Shapes Worksheets and Flashcards

By recognizing and drawing shapes, your child’s verbal and written communication will improve as they are able to describe things more accurately, for example the ’round, orange ball’ or the ‘big, square house’.

Matching shapes to their name

Use these kindergarten shapes worksheets to help reinforce your shape lessons with your child. The worksheets range from very basic shapes right through to more advanced polygons.

Matching shapes to objects

In the following shapes worksheets, your child can match shapes to everyday objects. Use these preschooler worksheets as an introduction to matching your child’s knowledge of shapes to objects in the real world.

Shapes Chart

You can use a one of our shapes charts to help your child learn shapes.

Advanced Shapes Chart – Contains 16 shapes from the basic shapes through to some complex shapes such as trapezoids and parallelograms.

Tracing Shapes Worksheets

Reinforce your child’s shapes lesson and help improve their coordination by using this worksheet on tracing shapes.

Once your child can recognize shapes in isolation, you can offer them opportunities to identify shapes among other shapes, such as in the shapes worksheets below.

Shape Flashcards

Flashcards are another great tool to use in conjunction with shapes worksheets. Read more about Shapes Flashcards.>>

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