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    Home » Blog View » Weather

    Published: Jul 6, 2022 · Modified: Jul 27, 2022 by Julie

    Printable Weather Flashcards for Kids

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    Young children are fascinated with the weather. Learn about different types of weather and instruments with these weather flashcards.

    These free printable weather flashcards are perfect when exploring different weather events with your young children!

    Set of 20 cards featuring common weather events and weather tools. Each card includes a vocabulary term along with a large real life photograph.

    PDF downloadable set you can print off use right away with your kids.

    set of 20 printable weather themed flashcards with real life photographs of weather events and tools overlapping on a wooden background. Blue circle bottom right with text overlay.

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    Are you looking for some hands-on manipulatives for a weather unit study? These printable flashcards are large enough for young children to hold and move around.

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    You can access a pdf version of the weather flashcards set at the bottom of this post.

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    Weather Flashcards

    Set of 20 cards with weather conditions and weather tools. Eight cards with common weather events along with eight for extreme weather. Then four cards with weather instruments.

    Common Weather Events

    CloudsSunny
    FogRain
    SnowRainbow
    Storm CloudsWind

    Extreme Weather

    BlizzardDrought
    HurricaneTornado
    FloodHail
    LightningFreezing Rain

    Weather Tools

    AnemometerBarometer
    ThermometerWind Vane

    Depending on your region and climate, your kids may have witnessed many of these weather events.

    Common conditions including rain, sunny, clouds can be observed in most locations. While extreme weather events including hurricanes, flooding, and tornado may not be observed where you live.

    printable weather flashcards with weather tools including thermometer, barometer, wind vane, and anemometer vocab word written on each card below an image. Printable on a wooden background

    You can also talk about the different tools that meteorologists use to observe the weather including a thermometer and anemometer.

    Age Range

    • Toddler
    • Preschooler
    • Kindergartner
    • Elementary
    • Upper Elementary

    While these cards are designed for young children, you can use these for many years with your kids.

    8 printable weather flashcards with real life photographs of clouds, lightning, storm clouds, wind, rainbow, rain, snow, and sunny overlapping on a wooden background

    Sorting and classification activities are great for kids in preschool through upper elementary. If learning about weather with older kids, they can even use these cards for sorting activities.

    For elementary aged children, they can learn science specific vocabulary terms while using this set of flashcards.

    Skills to Practice

    • Vocabulary
    • Connections to real life events
    • Observations
    • Classification and Sorting

    Flashcards are wonderful visuals for kids in preschool, kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade. Kids love visuals when learning about topics in science.

    While you can witness many of these weather events in real life, having a set of cards allows your kids to see all of the events at one time.

    cut out weather flashcards grouped by similar characteristics: clouds and sun, then lightning storm cloud, and wind, then rainbow and rain cards. Printable cards placed in three groups on a wooden background

    In the image above, three groups were made using the cards. Events that usually occur together were placed in the same group.

    • Rain and a Rainbow
    • Wind, Storm Cloud, and Lightning
    • Sunny with Clouds

    As you use the cards you can discuss different weather conditions together. A great introductory activity to to have your kids identify the weather events that they have see first hand.

    Sorting activities are great conversation starters. After you sort, you can then talk about climate and weather at different locations! Kids and even then go on to learn about why weather events happen at some locations, but not others.

    Even young children can begin to learn and explore the water cycle. As you talk about different form of precipitation together, they naturally will begin to question where it comes from.

    Supplies

    • Color printer
    • Plain printer paper or cardstock
    • Laminator (optional)
    • Elastic or bag for storage

    When printing off flashcards, I highly recommend using heavy weight paper such as cardstock instead of plain printer paper.

    Each card is outlined in light gray and has rounded edges. You can use scissors or a paper cutter to cut out the cards.

    four printed out weather flashcards on a piece of paper with images for drought, blizzard, freezing rain, and flood. Each card is outlined in gray and has an photograph and vocab word written in bold. Printable on a wooden background

    Not only does heavy weight paper make these cards more durable, they stand up better if displaying them standing up.

    Laminating these flashcards is another great option. Personally, I print off flashcards onto cardstock then laminate each card.

    Helpful Hint: cut out each card first, then run them through the laminator. This lets the entire card be sealed with plastic.

    Plus, protecting the set by laminating the individual cards will allow you to use the same set of years to come.

    Additional Activities

    Weather Bingo

    Games are a fun way for kids to learn about different topics. This free weather bingo game features many of the same weather events and tools.

    Bright and colorful images on each bingo card. A great option for young children in preschool through elementary. Each bingo card has nine images for kids to cross off.

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    Learn how clouds form in this hands-on cloud activity for kids. Very easy to do with either a classroom or your own kids at home. You can get access to a free worksheet to use with your kids while conducting the experiment within the post.

    Books about Weather

    As a mom and teacher, I am a huge fan of using books to explore topics in science. Children's books about weather are wonderful learning resources for kids.

    Weather released in 2020 is a great book for children. Written for ages 8-12, kids of all ages (even young kids) will love this book.

    Terms of Use

    These printable flashcards were created by Nature Inspired Learning and are for personal use only for your home, classroom, or public library. All of these weather flashcards are for non-commercial use. See full disclosure.

    Free Printable Weather Flashcards

    • PDF downloadable file means no physical copy will be sent to you
    • Large images with a vocabulary word written in bold
    set of 20 printable weather themed flashcards with real life photographs of weather events and tools overlapping on a wooden background. Blue circle bottom right with text overlay.

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    Comments

    1. Megan says

      July 07, 2022 at 1:54 pm

      Kids will love this. Plus, the printable looks great! Thank you for sharing 🙂

      Reply
    2. Julie says

      July 08, 2022 at 2:46 pm

      I'm a huge flash card fan. My toddler likes to think these are games and will play with them for hours, especially if I laminate them (which I typically do!)

      Thanks so much for these smart cards for my kiddos!

      Reply
    3. rayees says

      July 27, 2022 at 10:57 am

      Dear Author,
      could you plz help me find weather flashcards for which i don't see download link
      look forward to get prompt response from you on this.

      Reply
      • Julie says

        July 27, 2022 at 8:57 pm

        Dear Rayees,

        I sincerely apologize, I accidentally linked the parts of a pumpkin printables instead of the sign up for the weather flashcards. I updated the email form and it is now the correct one. Thank you for letting me know there was an issue!

        Reply

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