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 DoMonkey Do Creations

Created by Sandra @ Monkey See Monkey Do

Created by Sandra @ Monkey See Monkey Do

Cumulus cloud

Cumulus clouds are shaped puffy. They may look like popcorn and have flat bottoms. They are low in the sky.

Cirrus cloud

Cirrus clouds are white and feathery. They are the highest clouds in the sky.

Stratus cloud

Stratus clouds are low and look like a wide gray blanket. They bring drizzle or snow.

Cirrocumulus cloud

Cirrocumulus clouds are small and look like puffy sheep. They are high in the sky.

Cirrostratus cloudCirrostratus clouds are high in the sky. They look like thin white sheets and you can see the sun and moon through them.

Altostratus cloud

Altostratus clouds look likesheets of gray or blue. They are in the middle of the sky. They bring rain or snow.

Altocumulus cloud

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 cloud

Nimbostratus clouds are low down in the sky. They are very heavy and dark. They bring rain or snow fall.

Stratocumulus cloud

Stratocumulus clouds are black or blue and look like rolls of puffy clouds. They are seen during the winter.

Cumulonimbus cloud

Cumulonimbus clouds look like dark tall mountains during a thunderstorm or intense weather. They can bring thunder and lightening with rain.