13Free Kindergarten Shapes Worksheets

Start with the biggest shapes on the page. Circle, oval, square, rectangle and triangle, each with a solid model and four dotted copies, drawn large enough to trace with the whole arm rather than the fingers. Name and date lines at the top make it the easiest one here to use with a class.

The same five-row format on a scalloped cloud border: circle, square, triangle, rectangle and octagon. Four of the five are the shapes a child meets first, and the octagon at the bottom is the stretch, since eight short sides is real pencil control.

Heart, star, diamond, trapezoid and arrow, in plain ruled boxes with no decorative border. This is the sheet that introduces the two shapes children rarely meet at this age, and tracing a trapezoid four times teaches it better than any definition.

The hardest tracing page of the four, with six rows instead of five: oval, heart, crescent, star, pentagon and hexagon. The star is the reason it is last, since five points mean ten changes of direction and the middle usually collapses on the first few tries.

Now put the pencil to a different use. Two columns of six, heart, triangle, hexagon, arrow, circle and square on the left and the same six scrambled on the right, joined by a line the child draws. The hexagon pair is already connected as the example.

The same idea with harder shapes: oval, crescent, diamond, rectangle, pentagon and star. Six pairs, one already drawn. A child who breezed through the first matching page will slow down on the pentagon and the crescent, which is the point.

A color key at the top assigns red to circles, blue to squares, yellow to triangles, green to stars and orange to hearts. Twenty or so shapes are then scattered below in mixed sizes and tilted at different angles, and the child sorts the whole page by eye.

The first page about what makes shapes different rather than what they look like. Six shapes, three big number boxes each, and an X marks the answer. An upside-down triangle, a circle, a tall rectangle, a hexagon, a parallelogram and a pentagon.

Six shapes, each above three numbers, and the right one gets colored in: pentagon, oval, right triangle, diamond, trapezoid and hexagon. Choosing from three rather than writing a numeral keeps the focus on counting.

Eight shapes in a four-row grid with an owl and a ruler in the corner, going further than any other page here: triangle, rectangle, octagon, oval, square, heptagon, hexagon and pentagon, each with three circled numbers to choose from.

The same skill with the choices taken away. Eight shapes, a blank line beside each, and the child writes the numeral: triangle, square, pentagon, hexagon, rectangle, an inverted triangle, then a pentagon and hexagon again.

Six cartoon shapes with arms and sneakers, an empty box under each, and a strip of word cards to cut from the bottom: circle, star, diamond, triangle, heart and square. Scissors, glue, and the first page here that involves reading.

The finish line, and the hardest vocabulary in the set. Pentagon, star, crescent, octagon, heart and diamond, with matching word cards to cut and paste. Longer words for shapes a child may not yet be able to say out loud.