🧩 Matching & Sorting
What Comes Next?
Ages 4–5
🧩 Matching & Sorting
Match the Shapes
A five-pair matching page where children draw lines between identical shapes in shuffled columns.
- Suitable for
- Ages 3–5
- Pages
- 1 page
- Level
- Medium
- Printing
- Black & white
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What your child practises
- Matches identical shapes across a distance
- Draws long, controlled lines between two targets
- Tracks visually without losing their place
- Works methodically through a five-item task
About this worksheet
Two columns of five shapes, deliberately shuffled so the connecting lines cross. Your child draws a line from each shape on the left to its twin on the right.
Drawing a long, controlled line across a page is a real pre-writing skill in itself — quite separate from the matching. Crossing lines also force the child to track carefully rather than simply joining the nearest pair, which is what makes a shuffled column better practice than an aligned one.
Small orange dots mark where each line should start and finish, giving a clear target at both ends.
How to use this sheet
If the crossing lines get confusing, cover the rows already done with a sheet of paper and work down one at a time.
