Best 20 Sunday School Worksheets for Preschoolers (Printable)
Our Sunday school room is in the church basement, down the stairs past the furnace. The carpet has a stain by the door that has been there since before we joined, and the supply shelf holds one plastic bin of crayons, most of them snapped in half, paper peeled off, the black one worn down to a nub. Eleven kids between three and five. One of them, Emma, brings a toy cow every single Sunday and will not put it down for anything, so whatever I hand her has to work one-handed.
I’m Rebecca. Three kids of my own, eight, six and three, and a husband who runs the youth group, so we are at that building a lot. I fill in for the little-kids class whenever the regular teacher needs a Sunday, which is often. A worksheet for this room has about four minutes of attention to work with. It cannot require reading. The lines have to be fat enough for a broken crayon held in a fist. And if it is going to come back next week it has to be laminated, because juice.
Below are sixteen files I’ve printed, cut apart, taped to the floor, or ruined on the church copier. Some are worksheet material straight out of the box, some I had to rebuild into something usable, and two of them are not worksheets at all. Heads up: some links below are affiliate links, so if you grab something through one it helps keep PsalmKids going at no extra cost to you. I’ll tell you which ones I’d buy again and which ones sat in my downloads folder.
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The Quilt Cross That Became a Color the Patches Sheet
I blew this one up to fill a whole sheet of paper and printed it in grayscale, so the quilt patches came out as empty shapes with a cross in the middle. That is a real activity for a four-year-old. Fill in the squares. No instructions needed, no reading, and a kid who colors three patches and quits still has something that looks finished.
The patches are small though. My threes could not stay in them and gave up, so I ran a second version scaled to 130 percent and cropped, which cut off the bottom row but gave the little ones squares they could actually hit. Took two tries at the copier to get right.
Honest gripe: the flag colors baked into the original mean the full-color print reads as a Fourth of July page, not a Sunday page. In a church basement in February that is just confusing. Grayscale fixes it, but you are buying a colored graphic and throwing away the color.
Easter Morning Sheet I Printed Twice Because I Forgot Grayscale
This is a finished colored image, not line art, and I did not think that through. First print came out dark and glossy and the kids just looked at it. You cannot color a page that is already colored. Second print, grayscale, light setting, and suddenly the cross outline was a coloring page with a nice thick edge.
What sold me on it is the shape. Big cross, empty space around it, nothing crowding the middle. Emma could hold her cow in one hand and still work on it, which is my whole test for that kid.
Gripe: the lettering. It is a script font, decorative, and to a preschooler it is a squiggle. I ended up covering it with a sticky note before copying and writing HE IS RISEN in block caps underneath in marker. My handwriting is worse than the font and the kids recognized the letters anyway.
Praying Hands, Sunflowers, and a Matching Game Made at 10 p.m.
I bought this the Saturday night before I was subbing, which is how most of these purchases happen. Cut it into eight squares, printed two copies, laminated the whole batch, and Sunday morning we had a memory game. Flip two, find the pair. Zero reading. It ate fifteen minutes, and fifteen minutes in that room is a lot.
The praying hands image is the one that actually did teaching work. I put my hands like the picture, the kids copied me, and that was the prayer lesson. Nobody had to explain anything.
Gripe: the bundle has near-twins in it. Two sunflower arrangements that are basically the same flower rotated, and a preschooler flipping cards cannot tell them apart, so the matching game breaks and somebody cries. I pulled those two out. Now it is a six-pair game and it works.
Jonah in Four Cards, No Reading Required
Best purchase on this list for the little class. I printed the whale, the boat, the storm and the fish spitting Jonah out onto four index-card-sized rectangles, laminated them, and the activity is just: put these in order. They argue about it. They move the cards around. That is the lesson, and it takes no words at all.
I keep this set in a ziplock in the tote and it has survived maybe nine Sundays, including one incident with apple juice. The lamination is the only reason it still exists.
Gripe: the watercolor edges go soft and muddy on the church copier, which is old and prints everything about 20 percent darker. The storm card in particular turned into a gray smudge. I ended up printing these at home on the good printer and just accepting the ink cost. Also the whale is smiley and friendly, so I have had a kid insist Jonah was in there for a nap.
Moses Works Better After You Cover the Tiny Writing
The two tablets are a good preschool shape. Simple, symmetrical, easy to trace, and I use them as a cut-and-paste page: here are ten little rectangles, glue them onto the tablets, count as you go. That is a counting worksheet with a Bible frame around it, which is exactly what I need at that age.
Moses himself in this set is drawn with a real beard and real robes instead of the round cartoon look, and older siblings who wander in from the big-kid class do not roll their eyes at it. Small thing, but it matters when you have a seven-year-old hanging around.
