Summer T-Shirt Match: A Fun Matching Worksheet for Kids!
This worksheet has children ages 3-5 match fruit designs to summer t-shirts featuring the same pattern, building visual discrimination as they compare details like shape and arrangement across two separate pictures. Because the match depends on recognizing a specific fruit design repeated in a different context, children practice the transferable skill of identifying that two pictures represent the same thing even when shown in a different format. Naming the fruits along the way also builds vocabulary.
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Curriculum
- Cognitive - Attention > Observation Skills
How to use this worksheet
Look at the fruit designs on one side of the page with your child and name each fruit together, noting details like color and shape. Then look at the t-shirts on the other side and help your child compare each t-shirt's design carefully to find its matching fruit. Once a match is found, have them draw a line connecting the fruit design to the correct t-shirt, repeating the process for each pair on the page.
Materials needed
- Pencil
- Crayons
Extension activities
- 1Have children draw their own summer t-shirt design featuring a favorite fruit.
- 2Cut out the fruit and t-shirt images and use them as cards for an independent matching game.
- 3Look through a closet together and talk about any patterns or fruit designs found on real clothing.
- 4Taste-test a few real fruits featured on the worksheet and talk about their color, shape, and taste.
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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