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Find the Shape
Find different shapes in the house, school, outside, in buildings,
stores,
grocery stores, signs, etc. Name the shape after you find it.
Matching Shapes Game
Age Level: Toddlers through Early Elementary Grades
Each child takes a turn placing a small shape on top of the matching
larger shape. For variation, make the same shapes on
different colors of paper, and have the children match by color instead
of by shape.
Make a Shape
Added 4/6/05
Using flat ended toothpicks, craft sticks, straws (cut them smaller),
etc. have a child create various shapes (e.g triangle (3 sides), square
/ rectangle (4 sides), pentagon (5 sides), hexagon (6 sides), heptagon
(7 sides), octagon (8 sides), etc. If you use toothpicks, you can
have the child glue it onto a piece of paper.
What Shape Am I?
Copyright 2000, 2005 Barbara Pratt. All rights reserved.
Grade Level: Preschool through Early Elementary
I am thinking of a shape. It is a rectangle
with all four sides equal.
What am I? (A square).
I am thinking of a shape that has three sides and
three corners
What am I? (A triangle, etc.).
I am thinking of a shape that has no sides and no
corners
What am I? (A circle).
I am thinking of a shape that has two sides that are
shorter than the other two sides, and they have right angles.
What am I? (A rectangle).
I am thinking of a shape that has five points.
What am I? (A star).
I am thinking of a shape that looks like my face,
but it is longer than a circle.
What am I? (An oval).
I Have A Shape
Copyright 2000 Pratt's Educational Resources for Teachers &
Parents.
All rights reserved.
Grade Level: Preschool through Early Elementary
from: my sister, Donna S.
Rhyme
I have a shape.
I have a shape.
Oh, Can you guess?
Oh, Can you guess?
What shape I have?
Teaching Procedure:
1. Introduce the class to the rhyme by saying
the rhyme several times.
2. Have the class say the rhyme several times
until they know the rhyme.
3. Divide the class into two groups and have
both groups say the rhyme as they use different body movements to
illustrate a certain shape. Have the groups use other
movements as they
make the shape.
Examples: Make a circle by holding hands.
Make a rectangle by standing together in 2 long lines and 2 short lines.
4. Came back as a class to see what each
group came up with.
My Version of I Have A Shape
Copyright 2000 Barbara Pratt. All rights reserved.
(This is great for home schooling since you will not
have enough children to make the shapes. You can use this in the
classroom.)
1. Say the rhyme above while holding in your
hands a shape (the shape can be on paper or blocks). For example,
circle, triangle, rectangle, square, oval, etc.
2. Have the class say the rhyme several times
until they know the rhyme.
3. Ask the children: "What shape do I
have?"
Have the children respond each time you do a different shape.
When
you come to the circle, put your arms above your head to form a
circle.
When you come to the triangle, put your arms above your head and put
your hands together to form a triangle shape. Have the children
do the same thing for these two shapes.
This Is A Shape
Copyright 2000 Barbara Pratt and Donna S. All rights reserved.
Grade Level: Preschool through Early Elementary
This part is from my sister, Donna S.
Rhyme
This is a shape.
This is a shape.
Oh, can you guess?
Oh, can you guess?
What shape this is?
This is a circle.
This is a circle.
Yes, it is a circle.
Because it's round.
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I added these lines:
This is a square.
This is a square.
Yes, it is a square.
Because it's a rectangle with
all four sides equal.
This is a triangle.
This is a triangle.
Yes, it is a triangle.
Because it has three sides and three corners
This is a rectangle.
This is a rectangle.
Yes, it is a rectangle.
Because it has two sides that
are
shorter than the other two sides, and they have right angles.
This is a star.
This is a star.
Yes, it is a star.
Because it has five points.
This is an oval.
This is an oval.
Yes, it is an oval.
Because it looks like my face, but it is longer than a
circle.
Have the children say the rhyme in a steady
beat.
When the children discover what shape it is, they say the rhyme using
the second line, third line, fourth line, etc. Change the rhyme
to include the shapes that the children want to use.
Home Economics: Shape Snacks
Shape Sugar Cookies or Shape Biscuits
Make round, heart, other shaped cookies using cookie cutters or cut
your own shape using a plastic knife.
Use my recipes: sugar
cookies or dairy-free
sugar cookies; biscuits
or df
biscuits.
Shape Sandwiches
Make sandwiches. Cut them into triangles, use a circle, heart,
etc.
cookie cutter, or cut your own shape using a plastic knife.
