Shapes - Preschool & Kindergarten

Shapes

Shapes Preschool Kindergarten

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Art

Color on Paper
Need: pairs of shapes cut from construction paper, crayons or markers.

Place a shape from each pair on a table. Give each child a paper cut in a shape. Have the child go to the table and find its mate. Children then can draw on their shape papers.

Shape Mobiles
Need: cardboard and paper shapes, crayons, scissors, yarn, tape, hole puncher.

Cut yarn into strings. Knot one end of each piece of string and tape the other to make a needle. Children can punch holes in the shapes and string them for hanging. Children may wish to use the cardboard cutouts to trace more shapes

Matching Shapes
Need: 1 large shape and smaller shapes cut from construction paper, glue.

Give each child a paper cut in a large shape. Place out different small shapes. Have the children find shapes that matches the large shape they have. Children then glue the smaller shapes onto their large shape.

Story Video

Mouse Shapes
by Ellen Stoll Walsh

Shape Imagination Creations
Need: paper shapes of squares, circles, triangles

Give each child a cutout of circles, squares, and triangles. Show examples of how a circle can become a wheel or how a triangle can become a tree. Ask children to use their imaginations and create pictures by combining a variety of shapes.

Roll A Mouse pdf

Bulletin Boards

Remembering The Shapes
Needed:: 8 or more colored (depending on how many shapes you want them to learn) pieces of construction paper. Marker --- to label the shapes and their names.

Cut out each shape big enough to put up around the room. Shapes --- circle, oval, rectangle, triangle, square, diamond, heart, octagon, etc.

Cut out the shapes from large sheets of construction paper. Label the shapes with names such as (teddy the triangle, olivia the oval, etc)

The children will begin to recognize the shapes by the names.
Contributed by: Ms Kelly

Group Time

Circle Time Shape

Each month place tape on the circle time rug in a different shape. One month you sit in a circle, the next month it could be a square...
Note: Masking tape children can pick at and tear. Postal tape works better and is hard for a child to pick at and tear.

Shape Sort
Need: poster board in red, blue, yellow (can use construction paper)

From red poster board cut out:
1 large circle, 1 medium size square, 1 small triangle.
From blue poster board cut out:
1 large square, 1 medium sized triangle, 1 small circle.
From yellow poster board cut out:
1 large triangle, 1 medium sized circle, 1 small square.
Mix up the shapes and lay them out on a table or on the floor. Let the children take turns sorting the shapes into piles by color, by size and then by shape.

Folding Shapes
Need: Cutouts of various geometric shapes, cutouts of some shapes folded in half.

Set out all shapes on a table. Then let children examine folded shapes (ask children not to unfold them). Point out that all folded shapes have a straight line and ask children to point to one. Encourage children to match folded shapes to the complete shapes.

Felt Material Shapes

Trace the shapes out first and pour rice or beans inside the shape glue or staple and you got a mini bean bag shape.
Contributed By: Mary

Science

What Shape Is It?

Place objects with distinct shapes in the feely box (such as marbles, dice, pyramid, deck of cards, book, ball, button,etc). Encourage children to reach in and identify the shape of the object they are feeling before they pull it out.

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