Seasons Worksheets for Kids

Seasons worksheets take children from naming the four seasons to explaining why they happen. The younger pages use one tree drawn in spring, summer, fall and winter and a cut-and-glue picture sort; the older page shows Earth’s tilted axis and asks the questions that clear up the most common mix-up about seasons. All the pictures are drawn for this set, and the pages with right answers have keys. All the seasons worksheets are free to print.

Quick answer: There are four seasons: spring, summer, fall (autumn) and winter. They happen because Earth’s axis is tilted about 23.5 degrees, so each half of the planet gets more direct sunlight at a different time of year, not because Earth is closer to the Sun. This page has 6 free seasons worksheets (PDF) with answer keys.

Seasons worksheets: ready-to-print samples

A few of the PDFs on this page. The full list is under Ready-to-print worksheets, and the maker above prints any page in color or black and white.

The 4 seasons for kids at a glance

The seasons are opposite on the two halves of the world. These are the meteorological seasons (whole months), which weather services use; the astronomical seasons start around the equinoxes and solstices, a few weeks later.

What is on the season sort

Each picture was chosen because it clearly belongs to one season in most of North America and Europe, so the sort has one right answer per card:

If you live where it never snows, talk about which pictures fit your own seasons first. That conversation is the real lesson.

Seasons worksheets for kindergarten

For kindergarten, start with pictures, not words. Look at the four seasons poster together and talk about what the tree is doing, then do the season sort, which needs only scissors and glue. Once children can copy a word, the label the seasons page adds a word bank. Keep the why page for grades 3 to 5.

Why do we have seasons?

Earth’s axis is tilted about 23.5 degrees, and it keeps pointing the same way as Earth travels around the Sun. When the Northern Hemisphere leans toward the Sun, sunlight hits it more directly and the days are longer, so it is summer there and winter in the Southern Hemisphere. Six months later the situation is reversed. A common mistake is to think summer comes when Earth is closest to the Sun; in fact Earth is closest in early January, during northern winter (NASA Space Place). The why page asks children to check exactly this.

Science standards

Standards are from the Next Generation Science Standards.

For spring showers, print the rainbow coloring pages.

To see the seasons change for real, take a nature scavenger hunt outside each season, or try the fall scavenger hunt in autumn.

Use one of the seasons worksheets at the start of each new season, so your child can see the changes happen outside.

More science printables

• Types of clouds worksheets, including how clouds change with the weather.
• Weather worksheets to record each season’s weather.
• Fall worksheets for autumn activities.

Last updated: October 2026