Garden Helper Picture Match

Worms make soil. Bees move pollen. Birds eat caterpillars. Match them up.

This is a step beyond knowing which creatures are helpful. It asks what each one actually does, which is more specific and more useful, and it sets up food web work in later grades.

The bee card is the one to spend time on, because pollination is genuinely hard to picture and the sheet's illustration does most of the explaining.

The page has the creature cards, the job cards, and a matching mat. It also includes an extension where children look for evidence of each job in the actual garden. Worm castings and chewed leaves are both easy to find, and finding evidence is a considerably better lesson than matching cards.