About this site

CH!IKU Printablesgives away printable practice worksheets for young children, free of charge. It is made by a Japanese writer living in Taiwan (Iku — Sato Iku), and it started when his own child took to coloring and drawing lines. The same worksheets are published in Japanese, Traditional Chinese and English.

Please let them draw freely

There is one request that comes with these sheets:please let your child draw freely.

It is fine if they can’t do it. It is fine if they pick colors that look wrong to an adult. A green sky, a purple cat — that is the color that child is seeing. Going outside the lines is fine. Using only one color is fine. Stopping halfway, or turning the sheet over and starting a drawing of their own on the back, is fine too.

That is why the note for grown-ups printed on every sheet says“please don’t correct going outside the line”. Holding the pencil and keeping going to the end leaves more behind than a tidy result. Some sheets do have a right answer — counting, finding the odd one out — but if the child can point to it, a wobbly circle is not a problem.

Each sheet carries a rough age such as “around 2–3”, butyou really don’t have to worry about it. An older child may enjoy an easy sheet; a younger one may want to attempt a hard one. The age is there as a way in when it isn’t obvious where to start — not a standard to keep to.

Print whatever your child likes. Trains if they love trains, cats if they love cats. If that gives the two of you some time in front of the same sheet, this site has done its job.

How we work

• Everything is free, with no sign-up. There is nowhere on this site to type an email address or a name.
• One download is one sheet (A4, single sided). Print only what you need.
• Ages are written as a guide only. We never write “a child of X should be able to”. Children of the same age can do different things.
• We make no claims about learning outcomes. Instead of unprovable benefits like “builds concentration”, we only describe what a sheet gives practice at.

About the worksheets

1051 sheets are published so far. Every PDF passes an automated check before it goes live: true A4 size, one page per file, at least 10mm of margin all round, at least 80% white space (so it does not use much ink), and under 10MB per file (within the limit for convenience-store printing). Scissor sheets are designed so that the pieces cut out stay at least 30mm across, to keep them from being swallowed.

The worksheets are in Japanese and Traditional Chinese

Sheet titles and the note for grown-ups are printed in English as well. Words inside the activity itself — the hiragana, the zhuyin, the words on the matching sheets — stay in Japanese or Traditional Chinese. Everything else (drawing lines, coloring, mazes, dot-to-dots, cutting, counting) needs no reading at all.

Every sheet is measured before it goes out

Before a sheet is published it is turned back into what it will look like on paper and measured again: is the page really A4, does the margin stay above 10mm all round, is at least 80% of it white (so it doesn’t drink ink), does the file stay under the limit for convenience-store printing. If any one of those is off, the sheet is not published.

The measurements are not guesses. “The path is 20mm wide”, “the boxes are 25mm square”, “pieces cut out with scissors stay above 30mm, so they cannot be swallowed” — each number has a reason behind it. That is why sheets of the same kind don’t drift apart in size.

The site itself is checked the same way: 203 separate conditions — broken links, the wrong language on a page, horizontal scrolling on a phone — every time before anything goes live.

Why we stopped counting sheets

In August 2026 the collection reached 849 sheets, and then 288 of them were deleted. Comparing the count against other sites had turned into piling up sheets whose numbers differed only slightly. On a sheet of A4, a 3mm difference is invisible; those were the same sheet twice.

The test now is whether a sheet looks like a different sheet when the whole list is laid out. When a difficulty ladder is built, only one thing is allowed to change between steps. Having each sheet be genuinely different matters more than having many of them.

What we don’t do

• No character artwork. Drawings resembling existing works raise rights problems.
• No diagnosis and no therapy advice.I am not a childcare, medical or psychology professional. If something about your child’s development concerns you, please talk to your doctor or your local service.
• No email addresses collected. There is no sign-up and no consent checkbox in front of a download.

Credits

• Worksheets and layout: Worksheets, illustrations and layout © Iku (Sato Iku)　|　Fonts: Klee One © 2020 The Klee Project Authors, Iansui (both SIL OFL 1.1)
• The typeface “Klee One” is used under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Contact

Commercial use enquiries and corrections: kids@ikuchannel.com