All About The Olympic Games
Learn a little about the Olympic Games, Ancient and Modern, and then test yourself to see what you remember!
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Lots NEW! Our Olympic Games worksheets are designed to interest children in many different aspects of the Olympic Games, provide some fun, and give practise in some useful skills too. For home or school.
Learn a little about the Olympic Games, Ancient and Modern, and then test yourself to see what you remember!
The Ancient Olympic GamesKids can find out the facts they need to fill in this worksheet on the Ancient Olympic Games. Many of the answers are available on this page: All about the Olympic Games
A fun addition to an Olympic or Ancient Greek project, children can learn about the ancient Olympics with our cloze worksheet. Read the text and fill in the missing words.
Design a stamp to commemorate a special occasion or perhaps to celebrate your favourite hero or holiday! We've got two versions: one with the Queen's silhouette in the corner, just like a real British stamp; and one blank. Just print and start designing!
Kids can have a go at designing their own Olympics emblem using these printable worksheets. We have two versions available to suit different ages. Think about the current Olympic emblem and what is represents, then design your own.
Each Olympic Games has its own medal design. On one side is a picture of Nike, the goddess of victory, and on the other is a design unique to the Games.
Get the kids to write an acrostic poem using the word 'GOLD' - perfect for an Olympic theme - and use our printable pages to write it out and put it up on display.
Here's a fun acrostic poem printable with an Olympic theme. You could start your poem by brainstorming words or phrases that start with the letters in the word 'MEDAL'.
Do some fact-finding and then fill in this worksheet on the Modern Olympic Games. We have most of the answers children will need on the site, here: All about the Olympic Games
What do your children know about the modern Olympics? Test them with this fun cloze worksheet. Read the text and fill in the missing words from the word bank.
Use our acrostic poem printable featuring Nike, the Goddess of Victory, to inspire the children to write some Olympic-themed poetry. Choose from 4 variations of our printable; lined or blank, with pictures or without.
This writing page features Nike, goddess of victory and one of the emblems of the Olympic games. Print and use for your Olympic-themed writing projects.
Our alphabet challenge activity for the Olympics really is a challenge! Give one to each child in the classroom, or use this as a group activity in the class or at home. You could race against the clock or just keep coming back when you think of something new!
A fun Olympics writing page that children can use to write about their favourite Olympic hero - or to imagine their own Olympic success in the future, perhaps! We have two versions to chose from; one with plenty of writing lines and one with more drawing space.
Count the Olympic pictures and write the correct number in the box at the right of every line. A fun early years worksheet for the Olympic classroom!
Here is the second of our Olympic counting worksheets. Kids should count the images in each line and then write the correct number in the box.
Our third Olympic themed counting worksheet ask the kids to sort and count the jumbled up pictures and write the correct number for each one in the box.
Can you arrange these twelve Olympic themed words into alphabetical order? Remember if two start with the same letter you'll need to look at the second letter!
Use an online distance finder or a map, ruler and scale to work out the distance from your home town to all the host cities of the Olympic Games. Which was closest and where was furthest away? We have summer and winter versions available.
Children can practice map skills with our Olympic Games host countries worksheet. We've given the year and the city which hosted the games: children can test their geographical knowledge by filling in the country column. There are summer and winter versions to try.
Here's a fun way to practice pencil control with your little ones. Start by tracing over the straight line, then progress down the page getting increasingly wavy as you go!
Children can have fun learning their ordinal numbers with the help of some Olympic medals and a bit of colouring.
Our symmetry worksheets are a real challenge for the kids. We have two versions, one gridded (easier) and one blank. Can children draw the missing half of the Olympic medal?
Use our Olympic medal writing page to inspire some creative writing, or to write a report about an Olympic medal ceremony that you've watched.
While tracing the lines to find out which athlete won which medal, your children will be practising their pencil control and strenghtening their skills.
Use these tiles with our Olympic patterns 1 and Olympic patterns 2 worksheets, or print out a copy of the page for a simple memory game with either four sets of images or five sets.
See if the kids can follow the logic behind the patterns on this worksheet. They can either draw their own version of the next in line in the box, or cut out one of our Olympic patterns tiles to stick on.
There are six different patterns on our Olympic themed worksheet. Can the kids work out what image should be next in line? They can draw the answer into the box, or cut out one of our Olympic patterns tiles to stick on.
Did you know that the five multicoloured Olympic rings represent the five continents where athletes travel from to compete in the games? Use our writing page to write down some more research and facts about the Olympics, or to write reports about Olympic events and sports.
Some of us were lucky enough to see the Olympic torch as it travelled through the United Kingdom in 2012, and it's certainly an inspiring sight! Our writing page should encourage some creative writing, or perhaps write an account of watching an Olympic games opening ceremony?
This Olympic wreath symmetry worksheet asks the kid to copy one half of the wreath over to the other side of the page. The worksheet with the grid is easier, but still challenging!
The olive wreath was the prize for the winner at the ancient Olympic Games and is seen as a symbol of victory and honour. Write a creative story set at the ancient Olympic games on this writing page, or use it to record facts and research.
Fun Olympics acrostic poem printables to use in the classroom or home. Just start each line with a word beginning with the appropriate letter. Choose from 4 variations of our printable; lined or blank, with pictures or without.
Here's a bright and colourful Olympics acrostic poem printable to inspire young writers. We have a choice of four versions; lined or unlined and with or without graphics.
Use this Olympics Venn Diagram Printable to encourage the kids to do some thinking and sorting in the classroom! Compare and contrast the ancient and modern Olympic Games using a Venn diagram.
The motto for the 2016 Rio Olympics is "a New World". Our worksheet asks children to think about what this means, what that world might look like and how the Olympics and they themselves can play a part in creating it.
The second of our worksheets looking at the Rio Olympics motto 'A New World' can be completed by even very young children. They have to think about what their 'new world' would look like and draw it.
Have some fun with this sport acrostic poem printable!
This Summer Olympics 2016 comprehension worksheet tests children's ability to make sense of what they read and helps them learn facts at the same time.
Practice alphabetical order with this fun Summer Olympic Games worksheet. This one is tricky, one for older children.
The second of our Summer Olympics alphabetical order worksheets is a simple version for younger children. Can they arrange these 8 Olympic sports into alphabetical order?
Acrostic poetry is a simple kind of poetry where the first letter of each line creates a word when reading vertically. Can the children write an Olympic-themed acrostic poem using our torch printable for inspiration? We have four variations to choose from below.