Colouring NestShape Patterns: What Comes Next?
- Ages 4–6
- Easy
- 2 pages
- Worksheet
- Answer key
- PDF: Letter & A4
- Updated
Tip: download the PDF for Letter or A4 paper, print it at 100% and use a pencil or crayon. Tap "Show solution" to check your answer, or print it as an answer key.
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Seven rows of shapes that repeat, from an easy AB pattern (circle, square, circle, square) to ABB, ABC and AABB patterns. Children say each row out loud, find the part that repeats, and draw the shape that comes next in the empty box. Saying the pattern as a chant (“star, star, heart”) makes the rule easy to hear. Page 2 shows every answer, and the shapes can be colored to make the pattern stand out.
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Tips for this shapes worksheet
- Say each pattern out loud as a chant.
- Put a finger under the part that repeats.
- Then make your own pattern with shape cards or blocks.
Page 2 of the PDF is the answer key. For first shapes, the shape flash cards have the name and sides on the back. When this sheet feels easy, move on to the sides and corners worksheet and the 3D shapes coloring page. 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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