What's Missing with Things That Fly

This Kindergarten worksheet is a what-is-missing puzzle with flying things: 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 a kite, a plane and a balloon — 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 the missing piece trains a child to detect absence — to look at a whole picture, sense that something is gone, and work out exactly what. That noticing-what-is-absent is a genuine reasoning skill, built by completing broken pictures, and a flying things picture makes it approachable. The child pictures the complete image and restores the part that is missing.

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 tools, or try what's missing with vehicles. 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.