Turtle’s Recycling Mission Worksheet for Age 4
Six clean items, three bins — sort paper, plastic and metal like a recycling hero.
The full sheet, exactly as it prints.
This page is the worksheet’s home: see the whole sheet, download it or print it, and pass it on. Solving on screen happens in the class’s own activities on the Learning Path — this page is for the table, the kitchen and the fridge door.

What your child practices.
Recycling is material science with a civic bonus: paper and cardboard to PAPER, bottles to PLASTIC, cans to METAL. Sorting by material is the same skill the sorting plant uses — your child is doing real industrial chemistry.
- Sorting by material
- Recycling rules
- Material vocabulary
- Planet-care habits
On the sheet: Match each clean item to its recycling bin!
The class behind it.
This worksheet belongs to Science, Nature & Discovery (Class 31) on the Age 4 learning path, and the whole science collection lives at /worksheets/science/. One finished sheet is a full session — download it, print it, and let the fridge door be the gallery.
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