Build Vocabulary With Educational Colouring Sheets!

It’s time to bust out those crayons and help your students develop their vocabulary skills with brand-new printable word study worksheets from Teach Starter! This year, we’re excited to help you grow your readers, writers, and speakers with new and engaging vocabulary activities surrounding compound words.

Find and Colour the Compound Words – Worksheet Pack

This printable compound word activity pack is the perfect way to give your students time to be creative while learning to combine words. Using a variety of fun colouring-based compound word printables, your students will have fun and grow their vocabulary banks by learning new examples of compound words, including compound nouns. The following worksheets are included in your download:

• Compound Word Maze – Students will help an ant find its way through the compound word maze by colouring the compound words.
• Calling All Compound Words Worksheet – Students will identify the compound words being texted on each smartphone and colour them according to a key.
• Cheesy Compound Word Maze – Students will colour a path through the cheese maze to reunite two friends.
• Compound Word Colour By Code Mandala – Students will colour the mandala using the compound/non-compound word colour key.

Easily Download & Print Your Compound Word Printables!

Use the dropdown icon on the Download button to choose between the PDF or Google Slides version of this resource. 

This resource was created by Lauren Borst, a teacher and Teach Starter Collaborator.

Have Fun Teaching Compound Words!

Don’t stop there! We have even more ways to make teaching compound words more fun! Make sure you check out these printable compound word activities before you go.

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Compound Words - Word Mats

Introduce your students to a variety of new compound nouns with a pack of levelled Compound Word Mats.

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Compound Words With Pictures - Word Wall

Combine words to make compound words and boost vocabulary skills with a printable combining words word wall.s.

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Growing Compound Words Interactive Activity

Build compound words with an interactive compound word game.