Using shapes to make a picture

Practice recognizing and counting basic geometric shapes with this printable worksheet. How many shapes do you see in this picture?

Use the Basic Geometric Shapes Printable Chart to play shape recognition activities or display on a classroom wall. This colorful chart shows a picture of the basic shapes: square, circle, triangle, diamond, oval, rectangle, star and heart.

Mix math and art together with these math art project ideas. With this hands-on art project, kids create pictures only using 2D shapes.

After your toddlers or preschoolers have already familiar with recognizing and drawing 2D shapes, it is a good time to introduce 3D (three-dimensional) shapes to them. Download this Printable 3D Shapes Chart for Free and get many Fun Activities Ideas to teach and play with your children.

Teaching shapes to kindergarten is part of many standards based curriculums. I wanted to share creative ways for teaching 2D shapes in kindergarten.

If mice can teach colors, why not shapes? In her book Mouse Shapes, Ellen Stoll Walsh covers basic shapes while spinning a delightful story of three mice and their struggles to avoid a cat. In the book, the three mice discover a pile of shapes and use them to build all sorts of different objects, eventually creating three huge mice to scare away the scaredy-cat. For our craft I pulled out our trusty construction paper and cut out seven circles and one triangle to make some giant mice of our…

I had never heard of this book before but saw it pinned on Pinterest and instantly fell in love with it before even reading it. The pin came from a lovely blog called Little Page

Print, cut out and laminate these cards for children to place clothes pegs on the shape pictures that match the 2D shape in the centre.

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HOW adorable is this? Time to start a new preschool year with these!