KS1 Shapes Worksheets (Ages 5–7)

What KS1 shapes worksheets cover

Five-year-olds move into three dimensions. Alongside the flat shapes, worksheets introduce cube, sphere, cone and cylinder, ask which object matches each one, and press the key idea that a cube has square faces without being a square. Sorting flat from solid, composing two triangles into a square, and finding shapes in a photo of a kitchen are all fair tasks. Precise words such as "vertex" and "edge" can wait; "corner" and "side" do the job.

• Match cube, sphere, cone and cylinder to a dice, ball, hat and can
• Sort pictures into flat shapes and solid shapes
• Build a square or rectangle from two or more triangles
• Name the shape of a clock, a door and a slice of pizza
• Say how a square and a cube are alike and different

How to use these worksheets at home or in class

Because this stage spans two years, match the sheet to what the classroom is doing rather than to age alone: decoding and number bonds for a Year 1 child, comprehension and times tables for a Year 2 child, in sessions of fifteen to twenty minutes.

Start with the sheet that matches what your child can already do, then move one step up. Keep finished sheets in a folder: KS1 teachers often ask for evidence of practice, and children like seeing their own progress.

Is your child ready for KS1 shapes work?

A child ready for the later half of this stage reads a short passage with reasonable fluency, writes several connected sentences, adds and subtracts within twenty and recalls the 2, 5 and 10 times tables with growing confidence.

• Draw a closed shape with exactly five corners
• Divide a circle and a rectangle into halves and quarters
• Name pentagon, hexagon and rhombus from a mixed set

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