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10Free Family Members Worksheets for Kindergarten

Ten free family members worksheets that take a kindergartener from drawing a line between grandpa and his picture all the way to writing about their own family with nothing to copy from. Arranged in the order I would actually hand them out, with a note on each about who it is really for.

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The full list

  1. Family Members Picture and Word Matching Worksheet
  2. Family Members Worksheet: Circle the Correct Word
  3. Family Members Color by Number Worksheet for Kindergarten
  4. Family Members Cut and Paste Sorting Worksheet
  5. How Many People? Family Members Counting Worksheet
  6. People I Love: Family Members Word Tracing Worksheet
  7. Say Hello: My Family Write and Draw Worksheet
  8. Our Family Tree: Label the Family Members Worksheet
  9. Tell Me Who: Family Members Sentence Writing Worksheet
  10. All About My Family Worksheet: Draw and Write
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Family Members Picture and Word Matching Worksheet

Vocabulary · 10 minutes · Kindergarten
Family Members Picture and Word Matching Worksheet worksheet preview

Six round faces on one side, six words on the other: dad, mom, grandma, sister, grandpa and brother. Draw a line from each face to the word that fits.

The words are printed in capitals, so it doubles as a look at the family words in a different form from the lowercase on the rest of the set.

Why it opens the set Nothing here asks for writing. A child who cannot yet form letters can still show they know which word is which.
02

Family Members Worksheet: Circle the Correct Word

Vocabulary · 10 minutes · Kindergarten
Family Members Worksheet: Circle the Correct Word worksheet preview

Six color portraits, each with three family words beside it. Circle the one that names the person.

The same words come back in different rows, so a child cannot circle by position. Every row has to be read, but three choices and a clear picture keep it well within reach.

Use it when Sheet 01 went smoothly and you want to check the words are being read rather than matched by shape.
03

Family Members Color by Number Worksheet for Kindergarten

Vocabulary · 20 minutes · Kindergarten
Family Members Color by Number Worksheet for Kindergarten worksheet preview

Grandma, dad, mom and brother in big outlines, with numbers on their clothes and a key that pairs 1 to 4 with red, blue, yellow and green.

The key is written as words, not swatches, so the color words get read before any coloring happens. The name labels under each person give the family words another pass.

Why it works It feels like a break, which makes it a good middle page. The reading is still there, just less obvious.
04

Family Members Cut and Paste Sorting Worksheet

Sorting · 20 minutes · Kindergarten
Family Members Cut and Paste Sorting Worksheet worksheet preview

Six picture cards to cut out and glue under Grown-Ups or Kids: grandma, baby, dad, sister, mom and brother.

Sorting asks what each word means, not just what it looks like, so a child has to think about who is a grown-up and who is not.

Worth talking through The baby card. Plenty of five-year-olds will insist a baby is not a kid, and the conversation that follows is the best part of the page.
05

How Many People? Family Members Counting Worksheet

Counting · 10 minutes · Kindergarten
How Many People? Family Members Counting Worksheet worksheet preview

Six family pictures to count, with a box in each for the number. The families grow from a dad and his son to seven people across three generations.

The children stand in front of the grown-ups in the bigger families, so a child has to keep track of who has been counted rather than sweeping along a row.

Use it when You want the family theme to carry into math time. It is the one counting page in the set.
06

People I Love: Family Members Word Tracing Worksheet

Handwriting · 15 minutes · Kindergarten
People I Love: Family Members Word Tracing Worksheet worksheet preview

Six portraits with a family word to trace and a line to write it again: mom, dad, baby, sister, brother and grandma.

This is where the set turns from reading family words to writing them. The dotted letters handle the spelling, so all the effort goes into forming the letters.

Don't skip The instruction to say who each person is first. Saying the word aloud before tracing ties the sound to the spelling.
07

Say Hello: My Family Write and Draw Worksheet

Writing · 15 minutes · Kindergarten
Say Hello: My Family Write and Draw Worksheet worksheet preview

Four color portraits, each with the sentence starter Here is my, a word bank of exactly four words, and a box at the bottom to draw yourself.

Four words is small enough to hold in mind, which makes it a gentle first page for copying a word into a sentence.

Why it works The draw yourself box puts the child into the family they just introduced, and it is the part they will want to show you.
08

Our Family Tree: Label the Family Members Worksheet

Vocabulary · 15 minutes · Kindergarten
Our Family Tree: Label the Family Members Worksheet worksheet preview

A leafy family tree with grandpa and grandma at the top, mom and dad in the middle and a brother and sister below, plus a six-word bank to label them.

The layout shows the generations stacked in order, so a child gets a first feel for what a family tree is while practicing the words.

Why it works Six words for six people. A child who stalls near the end can work out the last few from what is left over.
09

Tell Me Who: Family Members Sentence Writing Worksheet

Writing · 15 minutes · Kindergarten
Tell Me Who: Family Members Sentence Writing Worksheet worksheet preview

Six portraits, each with a sentence to finish: He is my, or She is my. The word box holds mom, dad, sister, brother, grandma and grandpa.

Writing a whole sentence about a person is a step past labeling, and the he or she at the start is a clue about which words can fit.

Worth pointing out The he and she. It is a first brush with pronouns before anyone has named them.
10

All About My Family Worksheet: Draw and Write

Writing · 20 minutes · Kindergarten
All About My Family Worksheet: Draw and Write worksheet preview

No word bank and no ready-made family. A child writes who is in their family, what they like to do together and how their family makes them feel, then draws them.

Because the child supplies the family, it fits every kind of family in a classroom, and a mix of drawing and writing is plenty at this age.

Why it ends the set Everything the earlier sheets practiced gets used here with the supports taken away.

One more thing.

If your kids finish a unit and you're not sure what to do next, my honest advice: don't move on yet. Spend a week mixing these in as warm-ups. Fluency isn't a unit, it's a habit, and the sheet that builds it is usually the one they ask to do again.

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