Support your students in using positional language with our hands-on Puppy Prepositions Cut & Paste activity! This engaging worksheet encourages students to practise identifying and applying prepositions by arranging puppy-themed images and completing simple sentence structures. Designed to complement our broader Puppy Prepositions resource collection, this worksheet provides a focused, sentence-level activity that helps consolidate understanding of location words.

Students begin by cutting out the four themed images—a puppy, dog bowl, kennel and bone. They then glue the pictures onto the page in a way that reflects their understanding of spatial relationships. Using the sentence stem provided, students complete a written sentence that describes where the puppy is in relation to the other objects. This dual approach of visual placement and written response reinforces key prepositional concepts like ‘under’, ‘beside’, ‘in front of’ and ‘behind’ in a meaningful context.

Puppy Prepositions Cut & Paste includes two differentiated worksheets. The first supports early writers with a scaffolded sentence starter, while the second offers more open-ended writing lines for students ready to create their own descriptive sentences. This flexibility makes the resource ideal for Foundation and early Year 1 classrooms, as well as for use in small group intervention or EAL support.

Key Learning Outcomes:

• ✅ Recognise and apply common prepositions in sentence structures
• ✅ Use visual cues to demonstrate understanding of spatial relationships
• ✅ Develop fine motor skills through cutting and gluing tasks
• ✅ Strengthen oral and written language connected to location and direction
• ✅ Engage in meaningful grammar practise through contextualised learning

What’s Included:

• Two differentiated cut-and-paste worksheets
• Four blackline positional images per page (puppy, dog bowl, kennel and bone)
• Sentence starters and open-ended writing lines
• Visual layout designed to support early learners

Materials Needed:

• Printed worksheets (one per student)
• Scissors and glue sticks
• Pencils or coloured markers
• Optional: laminated word banks or positional language posters for reference

How to Use:

1. Introduce or review positional words with students using visuals or real-life objects.
2. Distribute the worksheet and guide students through cutting out each image.
3. Students glue the puppy in a chosen position relative to another object on the page.
4. They complete the sentence to describe the puppy’s position using appropriate prepositions.
5. Encourage students to read their sentence aloud to a partner or teacher.

Ideas for Classroom Use:

• 💡 Use during literacy centres as a focused grammar task
• 💡 Include in small group support sessions for EAL or early writers
• 💡 Pair with physical props (toy dog and blocks) to model placement before completing the sheet
• 💡 Follow up with student-led drawing or sentence writing tasks using different objects
• 💡 Use completed pages as part of a positional language display or writing wall

Top Teacher Tips:

• 💛 Pre-cut images for younger students or those needing fine motor support
• 💛 Reinforce key vocabulary using visual cues or an anchor chart
• 💛 Extend by asking students to write a second sentence using a different object
• 💛 Print on coloured paper or cardstock to create more engaging materials

Puppy Prepositions Cut & Paste is a fun and flexible way to help students practise prepositions through visual storytelling and sentence construction—perfect for building foundational grammar and spatial vocabulary in the early years.