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Nets of 3D Shapes Worksheets

Raid this printable compilation of nets of 3D shapes worksheets to find exercises like identifying 3D figures from nets, matching nets with solids, choosing the correct net. Turn the boredom of your grade 4 through grade 8 students into a fun-filled experience with endless options like drawing nets, cut and glue activity, and more. Comprehend how a 3D figure unfolds into a 2-dimensional net and how a 2D net folds into a 3D shape. Don't miss out on our free worksheets.

Nets of 3D Shapes

Is it a Net?

You have to try this printable worksheet if you intend to begin right. Recall the properties of solid shapes and determine if the given figure is a net of a 3D shape. That's not all, go ahead and name the 3-dimensional shape too.

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Identifying Nets of 3D Shapes

A cereal box cut open at the edges is the net of a rectangular prism. Get your learners in 4th grade and above to spot the 3D shapes from their nets and name them.

Identifying the 3D Shape from Its Net

Challenge your brood of shape savvy learners to observe each net keenly and identify the 3-dimensional shape that can be created by folding it.

Matching Shapes and Nets

Visualizing how each net when folded forms a 3D figure and counting the number of faces will do the trick in identifying the solid shape and matching the flattened 2D net with its corresponding 3D shape.

Choosing the Correct Nets

Does a triangular pyramid unfold into a net made of four triangles or two triangles and three rectangles? With three options of nets to choose from, this pdf worksheet is a definite brain teaser for your grade 5 and grade 6 students.

Shapes and Nets | Cut and Glue Activity

Nothing feels quite as engaging as this cut and glue activity worksheet. Take things up a notch as learners snip the 3D figure cards and the nets, pair them up and glue them in the correct columns.

Choosing Multiple Nets of 3D Shapes

Did you know a cube has 11 different nets? This pdf is the perfect thing to have on hand if you intend to show learners the multiple nets each 3D shape yields when flattened. Using the attributes of each shape, figure out the possible net(s) from the given options.

Drawing Nets on Grids

Whip up excitement as students get involved in this chore of sketching the nets of 3D figures on grids. Using the properties, draw the nets linking faces or edges of common 2D shapes in different orientations on the grid.

Drawing Two Nets of 3D Shapes

Watch 7th grade and 8th grade students stretch their creative skills as they pick up a pencil, imagine unfolding each 3D shape, and draw two different representations of each net effortlessly.

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Foldable 3D Shapes {FREE Printable Pack!}

Exploring the properties of three dimensional shapes is fun for all ages ! Because kids are introduced to 3D shapes early on, you could make these together with young kids, or you could use them with high schoolers to explore more complex math. No matter how you use them, this set of foldable 3D shapes is bound to be a hit!

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To assemble this set of foldable 3D shapes: 

I highly recommend printing the nets on stock paper rather than regular paper. I have tried it both ways, and regular paper is just too flimsy.

After printing, simply cut out the 3d shape nets on the solid lines.

If you’ve printed on white card stock as I have, take some time to get creative and color or decorate the shapes before assembling them! This could make a great math art project !

If your students are older, have them label the different parts of the shape (face, edge, base) before assembling to use as a reference throughout their study of shapes! 🙂

This will help them see and learn math vocabulary .

Then, carefully fold each tab so that it can be used to glue the shape together, and fold each side of the shape.

Finally, glue each side together . I suggest adding a few dabs of glue to each tab and then hold it in place for a few seconds before gluing the next tab. This will help make sure it stays together.

You can also use tape if that’s easier for you (or you don’t have glue).

Once all the shapes are assembled, you can use them however you like, depending on the age of your kids!

Learning ideas for foldable 3D shapes:

• Discuss math vocabulary such as polyhedron, face, edge, prism, etc.
• Compare the shapes by counting number of faces and edges or other characteristics
• Use them to go on a 3D shape hunt : find the shapes in real life
• Compare the different pyramids and then compare them to the great pyramids of Egypt (combining math and history!)
• Use the nets to learn about surface area and volume
• Use them along with the book, Sir Cumference and the Sword in the Cone to learn about Euler’s formula ( see more free resources to use with the book here !)
• Or simply as a fun math art project !

This set of geometric   nets is FREE to download and contains the following three dimensional shapes :

• Rectangular Prism
• Triangular Prism
• Triangle Based Pyramid
• Square Based Pyramid
• Pentagon Based Pyramid

In addition, this set includes a foldable copy (with tabs) to allow students as young as preschool build their own models, as well as geometric nets without tabs to be used for any other purpose in the geometry classroom!

For instance, let students measure the nets to explore surface area with these FREE surface area lessons ( surface area of prisms and cylinders  and surface area of pyramids and cones )!

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Hope you find these helpful and FUN as you explore three dimensional shapes !

