Summer Shadows Matching Worksheet for Preschoolers
This worksheet has children ages 3-5 match pictures of summer activities, like swimming or building a sandcastle, to their correct shadow silhouettes, building visual discrimination through shape recognition rather than color or detail. Because these shadows represent action scenes rather than single objects, children must recognize more complex outlines, including body positions and poses, which is a step up from matching simpler object shadows. This adds a layer of visual reasoning about how shapes and motion relate.
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Curriculum
- Cognitive - Attention > Observation Skills
How to use this worksheet
Look at the summer activity pictures on the left side of the page with your child and talk about what each one shows, such as a child swimming or flying a kite. Then look at the shadows on the right side and help your child compare the outline and pose of each shadow to the activity pictures. Once a match is found, have them draw a line connecting the picture to its shadow, repeating for each pair on the page.
Materials needed
- Pencil
- Crayons
Extension activities
- 1Have the child color the pictures after matching to reinforce what each summer activity looks like.
- 2Ask the child to describe what each activity is and act it out physically, like pretending to swim or fly a kite.
- 3Make hand or body shadows on a sunny wall and guess what shape or pose each one is making.
- 4Talk about which summer activity from the worksheet is your child's favorite and why.
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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