Fall is the perfect time to bring pumpkins, apples, leaves, and friendly scarecrows into learning time. If you’re looking for an easy seasonal activity, I created these free scarecrow worksheets to give preschool and kindergarten children a fun way to practice early literacy, handwriting, vocabulary, letter recognition, and fine motor skills.
This small printable set is easy to add to a fall unit, farm theme, literacy center, morning work, or a quiet activity at home. The pages are black and white, so children can also add plenty of fall color as they work.
Scarecrow themes work especially well during the fall because you can easily build an entire mini lesson around them. Pair the worksheets with a picture book, talk about the different parts of a scarecrow, and finish with a simple paper plate scarecrow craft for a hands-on learning day.
What’s Included in These Free Scarecrow Worksheets?
I kept this free printable set small and focused so you can easily print the pages you need without ending up with a huge packet.
The free scarecrow worksheets include four printable learning activities:
S Is for Scarecrow Letter Tracing Worksheet
The first activity introduces children to uppercase and lowercase S with the phrase “S is for scarecrow.”
Children can trace the word scarecrow, practice tracing uppercase S and lowercase s, and color the little scarecrow picture when they are finished.
I think this page would fit especially well into a Letter S lesson or fall alphabet review. You can also encourage children to say the /s/ sound as they trace each letter.
Label the Scarecrow Worksheet
The Label the Scarecrow activity adds a little cutting and pasting to the pack.
Children cut out the words at the bottom of the page and glue each one beside the correct part of the scarecrow. The vocabulary words included are:
- hat
- face
- shirt
- straw
- pole
This type of activity gives children an opportunity to work on seasonal vocabulary while also practicing cutting, gluing, and matching words to pictures. Labeling scarecrow parts is also used in other preschool resources as an early vocabulary activity.
For younger preschoolers, you can read each word aloud and help them determine where it belongs. Kindergarten children may be ready to identify some of the words using beginning sounds or other familiar letters.
Scarecrow Line Tracing Worksheet
Next is a scarecrow line tracing worksheet designed for prewriting and pencil-control practice.
Children trace the dotted lines that make up the scarecrow, color the finished picture, and then trace the word scarecrow underneath it.
This is an easy page to add to a fine motor or handwriting center. Children don’t need to complete every activity in one sitting, either. You could use the scarecrow tracing page one day and save the alphabet activities for another.
Letter S Scarecrow Letter Hunt
The final activity is a Letter S Hunt.
Children search through the circles and dab or color each lowercase s they find.
You can use crayons, markers, bingo daubers, or small counters if you place the worksheet inside a reusable page protector.
Letter hunts are a nice change from traditional tracing because children have to visually distinguish the target letter from other lowercase letters.
Skills Children Can Practice With Scarecrow Worksheets
Although these printable scarecrow activities have a playful fall theme, there is plenty of early learning tucked inside.
Children can practice letter recognition, uppercase and lowercase letters, handwriting, pencil control, visual discrimination, fall vocabulary, cutting, gluing, and fine motor skills.
Seasonal worksheets often incorporate skills such as tracing, letter recognition, counting, and word recognition because the familiar pictures can be used to reinforce early learning concepts.
You don’t have to use every page at once. In fact, I think these activities work especially well when they’re mixed with books, crafts, and hands-on learning rather than treated as a packet children need to finish from beginning to end.
Easy Ways to Use These Scarecrow Worksheets
For teachers, these pages can easily become part of your fall literacy centers, morning work, early-finisher activities, small groups, or independent practice. Seasonal worksheets are commonly used in centers, small groups, morning work, and at-home practice, which makes a small printable pack like this easy to fit into an existing routine.
Homeschool families can turn the worksheets into a simple scarecrow-themed learning day. Start with a scarecrow picture book, talk about what scarecrows are and where children might see one, complete one or two printable activities, and then finish with the scarecrow craft below.
You can also spread the activities throughout a fall week.
One day might be devoted to the Letter S worksheet, another to labeling the scarecrow, and another to the tracing activity. That keeps practice short while still giving children repeated exposure to the theme.
Scarecrow Books to Read With Your Worksheets
Adding a picture book is one of my favorite ways to turn a few printable pages into a more complete themed activity.
Reading aloud also supports early literacy by exposing preschool children to vocabulary, print concepts, stories, and ideas outside their everyday experiences.
Here are a few scarecrow picture books to look for at your library or add to your fall bookshelf:
The Little Scarecrow Boy by Margaret Wise Brown
A classic story about a little scarecrow who wants to follow in his father’s footsteps and learn how to frighten crows. It’s an especially fun choice before completing the scarecrow activities.
The Scarecrow’s Hat by Ken Brown
This story follows Chicken as she works through a chain of trades to get the scarecrow’s hat. The story also lends itself well to activities involving the Letter S, patterns, vocabulary, and fine motor practice.
Otis and the Scarecrow by Loren Long
This is another fall-themed choice featuring a scarecrow, with a story that can open conversations about friendship and empathy.
Hopefully the Scarecrow by Michelle Houts
This story follows a scarecrow who develops a friendship with a young girl who regularly comes to the garden to read to him.
If you use Amazon affiliate links on your blog, this is also a natural place to link the books so parents and teachers can easily find the titles you recommend.
Make a Paper Plate Scarecrow Craft
After completing the free scarecrow worksheets, you can continue the theme with a paper plate scarecrow craft.
For my version, I would keep the supplies simple: a 9-inch paper plate, printable scarecrow template, crayons or washable paint, construction paper, scissors, and glue.
Children can color or paint the plate for the scarecrow’s face and then add the hat, straw hair, eyes, nose, cheeks, and other template pieces. Once everything is glued together, they can add a smile to finish their scarecrow.
The craft gives children another opportunity for cutting, gluing, coloring, and fine motor practice while reinforcing the same scarecrow theme found in the worksheets.
You could even use the Label the Scarecrow worksheet first and then ask children to identify some of those same parts on their finished craft.
Turn It Into a Simple Scarecrow Learning Day
You don’t need an elaborate lesson plan to make these pages more meaningful.
Start by reading one of the scarecrow books above. Then talk about what a scarecrow looks like and what children notice about its clothing, hat, straw, and pole.
Complete the Label the Scarecrow worksheet together and introduce the word scarecrow. Emphasize its beginning sound and point out that scarecrow begins with S.
Next, children can complete either the S tracing page or Letter S Hunt.
Finish with the paper plate scarecrow craft.
That gives you reading, vocabulary, letter recognition, handwriting, fine motor practice, and art all centered around one seasonal theme without needing a mountain of supplies.
More Fall Printables for Preschool and Kindergarten
If your children or students enjoy these scarecrow worksheets, you can continue your fall theme with some of my other seasonal printables.
Try pairing them with pumpkin worksheets, sunflower worksheets, acorn worksheets, apple activities, squirrel worksheets, owl worksheets, fox worksheets, or my larger fall preschool activity pack.
Mixing several fall themes throughout September, October, and November gives children familiar seasonal imagery while allowing you to change the skills and activities you’re practicing.
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Enjoy These Free Printable Scarecrow Worksheets This Fall
I created these free printable scarecrow worksheets to give parents and teachers an easy way to bring a little seasonal fun into early learning.
With alphabet practice, handwriting, vocabulary, tracing, cutting, coloring, and letter recognition all included, you can use the pages individually or combine them with a scarecrow picture book and craft for a complete fall-themed learning activity.
Print the pages you need, grab a few crayons, and let your little scarecrows get to work.
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