Highway Shapes
Go to makinglearningfun.com and download highway shapes. Place shapes in clear sheet protectors. Children can take small cars and drive over the shapes. They can also trace the shapes with a dry erase marker and then erase.
Shape Hunt
Fold two sheets of paper in half and staple. Children decorate the front of their book with shapes. Next, they walk around the room and draw shapes that they see. Can they label the shapes?
*This would be a good homework activity to help children be more aware of the shapes around their home.
Play Dough Book
Draw lines, curves, and geometric shapes with a marker on file folders. Laminate. Bind file folders with rings to make a book. Children roll play dough and place it on top of the shapes.
Bendables
Offer children pipe cleaners, Wikki stix, etc. and challenge them to make various shapes with the items.
Flat or Solid?
Place flat and solid objects in lunch bags. Number the bags. Children number their page for the number of bags that you are using. They reach in each bag, feel it, and then write if it is 2-D or 3-D.
I Spy
Fill a plastic bottle half full with sand or salt. Insert shapes and shake. Children identify shapes and then draw what they find.
Pretzel Shapes
Give children pretzel sticks and pretzel twists and challenge them to make geometric shapes. How many pretzel sticks will you need to make a hexagon? How many pretzel sticks will you need to make a triangle?
*It's also fun to make letters or numerals with pretzels.Toothpick Sculptures
Give children toothpicks and play dough. What flat and solid shapes can they create?
Little to Large
Make a very small shape (triangle, square, trapezoid, half-circle, etc.) in the
center of a sheet of paper. Children take different colors of crayons and to
around the shape, making it a little larger each time until it completely fills
the page.
