Colourful World Around Us: Colours & Shapes for KG 

This Kindergarten worksheet on Vocabulary – Colours and Shapes in Our Surroundings helps young learners recognize and identify basic colours and shapes through engaging picture-based activities. Designed especially for KG students, this worksheet strengthens early vocabulary, visual discrimination, and observation skills in a fun and interactive way. 

Through colour matching, object identification, shape recognition, and simple reading-based picture selection, children begin connecting words to real-world objects in their surroundings. These foundational concepts support early reading, speaking, and classroom instruction skills. 

Why Learning Colours and Shapes Matters in Early Education? 

Understanding colours and shapes helps children: 
1. Improve visual recognition and observation skills. 
2. Build early vocabulary and word-picture association. 
3. Strengthen cognitive development and sorting abilities. 
4. Prepare for early math concepts like patterns and geometry. 

What’s Inside This Worksheet? 

🧠 Exercise 1 – Circle the Matching Colours 
Children circle objects that match given colours such as red, yellow, green, blue, orange, pink, brown, black, white, and purple. 

🔎 Exercise 2 – Find & Circle by Colour 
Students identify real-world objects with specific colours like sky blue, orange, blue, yellow, green, red, purple, brown, white, and black. 

🔵 Exercise 3 – Find & Circle by Shape 
Children recognize and circle round, square, triangle, rectangle, and oval objects. 

📖 Exercise 4 – Read and Circle Nature Objects 
Students read simple words like tree, sun, cloud, flower, rain, leaf, moon, star, grass, and rock and circle the correct pictures. 

🏡 Exercise 5 – Read and Circle Everyday Objects 
Children identify objects such as ball, car, window, bird, jug, river, boat, fish, bag, and cat from pictures. 

ANSWER KEY (For Parents & Educators) 

Exercise 1 – Colours 

RED – Red balloons 
YELLOW – Yellow duck, yellow car 
GREEN – Tree, frog 
BLUE – Blue butterfly, blue bird 
ORANGE – Orange fruit 
PINK – Pink teddy bear 
BROWN – Brown teddy bear, chocolate 
BLACK – Black crow 
WHITE – Rabbit, sheep 
PURPLE – Purple starfish 

Exercise 2 – Colour Identification 

SKY BLUE – Kites in the sky 
ORANGE – Oranges 
BLUE – Blue butterfly 
YELLOW – Yellow umbrella 
GREEN – Green flag/leaf elements 
RED – Red rose 
PURPLE – Grapes 
BROWN – Brown hair 
WHITE – White dumplings 
BLACK – Black hair 

Exercise 3 – Shapes 

ROUND – Globe, plate 
SQUARE – Square frame 
TRIANGLE – Pizza slice, triangular object 
RECTANGLE – Book, tray 
OVAL – Oval shapes shown 

Exercise 4 – Nature Objects 

TREE – Tree 
SUN – Sun 
CLOUD – Cloud 
FLOWER – Flower 
RAIN – Raindrops 
LEAF – Leaf 
MOON – Moon 
STAR – Star 
GRASS – Grass 
ROCK – Rock 

Exercise 5 – Everyday Objects 

BALL – Ball 
CAR – Car 
WINDOW – Window 
BIRD – Bird 
JUG – Jug 
RIVER – River 
BOAT – Boat 
FISH – Fish 
BAG – School bag 
CAT – Cat 

Make early learning bright and exciting with fun colour and shape activities designed especially for Kindergarten learners. 
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