What's Missing with Fruits

This Kindergarten worksheet is a what-is-missing puzzle with fruit: a piece is cut from the picture, and the child chooses the one that completes it. Imagining what belongs in the gap — the absent part of the an apple, a banana and a pear — builds the part-from-whole reasoning young children develop by completing broken pictures. It is a hands-on puzzle, ready to print or play online, with nothing to count.

Finding what is gone asks a child to imagine a picture as it should be, then spot the part that is absent. Holding the whole image in mind and recognising the gap is early inference — reasoning from what is present to what is missing — and a fruit picture keeps it hands-on. The child pictures the complete image, finds the gap, and chooses the piece that makes it whole again.

Children love finding the piece that makes a picture whole again, and completing the puzzle feels satisfying. When this is easy, find the missing piece in what's missing with furniture, or try what's missing with everyday objects. You can also browse every missing-piece puzzle or the whole kindergarten collection — each sheet prints cleanly or plays online for free, and the more pictures a child completes, the sharper their eye grows for what is missing and what it takes to make a picture whole again.