Finish the Pattern
Grade 1 · medium
Work out the rule, then draw the shapes that come next.
Noticing a pattern, sorting by a rule, putting things in order, planning a route: the reasoning underneath early math does not belong to any one subject. It also holds up best when a child is tired of arithmetic.
Grade 1 · medium
Work out the rule, then draw the shapes that come next.
Kindergarten–Grade 3
Printable pattern worksheets for Kindergarten to Grade 3. Work out the repeating rule and draw the shapes that come next, with an answer key.
See finish the patternGrade 1 · medium
Write the name of each shape on the line.
Kindergarten–Grade 3
Printable 2D shape worksheets for Kindergarten to Grade 3. Name circles, squares, triangles and more, or count sides on the harder setting.
See name the shape, or count its sidesKindergarten · medium
Name each picture. Tick the group it belongs to.
Kindergarten–Grade 2
Printable sorting worksheets for Kindergarten to Grade 2. Name each picture and tick the group it belongs to, with a matching answer key.
See which group does it belong to?Grade 2 · medium
Write each set of numbers in order, smallest first.
1. 54, 41, 12, 99
2. 34, 6, 68, 23
3. 76, 68, 58, 23
4. 14, 98, 31, 95
5. 75, 4, 88, 73
6. 77, 17, 3, 36
7. 11, 59, 30, 62
8. 80, 40, 97, 77
9. 24, 80, 82, 20
10. 55, 40, 25, 74
11. 75, 64, 48, 3
12. 25, 78, 71, 57
Kindergarten–Grade 4
Printable ordering numbers worksheets for Kindergarten to Grade 4. Write jumbled numbers smallest first, or largest first, with an answer key.
See put the numbers in orderGrade 1 · medium
Start at the dot and draw a line to the star. There is only one way through.
Kindergarten–Grade 5
Printable mazes for Kindergarten to Grade 5 in three sizes, generated fresh every time, each with exactly one solution and a printed answer key.
See find the way throughA maze is generated, not drawn by hand, which raises an obvious question: is there definitely a way through? Here, yes. The maze is built by carving a spanning tree through the grid, which guarantees exactly one path between any two cells. The solution is traced as it is generated and printed on the answer key.
Difficulty changes the grid size and the amount of branching, so a Kindergarten maze and a Grade 5 maze are genuinely different problems rather than the same maze at different scales.
Completing an AB or ABC pattern is the same mental move as spotting that a number sequence goes up in fives. Children who are fluent with patterns tend to find skip counting obvious rather than mysterious, which is why these sheets are worth printing alongside the math ones rather than treating as a filler activity.
The pattern sheets run from simple two-item repeats up to three-item and growing patterns, and the shapes and sorting sheets do the same job for attributes rather than sequence.
They practise planning and visual tracking, and they are the sheet a child will do voluntarily on a bad afternoon. That is worth something on its own.
Patterns, shapes and sorting sit in Kindergarten to Grade 3; ordering numbers runs to Grade 4; mazes cover the whole K–5 range through the difficulty setting.
Yes, including the maze solution path.