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Free printable worksheets · Ages 4–8

Worksheets that feel like puzzles

Counting, sums, reading, patterns and telling the time. On most sheets, correct answers reveal a hidden picture or crack a secret code.

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A child writes answers on a Calculate and Discover sheet. The hidden picture in the number grid is not coloured in yet.

75 sheets

8 games

New for December

Christmas worksheets are here

36 sheets for ages 4–8. Christmas trees, snowmen and presents hide in the grids, plus festive detective cases and stories.

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All worksheets

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8 games

Find, Count and Discover worksheet with a garden scene, counting boxes and a number grid
Ages 4–5Counting9 sheets

Find, Count and Discover

Find the objects in a busy picture and count them. The counts tell the child which cells to colour, and a hidden picture appears.

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Sound and Discover worksheet with six pictures, letter boxes and a letter grid
Ages 5–6Literacy9 sheets

Sound and Discover

Say each picture out loud and write its first letter. Those letters show which cells to colour.

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Continue and Discover worksheet with shape and number patterns and a grid of mixed signs
Ages 5–7Patterns9 sheets

Continue and Discover

Work out what comes next in each row of shapes or numbers. The next pieces show which cells to colour.

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Calculate and Discover worksheet with sums to 20 and a number grid
Ages 6–7Math9 sheets

Calculate and Discover

Solve sums to 20. The answers show which cells to colour, and a hidden picture appears.

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Clock and Discover worksheet with analogue clock faces and a grid of hours
Ages 6–8Telling the time15 sheets

Clock and Discover

Read the clocks and write the times to reveal a hidden picture. From whole hours to half past, quarter past and quarter to.

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Reading Comprehension worksheet with three short stories and fill-in-the-blank sentences
Ages 6–8Literacy11 sheets

Reading Comprehension

Three very short stories per sheet. The child reads each one and fills in the missing words in four sentences about it.

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Detective Cipher worksheet with a cipher code table and rows of sums that spell a message
Ages 7–8Math6 sheets

Detective Cipher

Solve the sums, look up each result in the cipher code and decode a secret question and its answer.

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Test Prep worksheet with bundles of sticks, balance scales, number neighbours, riddles and a number train
Ages 7–8Math7 sheets

Test Prep

Maths test practice with numbers to 20: scales, pyramids, number machines, a secret code, word problems and a practice test.

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What's inside

Three kinds of sheets

Every game comes with child sheets and an answer key. Most of them also show the child when the answers are right.

How the sheets work
1 game

Secret code

Each sum gives a number and each number gives a letter. Solved in order, the letters spell a riddle and its answer.

Detective Cipher worksheet with a cipher code table and rows of sums that spell a message
2 games

Reading and test prep

Very short stories with fill-in sentences, and maths puzzles with numbers to 20 that end with a practice test.

Reading Comprehension worksheet with three short stories and fill-in-the-blank sentences