Grid Coordinates on a 6x6 Grid: Color the Squares

The grid on this 2nd grade grid-coordinates page is six squares by six, lettered A to F along the top and numbered 1 to 6 down the side, and it starts completely empty. Beside it sits a small worked example, a three-by-three grid with one square shaded and B2 printed underneath, so the child sees what a code means before reading any. The key below the grid is short: a yellow swatch followed by twenty code chips, B1, D5, E4 and the rest, and an orange swatch followed by a single chip, E2. Find each square, color it, and a picture appears.

Thirty-six squares is a grid a second grader can hold in view, and that is what makes this the version to start on. The letters run only as far as F, so the across-then-down habit gets built on a short alphabet, and a misread code shows up quickly because there is nowhere for a wrong square to hide. The lone orange chip is worth pointing out: one square in a second color is usually the detail that makes the picture readable, an eye or a spot, and a child who colors it yellow by mistake will see the difference immediately.

Print the PDF free and have the child cross off each chip as its square is filled, since the codes are shuffled rather than ordered and skipping one is the easiest mistake to make. The classic error is reading B2 as row B, column 2, which puts squares in the wrong half of the grid and bends the picture out of shape. The 10x10 version keeps the same rules over a hundred squares with about thirty codes. Copy the grid picture is the kindergarten ancestor of this page, where squares are matched by position without any codes at all.