3D Shape Cut & Paste

Get your students learning the basics of math and geometry with this wonderful 3D Shape Cut & Paste Worksheet! Kids will have a blast as they cut out and sort 3D shapes and learn to identify them in versatile ways by matching them to real-world objects. A great activity to help jumpstart their journey of exploring the world of shapes and developing their early geometry skills. The 3D shapes students are matching real-world objects to in this activity are: cube, cylinder, cone, and sphere.

This worksheet gives students a hands-on experience, as they learn and sort a variety of 3D shapes, from basic geometry to real-life objects. As they work through this activity, they'll gain confidence in their early geometry skills and be prepared for more challenging tasks! This worksheet invites great discussions as students get a glimpse of how shapes manifest in real life objects in their everyday lives. Have they seen these 3D shapes at home? Can they find any 3D shapes looking around the classroom? Can they thing of more real-life objects that are any of the 3D shapes on this worksheet?

Ideal for students in preschool, kindergarten, or 1st grade.

• K.G.1.d. Identify and name the following shapes: cubes, cones, cylinders, and spheres

• K.G.3.b. Identify shapes as three-dimensional and solid.

• K.G.4.b. Describe three-dimensional shapes to identify their various attributes including faces and edges.

1.G.1. Distinguish between defining attributes (e.g., triangles are closed and three-sided) versus non-defining attributes (e.g., color, orientation, overall size) ; build and draw shapes to possess defining attributes

Check out this set of 3D shape posters on Teach Simple that you can use as an aid for this activity or as a follow-up study of 3D shapes as real-world objects:

Two PDF ready to print pages. The first page is the worksheet to print for students. The second page is the answer key.