Gripe: the tablets come with tiny Roman numerals printed on them. To a four-year-old those are just marks, and one kid asked me why the rocks had scratches. I covered them with white boxes before printing. Would have preferred the file just include a blank tablet version, since half the point of Moses clipart is putting your own thing on the stone.
A Frog on a Scooter Bought Me Ten Minutes of Attention
Right up front: this is an embroidery file, not a printable. If you do not have a machine, skip it. I have one that mostly lives in a closet, and I stitched this frog onto the front pocket of the class tote bag.
Here is why it earned its spot anyway. Preschoolers need a mascot more than they need another sheet. The frog on the scooter became the thing they check for when I walk in, and Emma has named him something different every week. Cow’s friend, currently. When I pull the tote out, they come sit down, which is a problem I did not know how to solve before.
Gripe: the design is dense with fill stitches and it stiffens whatever you put it on. On a canvas tote, fine. I tried a small version on a kid-sized t-shirt for my three-year-old and it came out like a plastic patch, scratchy, and she refused to wear it. Bag material only.
Name Badges for VBS Week, Expiring Next Summer
We ran a Rome week last summer and I cut forty name badges out of this file on the Cricut, then punched a hole and ran yarn through. Laminated first, then punched. Learn from me: punch after laminating or the hole tears out by Wednesday.
For a nonreading age group the badge is not for the kid, it is for the adults, and having every three-year-old’s name visible from across the fellowship hall saved us constantly. Also the design is bold enough that the kids could recognize their own badge by the color block before they could read their name on it.
Gripe: 2026 is baked into the artwork. Next summer this file is dead weight unless you cut the date off, and on some of the layouts the date sits inside the design instead of on a separate layer, so cutting it out means redrawing a chunk. I would rather have paid the same and gotten a dateless version in the folder.
The Calm Corner Card With Slang I Had to Explain to a Grandma
We have a beanbag in the corner for the kid who needs out. I printed this one big, laminated it, and taped it to the wall behind the beanbag. The point is not that they read it. The point is I sit down with them, tap the card, and say the words out loud. Same four words every time. By the third Sunday two of them were saying it with me.
It does the job a wordy verse card cannot at that age, which is being short enough to repeat while somebody is still crying.
Gripe: the phrasing is casual, and one of the grandmothers who helps on rotation read it off the wall and asked me if that was scripture. Fair question. I now say up front that it is a paraphrase, not a verse. Also the font on the download is a loose script that even I had to look at twice, so if you want kids seeing actual letter shapes you are retyping it.
Pastel Bunnies That Print Too Pale on the Church Copier
I wanted cut-and-paste pieces for an Easter collage, so I printed a sheet of these, and the kids tore them out (scissors are optimistic at three) and glued them onto a big sheet of butcher paper. That is a forty-minute activity with eleven kids and it makes a wall display the parents actually photograph.
The pastel palette is soft in a way the kids like. Nothing loud, nothing scary, and the bunny gives you a hook for the ones who are not tracking the cross part yet.
Gripe: pale prints pale. On our basement copier the lightest flowers basically disappeared, and a kid cannot cut out a shape they cannot see. I had to bump contrast in the free image editor before printing. Also, one dad has opinions about bunnies next to crosses. I did not argue. I just used the flower pieces that week.
Cartoon Jesus, Polka Dots, and the Handout the Threes Grabbed First
Of everything I laid out on the table that Easter, this was the one they grabbed. Rounded style, soft colors, a bunny in the corner. Three-year-olds go for it immediately. I printed it four to a page, cut them into little cards, and every kid took one home in their pocket.
I also used it as the front of a folded paper card, with the inside left blank for scribbling. Send it home to grandma. Parents like getting something back from Sunday school that is not a crumpled sheet.
Gripe: the polka dot bows and the pattern behind everything crowd the verse text until it is a decoration rather than words. And there are teachers at our church who will not hand out a cartoon drawing of Jesus, full stop. I do not have a strong position on it, but check with whoever runs your children’s ministry before you print forty copies like I did.
The Bundle I Actually Build Worksheets From
This is the one I open when I need to make a sheet from scratch. Drop three or four pieces into a blank page, add a fat box to color, print. Nine of my worksheets last quarter came out of this folder, including a trace-the-cross page and a which-one-is-different page that the fours found extremely serious business.
The file count is generous enough that I am not reusing the same dove every week, which the kids do notice. They notice everything.
Gripe: the styles inside are not consistent. Some pieces are flat and simple, some are shaded and detailed, and if you put one of each on the same worksheet it looks like a ransom note. I sorted the folder into two subfolders, simple and detailed, and now I only pull from one per page. That was an hour of my life I would like back, but the bundle earns it.
A Verse They Cannot Read, Taped to the Floor as Footprints
Quote SVGs are aimed at grown-ups making mugs and shirts, and a four-year-old gets nothing from four words in a nice font. So I ignored the words and used the file for the idea. Cut fifteen paper footprints, laminated them, taped a winding trail across that basement carpet, and the game is walking the path with your eyes on the next step.
