Sticks and Clay Shapes is a free printable Kindergarten math worksheet on building a shape from sticks for the sides and clay balls for the corners, aligned to Common Core standard K.G.B.5. It prints 7 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions, 24 of them with different questions, so no two students in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.
Set 4 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
Set 1 has all 25 in a single PDF. 24 of these 25 sets ask different questions — this skill does not have 25 questions to give. The rest reorder them, so no two students have the same paper in front of them.
Sticks and Clay Shapes
K.G.B.5
NameDate
Answer each question.
1.How many clay balls do you need for the corners of a hexagon?
2.How many sticks do you need to make a rectangle?
3.You join 3 sticks with 3 clay balls to make a closed shape. What shape is it?
4.How many sticks do you need to make a square?
5.You join 2 long sticks and 2 short sticks with 4 clay balls and make square corners. What shape is it?
6.How many clay balls do you need for the corners of a square?
7.How many sticks do you need to make a hexagon?
LessonPrint · K.G.B.5 · Set 4 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Sticks and Clay Shapes
Set 4. Prints on its own sheet.
1.6
2.4
3.triangle
4.4
5.rectangle
6.4
7.6
Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to K.G.B.5 of the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics.