Tense Time! Cut and Paste the Verbs Worksheet

How to use this worksheet

Look at the three ice cream scoops together and talk about what each one represents — things that already happened, things happening now, and things that will happen later. Cut out the verb words at the bottom of the page one at a time. For each word, say it in a sentence together — 'yesterday I ___' or 'right now I ___' — to help decide which scoop it belongs on. Glue each word onto its correct scoop, then read all three completed scoops aloud once finished.

Materials needed

• Scissors
• Glue
• Pencil

Extension activities

• 1Have your child create a full sentence using one verb from each scoop — past, present, and future.
• 2Act out a simple action three ways: 'I am jumping,' 'I jumped,' and 'I will jump.'
• 3Talk through your child's actual day using all three tenses — what they did this morning, what they're doing now, what they'll do tonight.
• 4Play a quick game where you say a verb and your child has to say all three tense forms out loud.
• 5Draw three ice cream cones on paper and let your child invent their own verbs to sort onto each one.