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Preschool Shape Learning Guide

1. The document provides 11 methods for teaching basic shapes to preschoolers, including using classroom decorations, storytelling with shape-themed books, watching educational videos, going on shape scavenger hunts, playing hopscotch and collecting shapes. 2. It recommends materials like basic shape flashcards, tracing and matching worksheets, and a Japanese card game called Karuta to reinforce shape recognition. 3. Additional tips are to have children sort objects by shape, build and mold with play dough, paint with shape stencils, bake cookies in shapes, and draw pictures using only basic shapes.

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Preschool Shape Learning Guide

1. The document provides 11 methods for teaching basic shapes to preschoolers, including using classroom decorations, storytelling with shape-themed books, watching educational videos, going on shape scavenger hunts, playing hopscotch and collecting shapes. 2. It recommends materials like basic shape flashcards, tracing and matching worksheets, and a Japanese card game called Karuta to reinforce shape recognition. 3. Additional tips are to have children sort objects by shape, build and mold with play dough, paint with shape stencils, bake cookies in shapes, and draw pictures using only basic shapes.

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How To Teach Basic Shapes

1. Introduce shapes through classroom decors

Prior to teaching basic shapes, you may already display shapes flashcards on
your classroom wall.

Place basic shapes flashcards in high traffic corners at children’s eye level for
maximum exposure. Seeing those “instructional materials” on display
everyday can be an indirect way of teaching them.

2. Do storytelling

I highly recommend the following story books for children:

 Big Box of Shapes by Wiley Blevins


 When A Line Bends, A Shapes Begins by Rhonda Gowled Greene
 Shape by Shape by Suse MacDonald
3. Watch educational videos

My preschoolers’ favourite is the Fables by Shapes Folktales From Around


The World.

Beloved children’s stories are retold using colourful shapes that cleverly form
animals and objects.

4. Go on a shapes hunt

Cut out shapes out of paper and have fun searching your house/ school for
objects that match the shapes.

5. Play hopscotch

Draw shapes on the ground and play hopscotch as usual.

Level up by challenging your child to only land on specific shapes.

6. Be a shape collector

Ask your child to gather different objects and sort them into piles according to
shapes.
7. Mold, Build and Make

Form different shapes using play dough, blocks, sand and other materials

8. Paint with Shapes

Cut out shapes out of foam and do painting or stamping.

9. Bake a shape

Bake your favourite cookie recipe and have your child form the dough into
shapes.

10. Draw a picture

Ask your child to draw a picture using basic shapes only.

11. Play card games

Karuta is one of my favourite card games to play with my preschoolers. It’s an


old Japanese card game with the goal of collecting as many cards as you
can.

How To Play Karuta

1. Prepare game cards based on your topic (e.g. fruits, shapes, colors,
etc…)
2. Spread all the cards face up on a flat surface between the players.
3. Teacher calls out a word.
4. Students race each other to grab the correct card.
5. Repeat steps 3 and 4 until no cards remain.
6. Whoever has the most cards wins!
Materials for Teaching Basic Shapes
 Basic Shapes Flashcards

This flashcards set features the following: circle, triangle, square, rectangle,
diamond, oval, heart, and star.

 Tracing Worksheets

These worksheets are great as pre-writing activity.

 Matching Shapes Worksheets




Test your child’s shapes recognition skills through this matching set.

 Cut and Match Shapes


If your child is ready for a more challenging activity which involves scissors,
then this one’s right up his alley.

 Counting Shapes

Help your child master counting and shapes through this pen and paper
activity.

 Patterns and Shapes




Check if your child can identify, complete and extend patterns with this
preschool free printable.

 Shapes Game Cards


Have fun with your child while learning about basic shapes through a card
game using these karuta game cards.
That’s it! Hopefully you learned something about how to teach basic shapes to
preschoolers in this post. I have tried all the activities that I mentioned here
and I can vouch that they work!

And I also hope that you find the materials that I compiled helpful. May these
free worksheets and flashcards help your child learn about basic shapes.

Again, learning should be fun. That’s why I have suggested varied activities
here to choose from.

But I’ve also found pen and paper activities as effective tools for learning.

Always remember that worksheets are just supplementary materials. If your


goal is to just keep your child busy for the sake of being “occupied” then
you’re probably doing it wrong. Of course, I trust that you know
better.

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