5 Fantastic Activities to Teach Chicken Life Cycle - Free Printable

Let’s look at the cards and figure out what they’re showing.

We have two sets of cards:

Top set:
- Left card says “CHICKEN” with a letter “P” in an orange circle.
- Middle card shows a picture of an adult chicken (with red comb, brown feathers).
- Right card says: “The chick grows into an adult chicken.”

Bottom set:
- Left card says “BABY CHICK” with a letter “N” in an orange circle.
- Middle card shows a picture of a yellow baby chick.
- Right card says: “The chick becomes dry and...” — it cuts off, but we can guess it means after hatching, the chick dries off and starts growing.

Now, notice the letters:
- Top left has “P”
- Bottom left has “N”

These might stand for stages or steps. Let’s think about life cycles.

In a life cycle, things happen in order. For a chicken:
1. Egg → 2. Baby Chick → 3. Adult Chicken

But here, the bottom card is labeled “BABY CHICK” with “N”, and top is “CHICKEN” with “P”.

Wait — maybe “P” stands for “Parent” or “Previous”? Or perhaps it’s part of a sequence like “Next” and “Previous”?

Actually, looking again — the right-side text tells us the relationship:

- The baby chick becomes dry and... (probably grows) → then becomes an adult chicken.
- So the baby chick comes BEFORE the adult chicken.

That means:
- “BABY CHICK” is earlier stage → should be first
- “CHICKEN” (adult) is later stage → should come after

But the cards are arranged with “CHICKEN” on top and “BABY CHICK” on bottom.

Maybe the “P” and “N” mean something else? Like “Present” and “Next”? Or “Past” and “Next”?

Alternatively — perhaps this is a matching game where you connect the stage to its description.

Let’s match them properly:

✔ “BABY CHICK” goes with “The chick becomes dry and...” — because that’s what happens right after hatching.

✔ “CHICKEN” (adult) goes with “The chick grows into an adult chicken.” — because that’s the final stage.

So if we were to put these in order from earliest to latest:

1. BABY CHICK → becomes dry and starts growing
2. Then grows into → ADULT CHICKEN

Therefore, the correct sequence is:

BABY CHICK → CHICKEN

And the descriptions match accordingly.

If the task is to arrange the cards in life cycle order, then:

First: BABY CHICK (with N — maybe “Next” stage is coming?)
Then: CHICKEN (with P — maybe “Previous” was the chick?)

Wait — actually, let’s flip it.

Perhaps “P” means “Previous” and “N” means “Next”? But that doesn’t fit well.

Another idea: Maybe “P” stands for “Parent” and “N” for “Newborn”? That would make sense!

- “N” = Newborn → BABY CHICK
- “P” = Parent → ADULT CHICKEN

Yes! That fits perfectly.

So:

- BABY CHICK = Newborn → labeled “N”
- CHICKEN (adult) = Parent → labeled “P”

And the descriptions confirm:

- The chick (newborn) becomes dry and... (starts life)
- Then grows into an adult chicken (parent)

So everything matches.

Final Answer:
The cards show the life cycle of a chicken. The baby chick (labeled "N" for newborn) comes first, and it grows into an adult chicken (labeled "P" for parent). The descriptions explain each stage: the chick becomes dry after hatching, and then grows into an adult.