Music
There Are So
Many Stars
Shape Patterns (Templates)
You can use these shapes from these sites as shape patterns for paper,
felt, etc. You might need to reduce the size of some images.
Basic Shapes -
Math and Numbers @ Brobst Systems Pictures and names of these
shapes (circle, square, triangle,
rectangle, and oval).
Circuit
Board Sculpture Equilateral: Triangle, quadrilateral
(square), pentagon, hexagon
Crayola
Coloring & Activities: Basic Shapes
Label
Simple Shapes Printout - EnchantedLearning
Max Math's
Adventure: Max's Fantastical Zoo You can also use these shapes
(triangle, circle, rectangle, diamond,
square, oval, and star) as shape patterns for paper or felt.
Shape Templates for
primary art projects @ TLS Books
StoryPlace
Pre-school Library: Shapes: Shape Mobile
The
Shapes: A Coloring Book to Print - EnchantedLearning Circle, oval,
triangle, square, rectangle, diamond, star, crescent, heart, pentagon,
octagon, hexagon, cube, cone, pyramid, and sphere.
Misc. Links
Weaving @ Niti.org
Printables
A Kids Heart
- PreSchool -PreKindergarten Activities: Shapes
April's
Preschool Activities Including activities and printables for
shapes. New
4/21/04
Basic
Shapes -
Math and Numbers @ Brobst Systems Pictures and names of these
shapes (circle, square, triangle,
rectangle, and oval).
Basic Shapes
Exercises - Math and Numbers: Print and Learn @ Brobst Systems
Write the correct shape on the lines.
Bry-Back
Manor Activity Pages
Bry-Back
Manor: Butterflies - Circles
Children's
Author & Illustrator Suse MacDonald Sea Shapes Maze, and
Coloring Pages.
Coloring
Pages at PrimaryGames.com: Sammy's Shape Collection (a worm)
Circle, square, triangle, rectangle, star, diamond, and heart.
DLTK-Kids Learning
Our Shapes Section BINGO Game, Coloring pages, The Shapes Buddies
Poem, various crafts,
and shapes mobile (large star, small: square, triangle, and circle).
DLTK's
Search Results for Shapes
Ellie
& Ollie Find Sunken Treasure: Coloring Book Index
Free
Preschool and Kindergarten Worksheets from the Kid's Page Archive
Big, Bigger, Biggest; Trace and Color, Fishy Fun; patterns worksheets,
I'm Learning About Shapes worksheets, and Match the Shapes.
Kids Crafty: Shapes
Different objects for these shapes: circle, heart, oval, rectangle,
star, square, and triangle.
Lil'Fingers
Coloring Pages: Shapes
Little
People Coloring Pages: Shapes
Math
K Pattern Block Game @ Saxon
Parenting
Preschoolers: Preschool Print-Outs Trace, color, and cut out
(triangle and square; rectangle and circle).
Scissor
Skills @ Beautiful Beginnings Daycare Animals, etc.
SchoolExpress: Freeworksheets |
Ages 3 to 6 | Shapes
Sesame
Workshop: Coloring Pages - Shapes
Shape
Worksheets @ Premier Day Care Formation (tracing) and worksheets.
Shape Templates for
primary art projects @ TLS Books
Shapes
Coloring/Activity Page @ Beautiful Beginnings Daycare Pages
for: circles, squares, diamonds, rectangles,
ovals, and triangles.
Teacher
Time Saver: Worksheets It is about 3/4 the way down, under
Art: Geometric coloring sheets, and
more.
Treasures
of the Heart Childcare How many squares; Match the Squares; Square
House (cut and paste); and
a happy triangle (with the word triangle on the page).
Zini's
Activity Page
Shape Activities Links
April's
Preschool Activities Including activities and printables for
shapes. New
4/21/04
ChildFun.com
-
Shapes: Themes and Activities; including songs
Max's Math: Max's Fantastical Zoo @ Scholastic
O
Circles
Science Activities:
Find circles in the room, outside, or look in a mirror at your body.
Games / Physical Education:
Play ball or "Duck, Duck, Goose".
Home Economics / Cooking / Snack:
Make pancakes.
Books:
The Best Mouse Cookie by Laura Numeroff
If You Give A Mouse A Cookie or in Spanish: Si Le Das Una
Galletita a un Ratón by Laura Numeroff
If You Give A Pig A Pancake
by Laura Numeroff
The Very Hungry Caterpillar or in Spanish La oruga muy
hambrienta
by Eric Carle This book book has the moon, sun, and the holes that he
eats in the food are circles.
