Colouring NestName the 3D Shapes Worksheet
- Ages 5–7
- Easy
- 2 pages
- Worksheet
- Answer key
- PDF: Letter & A4
- Updated
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Six solid shapes in mixed order, each with a box for its name, and a word bank with the answers: cube, sphere, cone, cylinder, pyramid and rectangular prism. Children look for the clues: a sphere is round all over, a cylinder has two flat circles, a cone has one circle and a point, and a pyramid has triangle sides that meet at the top. Page 2 is the answer key. Hold up a ball, a can or a box to compare.
Also try: 2D and 3D Shapes Worksheet · Faces, Edges and Vertices Worksheet · Equal Parts Worksheet
Tips for this shapes worksheet
- Hold up a real ball, can or box next to each picture.
- Look for flat faces and points: they tell the shapes apart.
- Cross each word off the word bank as you use it.
Page 2 of the PDF is the answer key. Cut-out shape templates make good counters for sorting and patterns. When this sheet feels easy, move on to the faces, edges and vertices worksheet, the fraction worksheets (equal parts of shapes) and tangram puzzles. See all shapes worksheets.
For teachers and parents
- What it practises
- Naming 2D shapes and finding them in real life, sides, corners, patterns and sorting, 3D shapes: faces, edges and vertices
- How to use it
- Keep real things on the table: a ball, a box, a can, a party hat. Turn the flat shapes around so children learn that a turned triangle is still a triangle. Answers on page 2.
- Time
- About 10–15 minutes
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Printing tips
- Hold up real things (a ball, a box, a can) next to the 3D sheets.
- Turn a shape around: a triangle upside down is still a triangle.
- Mark with page 2, then redo the wrong ones the next day.
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