3D Shapes Worksheet: Explore Faces, Vertices, and Edges!
This worksheet pushes children ages 4-6 beyond simply naming 3D shapes into analyzing their structural properties — counting faces, vertices, and edges — while also connecting those properties to how each shape moves (rolling, sliding, or stacking). Understanding that a shape's number of flat surfaces and corners directly determines its physical behavior is an early but genuine geometric reasoning skill.
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Month 3: Learning & Development | Ages 6-7
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About this worksheet
- Topic:
- 3D Shapes
- Skill:
- 3D Shapes: Identify 3D shapes and their properties - faces, vertices, edges.
- Pack:
- Page 26 of 29 in Month 3: Learning & Development | Ages 6-7.
How to use this worksheet
Look at the first 3D shape together and have your child count and point to each flat face, each corner (vertex), and each edge where two faces meet. Help them write the correct numbers for faces, vertices, and edges in the blanks provided. Then ask your child to predict and record whether that shape can roll, slide, or stack based on its shape. Repeat this process for each 3D shape on the page.
Materials needed
- Pencil
- Crayons
Extension activities
- 1Build 3D shapes using playdough balls and toothpicks, physically counting the vertices and edges as you go.
- 2Go on a 3D shape hunt around the house, finding real objects and counting their faces together.
- 3Stack a variety of household boxes and cans to test which ones balance and which ones roll away.
- 4Make a simple chart comparing two shapes side by side, like a cube and a cylinder, listing their properties.
- 5Use marshmallows and toothpicks to build shape skeletons, counting vertices as marshmallow joints and edges as toothpick connections.
Written by
Hemsweta Jain · Teacher Cheena
MBA and Early Childhood Educator, teaching since 2014 · Founder of RaisoActive, Mumbai
Every RaisoActive worksheet is designed and checked by the founder before publishing.
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