Circle Songs: Music, Games & Physical
Education:
The Wheels on the Bus
Sing: The
Wheels on
the
Bus or The Wheels On
The
Bus (Animated).
Sing a different version of the song at: The Wheels on
the Bus @ NIEHS
Ring Around The Rosie
#1, #2
Ring Around
the Rosy: French version (lyrics only)
Here are two different versions of the same song.
Sally Go
Round the Sun
Author: unknown
Sally go round the sun,
Sally go round the moon,
Sally go round the chimney top
Every afternoon
Join hands to make a circle. Sing the above words on one
note. After you sing the song once, you can clap your hands
together twice, stomp both of your feet, hit each leg once, or snap
twice (either one hand at a time or both hands twice). Rotate and
go the other way around. (If you like, you can sing a different
note.)
Other Resources
Sally Go Round
the Sun (lyrics and sheet music) and moon
Musical Circles
Place different colors of circles on the floor in a circle or on
chairs.
Have the children go around until the music stops. Continue the
game. Another variation is, when the music stops, each child needs to
tell you what color the circle is (in English and/or Spanish).
Arts & Crafts:
Circle Painting
Have the children paint on a piece of paper using the following
objects: sponge circle, coins, cotton balls, carrots, zuchinni, or
other round
vegetables, etc.
Cooking/Home Economics/Snacks:
Make round sugar
cookies, dairy-free
sugar cookies or any other cookies, biscuits, dairy-free
biscuits, pancakes, dairy-free
pancakes, or a pie (cut it into pieces for fractions).
Snacks: English muffins, bagels, snack crackers
Math:
Measure the the food you make or the snacks you eat.
Links
Shape: Circle @
ChildFun.com
Big
and Little Which circle is the largest...?
Printables
akidsheart.com:
Preschool Printable Activity - Circles Finish drawing the circles
for the flower.
Bry-Back
Manor: Butterflies - Circles
FamilyEducation.com:
Printables Circle Trace (This Little Piggie Went to Market)
Go to Learningpage.com.
Click on "Become A Member" and then sign in. Click on
"Theme
Sheets".
Dinosaur:
Identify a Circle Preschool @ Learningpage.com
Ocean:
Identify a Circle (Preschool) @ Learningpage.com (a pelican)
Zoo:
Identify a Circle (Kindergarten) @ Learningpage.com
Zini's Activity
Page: Shapes Galore
Lil-Fingers
Circle Coloring Page
SchoolExpress.com
| Free Worksheets - Ages 3 to 6 : Shapes
Scissor
Skills: Flowers Pretty & Bright, Mr. Sun, Sometimes I
have trouble viewing the pages.
Sesame
Workshop Circles (Cookie Monster Baking Cookies)
The Very
Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle has a
moon and sun in it.
Oval
Ernie
holding an Oval
Shapes
Coloring/Activity Page "Ovals"
Rectangle
Cut it in half to make two
rectangles.
Home Economics:
Make a sandwich.
Make waffles.
Square
Home Economics:
Cut one of the below into fourths
to
make four squares.
Make a sandwich.
Make waffles.
Triangle
Books:
The Greedy Triangle by Marilyn Burns
Home Economics:
Cut one of the below into fourths
to
make four triangles.
Make a sandwich.
Make waffles.
Math, Reading, & Home Economics Activity: Read the book The
Greedy Triangle. Make a sandwich. Talk about how it can
be divided up in different ways. Cut it up how the children tell
you it can be divided. Give the children a triangle-shaped piece.
Arts & Crafts:
Three Corner Hat
Cut a piece of newspaper (or butcher paper) to be about 14x20 inches
(make it larger for a teenager or an adult). Fold the longer length in
half.
Fold the top corners towards the center (where they join each
other).
Fold the bottoms up. Tape the middles together.
Decorate using kids paints, crayons, markers, water colors, etc.
If you want other hat options, go to: One Way to Make a Paper Hat
Music:
My
Hat, It
Has Three Corners You can sing this sung after making a "Three
Corner
Hat".
(Point to you hat everytime you say the word, "hat".)
Home Economics:
Make turnovers, empanadas
- Google Search, or any other food that has three corners.
You can use my Canned
Fruit Pies: Apple, Cherry, etc. for turnovers. All you have
to do is make circles. Place some filling on the crust.
Fold over, seal, and bake. (I don't know for how long.)
Physical Education (P.E.): Bowl with a bowling set (or plastic bottles)
or go bowling.
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