Cloud Identification Cards

Cloud Identification Cards
These cards are designed to help your young child practice
matching and identifying clouds. Print the sheets, cut and
laminate to make the cards more sturdy. The cards can be used
as a memory, matching game or field guide cards.
For older children:
You can use the picture cards to practice identifying cloud
formations in the sky. Word cards are provided for each type
of cloud. Help your children sound out the words and find the
word that matches the picture card.
These cards can also be used to make two a field guide card
sets to use outdoors when trying to identify clouds. Simply glue
image of cloud to card stock and glue name of cloud on back.
Laminate and use a hole punch to make a hole and loop
through a binder ring.
License to use:
You may use these cards for your own personal use, as a
teacher or parent. They are not to be included on another
website for worksheets. They are not to be used for profit, in a
establishment that makes, or intends to make money.
Created by Sandra @ Monkey See Monkey Do
Monkey Do Creations
Created by Sandra @ Monkey See Monkey Do
Created by Sandra @ Monkey See Monkey Do
Cumulus cloud
Cirrus cloud
Stratus cloud
Cirrocumulus cloud
Cirrostratus cloud
Cumulus clouds are shaped
puffy. They may look like
popcorn and have flat
bottoms. They are low in
the sky.
Cirrus clouds are white and
feathery. They are the
highest clouds in the sky.
Stratus clouds are low and
look like a wide gray
blanket. They bring drizzle
or snow.
Cirrocumulus clouds are
small and look like puffy
sheep. They are high in the
sky.
Cirrostratus clouds are high
in the sky. They look like thin
white sheets and you can
see the sun and moon
through them.
Altostratus cloud
Altocumulus cloud
Nimbostratus cloud
Stratocumulus
cloud
Cumulonimbus
cloud
Altostratus clouds look like
sheets of gray or blue. They
are in the middle of the sky.
They bring rain or snow.
Altocumulus clouds look like
puffy clouds that are gray
or whitish. They are in the
middle of the sky and bring
drizzle or snow flurries.
Nimbostratus clouds are
low down in the sky. They
are very heavy and dark.
They bring rain or snow fall.
Stratocumulus clouds are
black or blue and look like
rolls of puffy clouds. They
are seen during the winter.
Cumulonimbus clouds look
like dark tall mountains
during a thunderstorm or
intense weather. They can
bring thunder and
lightening with rain.