What's Missing with Summer

Find the missing piece! On this Kindergarten worksheet a picture of summer things has a piece missing, and the child picks the cutout that completes it. The task is to picture the whole image, see the gap, and choose what restores it. Completing a picture this way — imagining the the sun, an ice cream and a beach ball as they should be — builds early inference, and the familiar pictures keep it inviting.

Spotting a missing piece asks a child to compare the broken picture against the whole it should be — to single out the one part that is absent. That whole-versus-part reasoning is early visual inference, grown by puzzling it out, and a summer things picture gives a young learner clear practice. The child holds the complete image in mind, locates the gap, and fills it back in.

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 thanksgiving, or try what's missing with trees. 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.