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.Make a sentence: lit / night. / on / We / diyas / Diwali
- 2.🍬 What is this? (a) train (b) letter (c) sweets (d) fireworks
- 3.She ___ a beautiful rangoli on Diwali. (a) make (b) makes (c) made
- 4.We ___ cricket last Sunday. (a) played (b) play (c) plays
- 5.They ___ at home yesterday. (a) was (b) are (c) were
- 6.Make a sentence: train / took / a / to / Jaipur. / We
- 7.✉️ What is this? (a) film (b) sweets (c) letter (d) fireworks
- 8.Yesterday, I ___ to the market. (a) goes (b) went (c) go
- 9.🪔 What is this? (a) sweets (b) train (c) letter (d) diya
- 10.Make a sentence: lit / Diwali / on / night. / diyas / We
- 11.I ___ my homework last night. (a) did (b) does (c) do
- 12.Which sentence says “We took a train to Jaipur.”? (a) Yesterday, I watched a funny film. (b) Last week, we went to the beach. (c) We took a train to Jaipur.
- 13.🚂 What is this? (a) train (b) camera (c) temple (d) letter
- 14.Make a sentence: night. / Diwali / We / diyas / on / lit
- 15.Make a sentence: Riya / letter / grandmother. / wrote / to / a / her
- 16.Arjun ___ very happy last week. (a) is (b) was (c) were
- 17.Make a sentence: diyas / We / night. / lit / on / Diwali
- 18.Make a sentence: a / to / took / train / We / Jaipur.
- 19.We ___ a lot of photos at the zoo. (a) taken (b) take (c) took
- 20.Did you ___ the film? (a) watched (b) watches (c) watch
- 21.Make a sentence: night. / diyas / lit / We / Diwali / on
- 22.🏖️ What is this? (a) beach (b) film (c) fireworks (d) sweets
- 23.Make a sentence: grandmother. / a / to / wrote / letter / Riya / her
- 24.Which sentence says “Yesterday, I watched a funny film.”? (a) Last week, we went to the beach. (b) Yesterday, I watched a funny film. (c) We lit diyas on Diwali night.
- 25.Make a sentence: We / on / diyas / night. / lit / Diwali
- 26.Make a sentence: letter / grandmother. / to / a / her / wrote / Riya
- 27.📷 What is this? (a) film (b) train (c) diya (d) camera
- 28.Make a sentence: Diwali / We / night. / on / lit / diyas
- 29.Make a sentence: made / for / Grandmother / sweets / everyone.
- 30.Make a sentence: sweets / for / made / everyone. / Grandmother
- 31.🧺 What is this? (a) fireworks (b) letter (c) picnic (d) beach
- 32.Make a sentence: a / We / Jaipur. / took / train / to
- 33.Make a sentence: Grandmother / made / for / everyone. / sweets
- 34.Make a sentence: to / grandmother. / Riya / letter / her / a / wrote
- 35.Make a sentence: to / a / letter / grandmother. / wrote / Riya / her
- 36.Which sentence says “Last week, we went to the beach.”? (a) Yesterday, I watched a funny film. (b) Last week, we went to the beach. (c) We took a train to Jaipur.
- 37.Make a sentence: on / We / Diwali / diyas / night. / lit
- 38.Which sentence says “Riya wrote a letter to her grandmother.”? (a) We took a train to Jaipur. (b) Yesterday, I watched a funny film. (c) Riya wrote a letter to her grandmother.
- 39.Make a sentence: lit / We / Diwali / on / night. / diyas
- 40.Make a sentence: on / diyas / We / night. / lit / Diwali
Answer key
- We lit diyas on Diwali night.
- sweets
- made
- played
- were
- We took a train to Jaipur.
- letter
- went
- diya
- We lit diyas on Diwali night.
- did
- We took a train to Jaipur.
- train
- We lit diyas on Diwali night.
- Riya wrote a letter to her grandmother.
- was
- We lit diyas on Diwali night.
- We took a train to Jaipur.
- took
- watch
- We lit diyas on Diwali night.
- beach
- Riya wrote a letter to her grandmother.
- Yesterday, I watched a funny film.
- We lit diyas on Diwali night.
- Riya wrote a letter to her grandmother.
- camera
- We lit diyas on Diwali night.
- Grandmother made sweets for everyone.
- Grandmother made sweets for everyone.
- picnic
- We took a train to Jaipur.
- Grandmother made sweets for everyone.
- Riya wrote a letter to her grandmother.
- Riya wrote a letter to her grandmother.
- Last week, we went to the beach.
- We lit diyas on Diwali night.
- Riya wrote a letter to her grandmother.
- We lit diyas on Diwali night.
- We lit diyas on Diwali night.
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