Adding with Pictures or Objects Worksheets

About This Worksheet Collection

The Adding with Pictures or Objects Worksheets collection helps young learners understand addition through concrete, highly-visual representations. By counting real objects, drawings, dots, shapes, dominoes, tally marks, dice, and student-created pictures, children build a strong conceptual foundation for addition before moving to symbolic equations.

These worksheets emphasize counting, grouping, matching, modeling, subitizing, and early number-sentence formation, supporting the bridge from hands-on thinking to abstract math. Because early learners make sense of numbers best through pictures and manipulatives, this collection strengthens both accuracy and confidence with addition within 10 and 20.

Detailed Descriptions Of These Worksheets

Pacman Counting Addition
Students count how many pellets Pacman eats in each row and write the total. This strengthens one-to-one correspondence and helps children see addition as "counting all" objects. The fun visuals make early counting and basic addition more engaging.

Fruit Picture Addition
Learners count sets of fruits, write each quantity, and add to find a total. Students practice translating pictures into numbers and then into addition sentences. This worksheet reinforces early addition and cardinality using colorful imagery.

Puppy Addition Choices
Students count groups of puppies and choose the correct total from multiple-choice options. The activity builds accuracy in counting, number recognition, and comparing small groups. It also supports early understanding of addition as combining sets.

Car Chase Addition
Children count police cars and race cars in each scene and write an equation showing the total. This worksheet teaches students to turn visual scenes into symbolic math sentences, strengthening mathematical reasoning and early problem formation.

Shape Matching Addition
Students examine groups of shapes and match each picture to the correct addition sentence. This builds understanding that equations describe combining groups and strengthens connections between visuals and symbols.

Color and Add Objects
Learners color each type of object, count each group, and write an addition sentence. Coloring separates the sets visually and supports counting accuracy. Students practice forming their own addition equations and identifying totals.

Domino Addition
Students count the dots on each side of dominoes and fill in missing numbers in each math sentence. This supports recognizing number combinations, identifying missing addends, and deepening early number-composition skills.

Draw to Add
Students draw objects to model each number in a problem, then count all objects to find the total. This hands-on activity reinforces representational thinking, number modeling, and the idea that addition combines sets.

Dice Addition Problems
Students look at groups of dice, write the numbers shown, and add them together. This builds subitizing skills, number formation, and the ability to add several small parts. Learners connect quick visual recognition to symbolic addition.

Tally Mark Addition
Students read tally groups, translate them into numerals, and complete addition sentences. This strengthens understanding of tally patterns, missing addends, and number grouping strategies such as skip-counting by fives.

Dice Sum Addition
Students add the dots on two dice to compute the total. This supports fast visual recognition of quantities ("subitizing"), addition within 12, and fluent recording of sums. The game-like format is ideal for early fluency building.

Sweets Picture Addition
Learners count two picture groups of sweets, record each number, and add them to find the total. This worksheet reinforces counting accuracy, number writing, and addition within 20 using appealing, themed visuals perfect for young learners.