LittleActivity vs K5 Learning

A free printable worksheet library for Kindergarten to Grade 5, plus a paid reading and maths programme.

Last updated: 23 August 2026

The short answer

K5 Learning's free worksheets are clean, plentiful and genuinely free — one of the few libraries where the free tier is the main event. It covers Kindergarten to Grade 5 and it is worksheets rather than a programme. LittleActivity's free library is comparable and goes to Grade 10, with the day and the records attached.

Which one is right for you

Choose K5 Learning if

A parent who wants plain, uncluttered, printable maths and reading practice for K–5 and nothing else.

Choose LittleActivity if

A family that wants the same but past Grade 5, with the screen half and the records included.

What each one actually is

What is K5 Learning?

Also known as: K5Learning, k5learning.com

K5 Learning is a free printable worksheet library for Kindergarten to Grade 5, plus a paid reading and maths programme.

Related: Worksheets and printables · K-12 education · Homeschool resources

What is LittleActivity?

Also known as: Little Activity, littleactivity.com

LittleActivity is a free educational platform for children from Pre-K to Grade 10, combining sequenced lessons in ten subjects, thousands of printable worksheets, games, and a homeschool system whose attendance, report cards, portfolio and transcript build themselves from the work a child actually completes.

Related: Homeschool curriculum · Printable worksheets · K-12 education · Common Core Standards

K5 Learning vs LittleActivity, feature by feature

Twenty-four features in five groups. A dash means we have not established that row from their own public pages — it is not a “no”, and we would rather show the gap than guess at it.

Getting started and cost

What it takes to see the thing before you pay for it.

Getting started and cost: K5 Learning compared with LittleActivity
Feature	K5 Learning	LittleActivity
Usable free, with no accountCan a parent open it and use real content without signing up?	Yes	Yes
Card required to startA card taken up front turns a trial into an opt-out subscription.	No	No
Price published on their own siteA price you have to reach checkout to see is a price you cannot compare.	Not established	Yes
Charged per childDecides whether a second or third child doubles the bill.	Not established	No
Adverts shown to childrenIncluding house ads and upsell interstitials mid-activity.	Yes	No

What it covers

How far it goes before your child ages out of it.

What it covers: K5 Learning compared with LittleActivity
Feature	K5 Learning	LittleActivity
Grade rangeThe span the vendor claims on its own site.	Kindergarten to Grade 5	Pre-K to Grade 10
SubjectsWhat is actually taught, not what is mentioned.	Maths and reading, with some science and vocabulary	Maths, reading, writing, science, social studies, art, music, coding, languages, critical thinking, money
Real Pre-K contentActivities a child who cannot yet read can do alone.	Limited	Yes
Grade 6 and aboveThe point most early-learning products stop.	No	Yes
Standards alignment publishedMatters for reporting in most US states.	Not established	Yes

How it teaches

Whether it decides what happens today, or hands you a catalogue.

How it teaches: K5 Learning compared with LittleActivity
Feature	K5 Learning	LittleActivity
Plans the school day for youThe difference between a curriculum and a content library.	No	Yes
Sequenced, not browse-it-yourselfLessons that build on each other in a fixed order.	No	Yes
Per-subject placementA child ahead in reading and behind in maths is the normal case.	No	Yes
Video instructionA person explaining, rather than a screen of practice items.	No	No
Live human teachingScheduled classes with a real teacher.	No	No

Off the screen

What is left on the days the tablet is not the answer.

Off the screen: K5 Learning compared with LittleActivity
Feature	K5 Learning	LittleActivity
Printable worksheetsReal PDFs, not a web page you send to a printer.	Large free library	5,947 free PDFs
Off-screen work for every school dayAn authored task per day, not an occasional printable.	No	2,160 authored days
Printable wall chartsReference material for the wall behind the desk.	No	600 wall charts
A full day can run on paperFor a broken tablet, a car journey, or a screen-time limit.	Yes	Yes

Records and classroom

The paperwork, and whether it writes itself.