Looking for more 3D shapes fun? Try one of these resources:

• 3D shapes games printable pack
• Exploring 3D shapes with a 3D drawing pen
• 3D shapes and their nets worksheets

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Geometry Nets Information & Worksheets

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Geometry Nets for 3d Shapes

Here you will find our range of Free Nets for Prisms and Pyramids.

The following printables contain nets of common 3D shapes that your child should know. Each net sheet is available both with and without tabs to aid sticking together.

Using these sheets will help your child to:

• know the properties of different 3d shapes;
• recognise different nets for 3d shapes;
• visualise a 3d shape from a net;

Nets include:

• Cuboid (or rectangular prism)
• Triangular Prism
• Hexagonal Prism
• Tetrahedron (triangular based pyramid)
• Square based Pyramid
• Hexagonal based Pyramid

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Faces, edges and vertices notes.

There are differences in the definition of what a face is depending on which country you are in.

In some countries, a face is defined to be a flat surface and cannot be curved.

In other countries, it is possible to have curved faces.

This irregularity has a knock-on effect on edges, which are the place where two faces meet.

As a vertex is a place where two or more curves, lines or edges meet, this is also affected by ambiguities.

Different Definitions Create Issues!

The Problems with Cones

• A cone can either have 1 or 2 faces depending on whether you count the curved 'face'.
• A cone can also either have 0 or 1 edges depending on whether you count the curved 'face'.
• A cone can either have one apex or vertex, or none as there are no edges that meet together.

The Problems with Cylinders

• A cylinder can either have 2 or 3 faces depending on whether you count the curved 'face'.
• A cylinder can either have 0 or 2 edges depending on whether you count the curved 'faces'

The information on this page is available as a printable net information sheet for you to use.

There is a color and black and white version available for you to download or print.

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These worksheets have been designed to help children match the nets to the 3d shapes.

There are 2 sort of worksheets:

• 'Find the Net' worksheets which involve selecting the correct net out of 3 possible nets;
• 'Match the Net' worksheets which involve matching the correct 3d shape to each net.

Find the Net Worksheets

• Find the Nets Sheet 1
• Find the Net Sheet 2
• Find the Net Sheet 3

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• Match the Nets Sheet 1
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Nets of a Cube Worksheets

This sheet involves finding different nets that make a cube when folded up. It is a great practical activity to explore nets.

• Nets of Cubes Sheet 1

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Here you will find our range of Free Nets for 3D Shapes.

The following printables contain large nets of common 3D shapes that your child should know. Each net sheet is available both with and without tabs to aid sticking together.

• recognise different 2d shapes inside the 3d shapes;
• construct a 3d shape from a net;
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Course: 6th grade   >   Unit 10

• Intro to nets of polyhedra

Nets of polyhedra

• Surface area using a net: triangular prism
• Surface area using a net: rectangular prism
• Surface area of a box (cuboid)
• Surface area of a box using nets
• Surface area using nets

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• how 3D shapes unfold into nets,
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• what nets of common geometric solids look like.

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Nets Of A Solid - Animations

Demonstrations showing how some shapes are made up from their nets. Show how the net of a cube folds to form the cube. (all the 11 possible nets of a cube are shown)

Show how the net of a cylinder folds to form the cylinder.

Show how the net of a cone folds to form the cone.

Show how the net of a tetrahedron folds to form a tetrahedron.

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In our page on three-dimensional shapes , we introduced 3D shapes called polyhedrons , which have multiple flat surfaces ( faces ) made up of 2D polygons , joined by straight edges and sharp corners ( vertices ).

A useful property of these solid shapes is that they can be described visually in two dimensions by a shape net .

A net in this context is nothing like a fishing net or a basketball net! It is simply a 2D picture of what the 3D shape would look like if all its sides were folded out flat. Imagine a cardboard box that has been opened out, for example.

A 2D net can be folded up to make the 3D shape.

Nets of Cubes and Cuboids

In the diagram below, you can see the familiar markings of a dice, but rather than being the 3D cube that you would expect, it is a flat 2D representation of the dice. You could cut this out and glue it together to make the cube :

The six separate squares with the familiar dots of the dice on are the shape net of the cube . The little tabs around the edges are there so that you can glue the dice together.

Shape nets for cubes – there isn’t just one answer

Cube nets are some of the simplest to visualise and it’s a fun test of your spatial skills to see how many you can create. In fact, there are 11 shape nets that make a cube .

The diagram below shows 16 different arrangements of 6 squares that all look like they could be cube nets, but 6 of them are not. Can you work out which are valid nets of a cube?

The answer is that 1, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14 and 15 are all valid nets of a cube.

2, 3, 5, 10, 11 and 16 cannot make a cube and they are non-nets . There is one valid net missing…. can you work it out?

