3D Shapes
Year 1Week 2
Year 1: 3D Shapes (Week 2)
5 daily worksheets — Part of Shapes
About Year 1 3D Shapes Worksheets
Does your child know the difference between 2D and 3D shapes? These free Year 1 3D shapes worksheets introduce solid shapes like cubes, spheres, cylinders, and pyramids. Understanding 3D shapes helps children make sense of the world around them — because real objects aren't flat!
This week's five worksheets take your child into the world of 3D shapes. They'll learn the names of common 3D shapes, explore their properties (faces, edges, and vertices), and connect shapes to real-world objects like dice, balls, and tins. The worksheets build gradually from recognition to description.
What's Inside Each Day
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Day 1
Naming 3D shapes — your child identifies cubes, cuboids, spheres, cylinders, cones, and pyramids.
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Day 2
3D shapes and real objects — children match 3D shapes to everyday items (a football is a sphere, a cereal box is a cuboid).
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Day 3
Faces, edges, and vertices — your child begins to count the faces, edges, and corners of simple 3D shapes.
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Day 4
Sorting 3D shapes — children sort shapes by properties like "shapes that roll" and "shapes that stack".
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Day 5
3D shapes reasoning — your child describes 3D shapes using clues and works out mystery shapes from descriptions.
Skills Your Child Will Practise
- Recognising and naming common 3D shapes
- Matching 3D shapes to everyday objects
- Describing 3D shapes using simple properties
- Sorting 3D shapes by what they can do
- Using vocabulary: face, edge, vertex
Top Tip for Parents
Build a 3D shape collection at home! Gather objects like balls (spheres), boxes (cuboids), tins (cylinders), and party hats (cones). Let your child sort them, describe them, and build with them. Handling real 3D shapes makes worksheet activities much more meaningful.
All our Year 1 3D Shapes worksheets are completely free to download and print. Each worksheet is aligned to the UK national curriculum and includes fluency practice, word problems, and reasoning challenges — everything your child needs for a well-rounded KS1 maths practice session.