Simple Past Tense Worksheet for Kids
Speaking tips (Grammar point): Most actions add -ed: play → played, watch → watched. Some are special — learn them: go → went, do → did, make → made, take → took, eat → ate. After “did” use the simple word: “Did you watch the film?” (not “watched”).
NameDateTime takenScore ___ / 40
- 1.We ___ cricket last Sunday. (a) plays (b) play (c) played
- 2.🏖️ What is this? (a) temple (b) fireworks (c) camera (d) beach
- 3.They ___ at home yesterday. (a) were (b) was (c) are
- 4.Which sentence says “Last week, we went to the beach.”? (a) Last week, we went to the beach. (b) Grandmother made sweets for everyone. (c) We took a train to Jaipur.
- 5.Make a sentence: Diwali / diyas / on / night. / We / lit
- 6.Make a sentence: a / We / to / Jaipur. / train / took
- 7.Make a sentence: Diwali / diyas / night. / lit / We / on
- 8.Did you ___ the film? (a) watch (b) watches (c) watched
- 9.Arjun ___ very happy last week. (a) is (b) was (c) were
- 10.Make a sentence: a / to / We / train / Jaipur. / took
- 11.Which sentence says “Yesterday, I watched a funny film.”? (a) Riya wrote a letter to her grandmother. (b) Yesterday, I watched a funny film. (c) We lit diyas on Diwali night.
- 12.Make a sentence: to / train / Jaipur. / We / took / a
- 13.Yesterday, I ___ to the market. (a) goes (b) go (c) went
- 14.Make a sentence: on / Diwali / lit / night. / We / diyas
- 15.Which sentence says “Riya wrote a letter to her grandmother.”? (a) We took a train to Jaipur. (b) Riya wrote a letter to her grandmother. (c) We lit diyas on Diwali night.
- 16.Make a sentence: We / took / train / to / Jaipur. / a
- 17.She ___ a beautiful rangoli on Diwali. (a) make (b) made (c) makes
- 18.I ___ my homework last night. (a) do (b) does (c) did
- 19.🚂 What is this? (a) temple (b) train (c) letter (d) fireworks
- 20.Make a sentence: took / We / Jaipur. / a / train / to
- 21.Which sentence says “We took a train to Jaipur.”? (a) Yesterday, I watched a funny film. (b) We took a train to Jaipur. (c) Grandmother made sweets for everyone.
- 22.Which sentence says “Grandmother made sweets for everyone.”? (a) Yesterday, I watched a funny film. (b) Last week, we went to the beach. (c) Grandmother made sweets for everyone.
- 23.We ___ a lot of photos at the zoo. (a) take (b) taken (c) took
- 24.Make a sentence: to / We / took / Jaipur. / a / train
- 25.Make a sentence: on / diyas / Diwali / lit / We / night.
- 26.Make a sentence: made / for / everyone. / Grandmother / sweets
- 27.Make a sentence: on / Diwali / We / diyas / lit / night.
- 28.Make a sentence: grandmother. / wrote / Riya / her / letter / to / a
- 29.Make a sentence: night. / lit / on / We / diyas / Diwali
- 30.🎆 What is this? (a) sweets (b) film (c) beach (d) fireworks
- 31.Make a sentence: Riya / grandmother. / a / wrote / letter / to / her
- 32.📷 What is this? (a) temple (b) camera (c) fireworks (d) beach
- 33.🧺 What is this? (a) picnic (b) camera (c) temple (d) train
- 34.Make a sentence: everyone. / for / made / sweets / Grandmother
- 35.🍬 What is this? (a) train (b) sweets (c) picnic (d) temple
- 36.Make a sentence: Grandmother / everyone. / made / sweets / for
- 37.🎬 What is this? (a) letter (b) train (c) film (d) sweets
- 38.Make a sentence: made / sweets / Grandmother / everyone. / for
- 39.🛕 What is this? (a) beach (b) letter (c) film (d) temple
- 40.Make a sentence: letter / grandmother. / to / a / Riya / her / wrote
Answer key
- played
- beach
- were
- Last week, we went to the beach.
- We lit diyas on Diwali night.
- We took a train to Jaipur.
- We lit diyas on Diwali night.
- watch
- was
- We took a train to Jaipur.
- Yesterday, I watched a funny film.
- We took a train to Jaipur.
- went
- We lit diyas on Diwali night.
- Riya wrote a letter to her grandmother.
- We took a train to Jaipur.
- made
- did
- train
- We took a train to Jaipur.
- We took a train to Jaipur.
- Grandmother made sweets for everyone.
- took
- We took a train to Jaipur.
- We lit diyas on Diwali night.
- Grandmother made sweets for everyone.
- We lit diyas on Diwali night.
- Riya wrote a letter to her grandmother.
- We lit diyas on Diwali night.
- fireworks
- Riya wrote a letter to her grandmother.
- camera
- picnic
- Grandmother made sweets for everyone.
- sweets
- Grandmother made sweets for everyone.
- film
- Grandmother made sweets for everyone.
- temple
- Riya wrote a letter to her grandmother.
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