Then the second round, you close your eyes and a partner tells you where to step. That is the closest I have gotten to explaining faith versus sight to a preschooler, and it took no explaining at all because they were doing it.
Gripe: you are paying for a text design and using maybe a quarter of it. The lettering layers are the bulk of the file and I have never once cut them. If you only want a shape to build an activity around, this is an expensive way to get it. I still use the trail four or five times a year.
One Giant Download and an Evening of Renaming Files
If you are stocking up for a whole quarter, a big collection like this is the cheapest way to do it. I got crosses, doves, open Bibles, praying kids, little scenes, enough raw material to build worksheets from September through Christmas without repeating myself.
My main use is bingo boards and do-a-dot sheets. Six icons, big and spaced out, dot marker in each fist. That activity works with an entire room of preschoolers at once, which almost nothing else does.
Gripe: the download is enormous and the files come named as strings of numbers, so finding the dove means opening twenty previews. I spent an evening at the kitchen table renaming things while the kids were in bed, and I am still not done. Budget that time or you will be scrolling through thumbnails at 9 a.m. Sunday, which I have also done.
Not a Worksheet at All, and I Bought It Anyway
This is an embroidery design for teacher gear, so it has nothing to do with printables. I am including it because the regular teacher in our little-kids class has been doing this for six years for free and I wanted to give her something.
I stitched it on an apron, the kind with big front pockets, and she wears it every Sunday now. The pockets hold laminated cards and a glue stick and about nine broken crayons. Turns out that is a genuinely useful piece of equipment, not just a nice gift.
Gripe: the lettering is small and it stitched badly on the first try, on a towel, where the loops swallowed the thin parts. Went up a size, moved to flat cotton, came out clean. If your machine is basic like mine, plan on scaling this one up and forget about towels.
The Tote Bag That Carries All the Laminated Cards
Same category as the last one. Embroidery file, no printable inside, so if you do not stitch there is nothing here for you. I put this on the side of the canvas tote I haul down to the basement every Sunday, opposite side from the frog.
Why it matters: the bag became identifiable. The kids know that bag, and when it is on the table they know something is happening. I did not plan that and I would not have believed it mattered. It matters.
Gripe: the design is dense, and it took a long run on the machine plus a stabilizer I had to go buy. Also the phrase is aimed at the teacher, not the kids, so it is decoration to them. Nice decoration. Nothing more than that, and I would not pretend otherwise.
Little Icons for Do a Dot Bingo When You Need Filler Fast
This is my filler set. Simple faith icons, small, clean, and when I need a worksheet in twenty minutes I lay six of them on a page in a grid and that is bingo. Or that is a dot marker sheet. Or that is a cut-and-glue sorting page, crosses in this pile, hearts in that pile.
I have printed this file more times than anything else on the list, mostly because it makes pages fast and preschoolers do not need novelty as much as adults think they do. Same game, different icons, and they are happy.
Gripe: a few of the icons have thin outlines that vanish when you scale them down, which is exactly what you do to fit six on a page. I checked one at print size and it came out as a faint gray suggestion of a dove. Stick to the chunkier pieces in the set and skip the delicate ones. Also two files had a white box behind them instead of a clean transparent background, so they cut into whatever they sat on.
A Few Last Thoughts
If you are subbing next Sunday and have one evening, here is the short version. Buy one clipart bundle, the big Christian Collection kind, and one story set like the Jonah cards. Build two things from them: a set of four sequencing cards and a do-a-dot sheet with six big icons. Laminate both. That covers a lesson and the ten minutes after the lesson when the parents are still upstairs talking, which is the part nobody warns you about.
The rest of it, the embroidery files, the VBS badges, the quote SVGs, those are for when you have time and want to make something with your hands. None of it needs to be finished or pretty. Last Sunday Emma colored the whale card entirely brown, cow tucked under her arm the whole time, and told me it was the cow’s whale. I said that sounded right. That was the lesson landing, as far as I’m concerned.
Frequently Asked Questions
What age are Sunday school worksheets for preschoolers actually right for?
Three to five is the sweet spot. Under three you want coloring only, no instructions, nothing that needs scissors. My own three-year-old can handle a thick-line coloring sheet and a sticker page, and that is about it. By five they can follow a two-step direction on the page if you read it out loud first.
Should I laminate worksheets for a Sunday school class?
Laminate anything you plan to reuse week to week, like matching cards or a job chart. Do not laminate the pages kids take home, they want to keep those. I run one laminating session a month and it covers the whole quarter.
How many copies should I print for a class?
Count your usual attendance and add four. Somebody always brings a cousin. Cardstock for anything that gets handled twice, regular paper for one-and-done coloring.