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Simple basic shapes for kids9/15/2023 Gruffalo Themed Shape Animals (Educators’ Spin on It) – Exploring shapes with young children can be such fun when you involve a few animal friends from The Gruffalo.Ģ4. It also makes a terrific STEAM project including a bit of art and design too.Ģ3. Geometric Shapes Math Activity (Little Bins for Little Hands) – This simple geometric shapes activity for kids is easy to do at home or as a math center in school. Finding Shapes at the Playground (Buggy and Buddy)- Just print out the free shape hunt printable and go searching for shapes at the playground with this fun geometry activity for children!Ģ2. Learning Shapes by Rolling a Ball (Hands On As We Grow) – Try a fun hands on activity for toddlers for a creative twist to learn shapes!Ģ1. Exploring Shapes with Blocks on a Table Top (Teach Preschool) – A simple and engaging exploration of shapes and colors!Ģ0. Hunting for Shapes (Teach Preschool) -Explore shapes with a fun and interactive game!ġ9. Tracing Shapes on the Flannel Board (Teach Preschool) – A wonderful way to introduce letters and shapes while building pre-writing skills!ġ8. Games and Activities for Teaching Shapes (Prekinders) – Here are a fun few ways to teaching shapes, like shape bingo and a memory game.ġ7. “I Have Who Has” Shapes Game (Prekinders) – You may have seen the “I Have, Who Has” card games circulating the internet a lot lately, so this is a fun twist for Pre-K to teach shapes.ġ6. Shapes Word Chart (Pre-K Pages) – This word chart focused on shapes but you can make a word chart for any topic.ġ5. Combine the two together and you have a lesson on shapes.ġ4. Make a Tortilla Shape Snack (Pre-K Pages) – We have the perfect recipe for exploring a math concept. The mice in the book explore shapes so, why shouldn’t we?ġ3. Shape Exploration (Pre-K Pages) – After reading the wonderful book Mouse Shapes by Ellen Walsh, I thought it would be fun to make a mouse that could be used in a shape game. Shape Wands (Pre-K Pages) – Make some shape wands and turn your home or classroom into the perfect place for kids to learn and identify shapes.ġ2. The Shape of Things Chalk Drawings (Pre-K Pages) – Shapes are found, identified, and drawn in all preschool classrooms! Discovering just how often circles, squares, and triangles occur in our everyday life make them relevant to children.ġ1. They will also immediately want to run outside for their very own shapes scavenger hunt in nature!ġ0. Nature Shape Scavenger Hunt (Pre-K Pages) – A Star in My Orange is a great way to reinforce shape recognition with your preschoolers. I also wrote some very simple 3D shape songs for you that incorporate hands on learning keep reading to download the 3D shapes printable song charts.ĩ. Teaching 3D Shapes (Pre-K Pages) – Here are some of my favorite ideas for teaching 3D shapes to young children in pre-k or kindergarten. Building Shapes with Craft Sticks (Pre-K Pages) – Pair this activity with the book Shapes, Shapes, Shapes by Tana Hoban and you’ve got the perfect low-prep shapes lesson!Ĩ. It goes perfectly with the book and would be an excellent addition to a shapes unit.ħ. Perfect Square Shapes Art (Pre-K Pages) – This Perfect Square art activity is so easy to set up and totally open-ended. Using this book, we went on a shape scavenger hunt and made a fun shape keepsake.Ħ. Create a Shapes Photo Book (Pre-K Pages) – To introduce shape concepts to my son, I grabbed the book So Many Circles, So Many Squares from our library as the anchor to our learning ship. Making Shapes with Geoboards (Pre-K Pages) – If you haven’t tried geoboard activities in your classroom yet, your kids are going to love them!ĥ. Pattern Block Shapes (Pre-K Pages) – Pattern blocks can actually help your little learners build a strong foundation for learning geometry later.Ĥ. Making Shapes with Play Dough (Pre-K Pages) – A fun, hands-on playful learning experience that uses play dough to teach shapes!ģ. Road Shapes with Cars (Pre-K Pages) – 22 printable road shape mats to help your litte learners identify shapes.Ģ. These shape activities for toddlers, will work in your preschool classroom and your kindergarten classroom.ġ. These activities will help your preschoolers learn their shapes. This collection of shape activities for preschoolers can lead preschoolers to explore shapes in all kinds of ways. They learn the names of shapes and their characteristics. They begin to distinguish among the different shapes and categorize items according to shape. One of the first math concepts that preschoolers learn is identifying shapes.
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