Trace the shapes · Easy
6 problems · Plain
Shapes worksheets for Kindergarten
Kindergarteners name shapes, trace them and begin to describe them. These sheets offer tracing, matching and counting sides. Type your kid's name and each page becomes theirs.
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Ready-made sheets 9 ready-made sheets
Trace the shapes · Medium
6 problems · Dinosaurs
Trace the shapes · Hard
6 problems · Space
Count the sides · Easy
6 problems · Ocean
Count the sides · Medium
6 problems · Unicorns
Count the sides · Hard
6 problems · Cars
Match the shapes · Easy
6 problems · Jungle
Match the shapes · Medium
6 problems · Plain
Match the shapes · Hard
6 problems · Dinosaurs
Parent guide
Kindergarten is where shapes become more than names. Kids learn to tell a square from a rectangle, to say how many sides and corners a shape has, and to draw shapes with care. Many kids still call a diamond a square tilted over, which is a lovely way to look at it.
Start with Trace the shapes if your kid is still building pencil control. There is no answer key, since the sheet is just practice. Move to Match the shapes when they read shape names or are close to it. The answer key shows each pairing.
Count the sides is the sheet that gets kids thinking. They write how many sides each shape has. Triangles and squares are easy. Pentagon and hexagon at the harder levels need a slow finger tracing each edge. Counting twice is a good habit.
Mix the sheets across the week rather than doing one type for long. If your kid can name and count the sides of all four basic shapes, move on to oval, star, heart and diamond, and then pentagon and hexagon.