4–A and 5–B. Children can point between the pictures or draw connecting lines.

Let the activity stay optional

If your child loses interest, put the sheet aside. You can return later, choose a different page or move back to ordinary play. These worksheets are a resource to use together, not a developmental assessment or a promise of particular learning results.