Hand a six-year-old a crayon and a blank circle, ask for one third, and the first line often lands right through the middle. Splitting a shape into equal parts is harder than spotting them. This 1st grade shade the fraction worksheet asks children to do both. A model at the top shows a hexagon cut into four parts with one part shaded, next to the written fraction 1/4. Then five empty shapes wait, each beside a fraction: a circle for 1/3, a square for 3/4, a triangle for 1/2, another triangle for 2/3 and a rectangle for 2/4. The child draws the lines, then shades the right number of parts. A second page gives the answer key.