Printable worksheet for children to practice writing the past tense of regular verbs, featuring illustrated examples.

Let’s go step by step to find the past tense of each regular verb.

Regular verbs usually form their past tense by adding -ed at the end. But sometimes, we need to make small changes:

- If the verb ends in e, just add d.
- If the verb ends in a consonant + y, change y to i and add ed.
- If it’s one syllable and ends with vowel + consonant (like “hug”), double the last letter and add ed.

Now let’s do each word:

1. crawl → ends with ‘l’, not special → add -ed → crawled
2. walk → ends with ‘k’ → add -ed → walked
3. shout → ends with ‘t’ → add -ed → shouted
4. brush → ends with ‘sh’ → add -ed → brushed
5. play → ends with ‘y’, but before ‘y’ is a vowel (‘a’) → so just add -ed → played
6. hug → one syllable, ends with vowel + consonant → double the ‘g’ and add -ed → hugged
7. kick → ends with ‘ck’ → add -ed → kicked
8. cook → ends with ‘k’ → add -ed → cooked

All these are regular verbs, so they follow the pattern above.

Final Answer:
crawled
walked
shouted
brushed
played
hugged
kicked
cooked