Needs and Wants Worksheets

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Our free, printable needs and wants worksheets shed just as much light on things that are necessary for survival as they do on non-essential things, which serve to satisfy our desires. Get them to explore exercises such as identifying whether given objects are needs or wants, shading needs and wants in different colors, and reasoning why an object is named a need or a want. This collection, which leaves no stone unturned when it comes to wants and needs, is an absolute must-have.

These needs and wants worksheets pdf with answer keys are best suited for little ones in kindergarten and grade 1.

Sorting Needs and Wants

Encourage kids to ask themselves if they can do without any of the objects they'd like to have in this exercise. If the answer is a yes, then the object is a want, otherwise it is a need.

Sorting Needs and Wants

Differences between Needs and Wants

Explore the differences between needs and wants in greater detail with this worksheet, where the task is for kids to snip the word cards and glue them in the correct column.

Differences between Needs and Wants

Coloring Needs and Wants

A blast of blue here, and a burst of yellow there, this printable needs or wants worksheet tasks tiny tots with coloring essential and non-essential objects in different hues.

Coloring Needs and Wants

Identifying Objects as Needs or Wants

In this identifying needs and wants worksheet pdf, kindergarten kids take a good look at the picture of each object, determine if it is required for survival, and check the correct answer.

Identifying Objects as Needs or Wants

Recognizing Scenarios as Needs or Wants

Help 1st grade kids pay attention to each scenario in this part of our needs and wants worksheets pdf, hone in on the central theme, and figure out if it is a need or a want.

Recognizing Scenarios as Needs or Wants

Reasoning | Why Is It a Need or a Want?

Augment logical thinking skills with this worksheet that requires learners to first figure out if the object is a want or a need, before writing down reasons to back up their answer.

Reasoning - Why Is It a Need or a Want

Drawing Examples of Needs and Wants

Inject a bit of fun and excitement to your little ones' study time, while getting them to spread out their wings of creativity. Watch them draw examples of needs and wants here.

Drawing Examples of Needs and Wants

Needs and Wants Chart

Pervading this printable needs and wants chart are labeled examples of items absolutely necessary for survival and ones that are nice to have, but certainly not essential.

Needs and Wants Chart

Checking Examples of Wants

If it is a need, leave it intact; if it is a want, make a check mark. Repeat this mantra to kindergarten and grade 1 kids as they answer this printable needs and wants worksheet.

Checking Examples of Wants

Wants vs. Needs

Pairs of objects, one of them a need, and the other a want, pose an exciting challenge for little ones looking to brush up on their needs-and-wants knowledge with this pdf exercise.

Wants vs Needs