🔺 Shapes
Trace and Learn the Shapes
Ages 3–5
🔺 Shapes
Find and Colour the Circles
A sixteen-shape scatter where children spot and colour the eight circles.
- Suitable for
- Ages 2–4
- Pages
- 1 page
- Level
- Easy
- Printing
- Black & white
Free, no sign-up. A4 · Print at 100% scale
What your child practises
- Identifies circles among visually similar shapes
- Holds a target in mind while scanning a full page
- Colours neatly within a boundary
- Checks work by counting the found items
About this worksheet
A shape-hunt with no writing at all. Sixteen shapes are laid out in a grid and eight of them are circles; everything else is a distractor.
Picking one shape out of a mixed set is a different skill from naming a shape shown on its own. Your child has to hold "circle" in mind while checking each item against it — an early form of the working memory that later powers reading and mental arithmetic.
The number of circles differs from row to row, so the page cannot be solved by spotting a rhythm in their positions rather than actually looking at each shape.
How to use this sheet
When they finish, count the coloured circles together. Eight is the answer — finding six and recounting is a perfectly good outcome.
