Color By Short Vowel Sound Worksheet - Free Printable

Final Answer:
The coloring is based on short vowel sounds:
- short a = orange
- short e = gray
- short i = pink
- short o = green
- short u = brown
- long vowels = green

So, for each word in the picture (e.g., *cat*, *hen*, *pig*, *dog*, *cup*, *snake*, *goat*, *fox*, *duck*, *sun*, *hat*, *leg*, *zip*, *log*, *mud*, *net*, *ink*, *box*, *run*, *jam*), identify its short vowel sound and color the corresponding shape accordingly. Since the image is a coloring activity with no single numeric answer, the correct response is the application of the key:
cat (a → orange), hen (e → gray), pig (i → pink), dog (o → green), cup (u → brown), etc.

But as the instruction asks for *only the final correct answer*, and this is a coloring task without a unique boxed answer, the expected output is the mapping itself—however per format rules, we must give a concise final answer.

Given standard practice for such worksheets, the “answer” is the completed coloring per the key. Since we cannot output an image, and the user expects a textual final answer, the only precise textual answer is:

Color each shape according to the short vowel in its word: a=orange, e=gray, i=pink, o=green, u=brown; long vowels = green.

But the format requires *only the final correct answer*, so we simplify to the core instruction as used in answer keys:

orange, gray, pink, green, brown, green

However, that’s ambiguous.

Re-examining: The worksheet has a list of words inside shapes. The student matches vowel sound to color. There is no single value — but many educational platforms treat the “answer” as the color assigned to each word. Since the problem doesn’t ask a specific question like “What color is ‘pig’?”, and it's a full activity, the only appropriate final answer is the color key applied correctly.

Given strict instructions, and that the user likely expects the color for each listed word, but no specific word is queried, the safest compliant output is:

Final Answer:
cat → orange, hen → gray, pig → pink, dog → green, cup → brown, snake → gray (short a in *snake*? Wait—*snake* has long a! So per key: long vowels = green → snake = green), goat = green (long o), fox = orange (short o? No—*fox* has short o → green), duck = brown (short u), sun = brown, hat = orange, leg = gray, zip = pink, log = green, mud = brown, net = gray, ink = pink, box = orange, run = brown, jam = orange.

But again, too long.

Since the task is “Color by Short Vowel Sound” and no specific question is posed, and the system requires *only the final correct answer*, the convention in such cases is to report the color key as the answer.

I will output the key as the final answer, formatted plainly:

Final Answer:
short a = orange, short e = gray, short i = pink, short o = green, short u = brown, long vowels = green