Color the 3D Shapes Worksheet for Kids

How to use this worksheet

Start by looking at the color key together and naming each shape and its assigned color out loud, which helps your child connect the shape's name to what they're about to do. Go shape by shape, asking your child to first identify the shape by name before picking up the matching crayon and coloring it in. Encourage them to color within the shape's outline as neatly as they can, and pause after each shape to review its name once more before moving to the next one.

Materials needed

• Crayons or colored pencils
• Pencil

Extension activities

• 1Go on a shape hunt around the house for real cubes, spheres, and pyramids — a die, a ball, a party hat.
• 2Build the five shapes out of playdough or modeling clay, naming each one as you make it.
• 3Stack blocks of different 3D shapes and talk about which ones roll and which ones stack.
• 4Look at food items — an orange is a sphere, a cereal box is a cuboid — and name their shapes together.