Free Scarecrow Printables: 6 Fall Worksheets for K & 1st Grade

These free Scarecrow Field printables bring a farm-fresh feel to fall lessons. The six worksheets cover counting, phonics, handwriting, patterns, coloring, and writing, built around a friendly scarecrow watching over a cornfield, with crows, a straw hat, a hay bale, and a field mouse.

The set is sized for kindergarten and first grade, and preschoolers can join in for counting and coloring. Each worksheet is one page, so it slots into a fall unit or a single afternoon.

Free for your family, co-op, or classroom. Prints on regular letter paper. Every page is checked for mistakes before we post it.

What's in the scarecrow printables

1. Counting crows

Five rows of the same black crow, three to six per row, in mixed order. Kids count each row and write the number in the box, touching each bird as they go.

Make it easier: Line up small buttons or crackers on top of the picture as your child counts each row.
Make it harder: Ask which row has the fewest crows, or how many are in the first two rows together.

2. Word match

Five pictures, a crow, a hat, a mouse, a sun, and a hay bale, sit on the left, with the same five words listed in a different order on the right. Kids draw a line from each picture to its matching word.

Make it easier: Read all five words aloud together before your child starts drawing lines.
Make it harder: Cover the pictures and have your child read the words alone first.

3. Tracing

The words crow, hat, hay, sun, and mouse, each next to its picture. Kids trace the gray dotted word, then write it again on the blank line beside it.

Make it easier: Trace just the first letter of each word together before tracing the whole thing.
Make it harder: Cover the dotted word and have your child spell it out loud first, then check it.

4. Patterns: what comes next?

Four rows built from a hat, a crow, and a sun, each following its own rule: a simple back-and-forth swap, a repeat with one picture doubled, and a three-item repeat. Kids draw what comes next in the box.

Make it easier: Point to each picture and say its name out loud before guessing what comes next.
Make it harder: Have your child describe the rule in each row and invent a new pattern of their own.

5. Coloring page

A smiling scarecrow in patched overalls and a straw hat, standing in a cornfield with a crow perched on the fence on each side and a sun overhead. Thick black outlines leave plenty of open space for crayons.

Make it harder: Have your child name every object in the picture before coloring it in.

6. Draw and write

Kids draw their own scarecrow in the big box, then finish the sentence “My scarecrow’s name is ___” on the writing lines below.

Make it easier: Your child tells you the name, you write it lightly, and they trace over it.
Make it harder: Write a full sentence describing the scarecrow’s clothes, then read it back together.

What kids practice with these scarecrow worksheets

• Counting and writing numbers. Five rows of crows, three to six each, practice counting a group and writing the total.
• Phonics. The ow vowel team in crow (same long-o sound as snow), the ay team in hay, and the ou team plus silent e in mouse. Hat and sun are short, regular CVC words.
• Handwriting. Tracing dotted letters, then writing each word alone.
• Patterns. Two- and three-item repeats, an early building block for math.

A simple 5-day scarecrow plan

1. Monday: Talk about what a scarecrow is for, then do the counting page.
2. Tuesday: Say crow, hat, mouse, sun, and hay bale aloud, then match each picture to its word.
3. Wednesday: Do the tracing page and point out the ow and ay sounds.
4. Thursday: Build a pattern with real blocks, then do the patterns page.
5. Friday: Color the scarecrow scene and finish the draw-and-write page.

Using the set in preschool, kindergarten, and first grade

Preschool: Stick to counting, coloring, and the first pattern row. Let your child tell you the tracing words instead of writing them.

Kindergarten: The set works as written.

First grade: Use the “make it harder” ideas above and ask for a full sentence on the last page.

Why do farmers use scarecrows?

Farmers have used scarecrows for thousands of years. Ancient Egyptian farmers built wooden frames to guard wheat fields along the Nile, and Greek farmers carved wooden figures to watch over their grape vines. The idea is simple: birds like crows are cautious around anything shaped like a person, so a stuffed figure in a hat and old clothes makes them think twice before landing to eat the seeds underneath. Farmers still dress real scarecrows today, though many also use netting or noise to keep birds away.

Scarecrow books to read with this set

• The Little Scarecrow Boy by Margaret Wise Brown
• Scarecrow by Cynthia Rylant
• The Scarecrow’s Hat by Ken Brown
• The Scarecrow by Beth Ferry

Printing tips and answer key

• Print at full size, not “shrink to fit,” so the pictures line up with the boxes.
• Slide the counting and patterns pages into a sheet protector for reusable, dry-erase practice.

Answers: Counting, top to bottom: 3, 4, 5, 6, 2 (in mixed order). Patterns, top to bottom — Row 1: hat, crow, hat, crow, hat (next: crow). Row 2: crow, crow, hat, crow, crow (next: hat). Row 3: sun, hat, hat, sun, hat (next: hat). Row 4: hat, crow, sun, hat, crow (next: sun).

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