This is quite tricky...

Now that you have started to exercise your spatial skills with regular cubes, the shape nets of a cuboid should be easier to understand.

A cuboid is similar to a cube, but some or all of its sides may be rectangular. The nets therefore have the same sort of characteristics as those for a cube, but they appear quite different.

Here is a net of a rectangular cuboid with side lengths 10cm, 20cm and 40cm.

In the cuboid net above, look for the vertex (corner) marked with the red dot. Using your spatial skills again, can you work out which other vertices, labelled 1 – 6, will join up with the red dot, when the cuboid is in its 3D form?

Nets can tell us more….

Now that we know the dimensions of the net, we can find out other properties of this solid, such as its volume and surface area .

The volume of a cuboid is calculated from the product of its length, width and height: Length × Width × Height = 40 × 20 × 10 = 192

The volume of this cuboid is therefore 8,000 cm 3 or 8 litres.

The surface area is the total area of all six sides added together.

We have two sides each of 20 × 40cm, 10 × 20cm and 10 × 40cm. 2 × 20 × 40 = 1,600 2 × 10 × 20 = 200 and 2 × 10 × 40 = 800 16 + 200 + 800 = 2,800

The cuboid therefore has a surface area of 2,800 cm 2 or 0.28m 2

Nets of Prisms, Pyramids and other Polygons

As with the cube example above, any 3D shape can have multiple nets, not just one, but here are some 3D shapes with examples of just one of their nets. See if you can work out some more.

Nets of Curved Solids

All of the examples above have concentrated on flat-sided polygons. Curved shapes can have nets too. They are simpler to visualise and construct if the solid has at least one flat surface. Here are some examples.

Sphere or Globe

A sphere has no flat surfaces, it is a continuous curve.

The creation of a flat 2D net of the globe was a problem for cartographers (map-makers) for centuries. When we look at the net of a sphere, we can see why it was difficult for cartographers to use it. Nevertheless, maps of the world have been produced this way:

Imagine you have an orange and you cut it into segments. When you have eaten the flesh, you are left with the pieces of skin. If you were to line them up, then they would look similar to the net of a sphere.

However, there is a flaw with this approach. No matter how many segments, each one will still have a flat surface.

Looking again at your pieces of orange skin, they not only curve top to bottom, but they curve side to side as well, unlike the page, which can only curve in one direction. This is called double curvature . It is therefore impossible to make a completely accurate 2D net of a 3D shape with double curvature. Even if there were 100 segments in the net above, it would still be an approximation.

Cartographers eventually overcame this problem by making maps based on a cylinder, called a projection . This is also an approximation, but it incorporates a distorted view of the surface of the globe that allows distances to be measured accurately on a flat map. For more on this, see our page on polar, cylindrical and spherical coordinate systems .

Conclusion: Why do we need nets at all?

Being able to understand how a three-dimensional shape is made up of two-dimensional components is not only a useful skill if you need to construct a box, but is also vitally important in any aspect of 3D design.

Engineers and designers use complex and powerful computer aided design (CAD) packages to help design everything from flat-packed furniture to the world’s largest cruise ships.

The important spatial skills that you build from a basic understanding of shape nets can therefore develop further into other more challenging design applications.

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These Year 5 worksheets on the nets of 3D shapes engage children in the exploration of three-dimensional shapes. The task involves selecting and colouring one net from three drawings that, when folded, can form a cube. Similarly, this process is repeated for a cuboid, square-based pyramid, and cylinder.

This nets of 3D shapes worksheet serves as an introductory experience for pupils to become acquainted with the concept of representing 3D shapes through nets. By actively participating in the selection and colouring of nets, children not only familiarise themselves with these geometric representations but also lay the foundation for a deeper understanding of spatial concepts related to various three-dimensional shapes.

Our Year 5 nets of 3D shapes worksheets are aligned with KS2 geometry: properties of shapes on the primary national curriculum. All of our Year 5 geometry: properties of shapes worksheets can be combined with your ideas for primary maths activities, learning resources, teaching material, visual aids, games, differentiation, display boards, homework, and lesson plans.

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Y5 Maths - 3D Shapes (Free)

Subject: Maths for early years

Age range: 7-11

Resource type: Worksheet/Activity

Last updated

23 February 2022

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This is a short resource designed for Year 5 students to help them practice identifying 3D shapes from their 2D nets.

I have an extended version of this resource available in my shop, which contains PDF and Word versions of the following:

• A help sheet outlining, with examples, the key 3D shapes and their equivalent 2D nets, and how to identify which 3D shape corresponds to which net.
• An extended question sheet including a variety of types of questions covering all of the topics covered in the help sheet.
• An answer sheet for teacher use or student consolidation.

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