Records and classroom: K5 Learning compared with LittleActivity
Feature	K5 Learning	LittleActivity
Attendance logRequired by law in a number of US states.	No	Yes
Report cardsGenerated from work done, not typed by a parent.	No	Yes
Portfolio of workFor states that require an annual review.	No	Yes
High-school transcriptThe document a college admissions office asks for.	No	Yes
Run a class with no student accountsNo roster upload, no email address per child.	No	Yes

What K5 Learning does better, and what we do instead

K5 Learning against LittleActivity

Pros

Very clean, distraction-free worksheet design with no illustration clutter
A large free library that genuinely does not require an account
Well-structured reading comprehension passages with matched question sets
Clear, conventional maths worksheets that look like what a school would send home

Cons

Coverage to Grade 10 rather than Grade 5
Every subject, not maths and reading
Games, lessons and stories in the same place as the printables
A planned school day with an authored off-screen task for each day
Homeschool records that build themselves from the work done

The left column is what K5 Learning is genuinely better at. The right column is not a list of their faults — it is what we do that they do not attempt. A product is allowed to not do something.

Pricing

We have not been able to read K5 Learning’s current pricing from their live pages, so we are not going to quote it — see their own page. Ours is on our pricing page, before you sign up for anything.

Stay with K5 Learning if…

You want plain K–5 maths and reading worksheets and nothing more. They do that well and they do it free.

Move to LittleActivity if…

Your child is past Grade 5, or you want the worksheets to be part of a plan rather than a folder of downloads.

The one structural difference

Most families run a content product, a separate planner, and a spreadsheet for records, and nothing in that stack is the system of record. LittleActivity is one system: the same work that teaches your child produces the attendance, the report card, the portfolio and the transcript, and every school day has an authored off-screen task so a broken tablet does not end the day.

In numbers: 5,947 free printable PDFs and 2,160 authored off-screen school days, both counted from the catalogues themselves and checked in our build rather than written by hand.

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How this comparison was made

Their claims are theirs. Grade range, subjects and product shape are taken from what K5 Learning says about itself on its own public pages, linked above.
Prices are gated. A price appears only with the date a person read it on the vendor’s own page. Most pricing pages in this market render client-side and cannot be checked automatically, so most of these comparisons quote no price at all rather than repeat one that may be a year old.
Our numbers are generated. Printable, poster and school-day counts come from the catalogues they describe and are verified in our build, so a marketing round number cannot creep in.
A dash is not a cross. Where we have not established a row, the table shows a dash. We do not score a competitor down for something we did not check.
We are not neutral. This page is written by one of the two products. That is why it leads with what K5 Learning does better and names who should stay with it — judge the page on whether those sections are real.

LittleActivity vs K5 Learning: common questions

Which has more free worksheets, K5 Learning or LittleActivity?

Both libraries run to thousands of free sheets. The difference is span: K5 Learning covers Kindergarten to Grade 5 in maths and reading, while ours runs Pre-K to Grade 10 across literacy, maths, science, art and crafts. For K–5 maths practice specifically, K5 Learning is excellent and free.

Does LittleActivity have reading comprehension passages?

Yes, with matched question sets, and they are authored for the topic rather than substituted with a generic organiser. That distinction is checked automatically in our build, because it is the failure mode that quietly ruins worksheet libraries.

Is K5 Learning's paid programme worth it over LittleActivity?

We have not re-read their current pricing, so we will not compare figures. Structurally their paid programme is adaptive maths and reading practice for K–5; ours is a planned day across every subject to Grade 10 with records attached. Those are different purchases.

Are both sites ad-free?

LittleActivity carries no advertising anywhere, including on the free printables. K5 Learning's free pages carry advertising, which is how the free library is funded.

Should I choose LittleActivity or K5 Learning?

Choose K5 Learning if: A parent who wants plain, uncluttered, printable maths and reading practice for K–5 and nothing else. Choose LittleActivity if: A family that wants the same but past Grade 5, with the screen half and the records included. Both are real answers — the deciding question is usually whether you want one subject or one tool done well, or the whole school day planned, printed and recorded.

How much does K5 Learning cost compared with LittleActivity?

We have not been able to read K5 Learning's current pricing from their live pages and check it, so we do not quote a figure — see their own site for it. LittleActivity's price is published on our pricing page before you sign up, it is one family price rather than a charge per child, and the games, printables and lessons are free with no account.

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