Skip to content
LessonPrint

What Does It Take to Make? is a free printable Kindergarten to Grade 2 social studies worksheet on the costs of production, aligned to Common Core standard D2.Eco.7.K-2. It prints 2 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions that each ask different questions, so no two pupils in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.

Set 1 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.

Next setLesson plan

One paper per pupil

All 25 sets ask different questions.

What Does It Take to Make?

D2.Eco.7.K-2

NameDate

Draw a line from each thing to what it takes to make it.

LessonPrint · D2.Eco.7.K-2 · Set 1 · free to copy for classroom use

Answer key — What Does It Take to Make?

Set 1. Prints on its own sheet.

  1. 1.1. To make a cake you need — B (Eggs, sugar and flour) 2. To make a jumper you need — A (Wool and needles) 3. To grow carrots you need — D (Seeds, soil and water) 4. To build a wall you need — C (Bricks and cement)
  2. 2.1. To make juice you need — C (Fruit and a squeezer) 2. To bake bread you need — D (Flour, water and an oven) 3. To make a table you need — B (Wood and nails) 4. To paint a picture you need — A (Paint, a brush and paper)

Questions about What Does It Take to Make?

What does the What Does It Take to Make? worksheet cover?

It practises the costs of production — 2 questions for Kindergarten to Grade 2, all on Common Core D2.Eco.7.K-2: Give examples of what it costs to make something. The instruction to pupils is “Draw a line from each thing to what it takes to make it”, and the answer key follows on the next sheet.

Which Common Core standard does What Does It Take to Make? practise?

D2.Eco.7.K-2 — D2.Eco.7.K-2, in the Economics domain for Kindergarten to Grade 2. The published standard reads: “Describe examples of costs of production.” The worksheet assesses that standard rather than a paraphrase of it.

What age or grade is this worksheet for?

What Does It Take to Make? is written for Kindergarten to Grade 2, typically ages 7-8. It is one of the sheets on D2.Eco.7.K-2, so it suits any pupil working at that standard — including older pupils revisiting it and younger ones working ahead.

Does What Does It Take to Make? come with an answer key?

Yes. All 2 answers are generated from the same problems as the questions, so the key cannot drift out of step with the sheet. It starts on a fresh sheet of paper, after the questions, so it is not handed out with the class by accident.

How many different versions of What Does It Take to Make? can I print?

25 — one per pupil, and all 25 ask different questions. Set 1 downloads the whole class as a single PDF. Every version is fixed to its own address, so a sheet printed today holds the same problems when you reopen it next week.

Is What Does It Take to Make? free to print and photocopy?

Yes. What Does It Take to Make?, its answer key and its 25 versions are free to print and photocopy for your own class, with no account, no email capture and no subscription at the download step. Please do not resell them or republish them as your own.

Is there a lesson plan to teach D2.Eco.7.K-2?

Yes — “What It Takes to Make” is a 40-minute Kindergarten to Grade 2 plan for D2.Eco.7.K-2, timed section by section, with the misconceptions to expect and an exit ticket. What Does It Take to Make? is the practice that follows it.

More practice for D2.Eco.7.K-2

Give examples of what it costs to make something.

Teaching this next? What It Takes to Make is the 40-minute plan for it, with the misconceptions to expect.

All Kindergarten to Grade 2 worksheets

Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to D2.Eco.7.K-2 of the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards.