These Circle Cut Outs will quickly give you templates for classroom decoration or student activities.
This triangle cut outs activity has children sort 12 shape cards and cut out big triangles. Made for Preschool to 2nd Grade, with an answer key included for quick checking.
Children sort shape cards into flat shapes and solid figures in this 2d 3d flat shapes solid figures activity for kindergarten to 2nd grade, with a practice page and answer key included.
This making new shapes activity helps K to 2nd grade students build and name composite shapes with cut-out pieces and self-check cards, answer key included.
This making shapes from shapes activity helps K through 2nd grade students build bigger shapes from triangles, rhombuses, trapezoids and squares. Answer key included.
This apple shape book activity lets K-2nd grade children color, cut out and write their own apple story on cover, picture and writing pages with kid-sized lines.
This matching shapes activity is a partner clue game for 1st and 2nd grade: hear clues about sides, corners and faces, name the shape, and race to FINISH. Answer key included.
This barn shape book activity helps K-2nd Grade children color, draw and write their own farm story, then cut out and staple the barn pages into a book to share.
This house shape book activity helps K-2nd Grade children color, draw and write their own story about home, then cut out and staple the house pages into a book to share.
Using this Defining Shapes Category Activity, students sort pictures of 2D shapes into the category that best describes which shape is shown.
These balloon cut outs give children big oval balloons to color, cut and turn into a birthday book or a pattern garland. A fun art and shapes activity for preschool to 2nd grade.
This boy shape book activity helps K-2nd Grade children color, draw and write their own story, then cut out and staple the boy-shaped pages into a book to share.
Using this Flower Shape Book Activity, your students can create quick and simple books about themselves or stories about flowers or Springtime.
This computer shape book activity helps K-2nd Grade children color, draw and write their own story about computers, then cut out and staple the pages into a book to share.
This building objects with shapes activity has Kindergarten to 2nd Grade children build six flat shapes with crayons, then count sides and corners on a recording sheet. Answer key included.
This plane shapes and solid figures activity has 1st-2nd grade students count vertices, sides and edges on self-checking marshmallow model cards. A recording log and practice page, with an answer key included.
This 1.G.1 Common Core activity has 1st-2nd grade students sort colorful shape cards into houses by their number of sides, with a practice page and answer key included.
Using thisCandy Land Shapes Activity, studentsplay Candy Land to practice identifying the shapes circle, square, triangle and rectangle.
Using this Girl Shape Book Activity, your students can create quick and simple books about themselves or stories about girl main characters.
Count the sides, crack the shape!
In 2nd grade, kids stop naming shapes by how they look and start naming them by their parts. They count sides and corners: 6 sides + 6 corners = hexagon. They learn triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons and hexagons, draw shapes from clues like "four sides, one square corner," and meet 3D shapes like cubes by counting faces. They also split shapes into equal parts, halves, thirds and fourths. The click moment is when kids realize a tipped-over square is still a square, because the sides didn't change.
Shapes are easiest to learn with eyes and hands. These moves go from naming to real reasoning.
Play a shape song and have kids trace each shape in the air as it's named. Pause and ask, "How many sides was that?" The song gives the names, and the tracing gives the attributes.
Why it works: words set to a repeating melody are easier to recall than the same words spoken (Wallace, 1994).
Try it withShape Songs (Classic Video Collection)VideosOpen it →Give a clue like "five sides, five corners" and kids draw it on a whiteboard. Compare the drawings. They all look different but they're all pentagons! That shows kids it's the parts that count.
Why it works: pairing a picture with each word gives kids two ways to remember it, a well-tested principle of how people learn (Mayer, 2009).
Try it withDrawing Shapes By Attributes WorksheetWorksheetsOpen it →Flash a shape card and kids hold up fingers for the number of sides before saying the name. Counting first stops quick guesses and builds the habit of checking attributes.
Why it works: pulling an answer out of memory makes it stick far better than rereading it, one of the strongest findings in learning research (Dunlosky and colleagues, 2013).
Try it withShapes Flash CardsFlash CardsOpen it →Shapes are everywhere, and kids love to find them.
ActivitiesKids cut out triangles and combine them into new shapes. Two triangles can make a square!
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WorksheetsKids hunt for cubes, cylinders and cones around the room. Is a tissue box a cube or a rectangular prism?
Open 3 Dimensional Shapes Worksheet →
WorksheetsKids feel a shape in a bag and describe its sides and corners. Partners guess the shape.
Open Matching Shape Attributes Worksheet →Teacher favorites right now: Circle Cut Outs, Triangle Cut Outs and 2D 3D Flat Shapes Solid Figures Activity.
Second graders learn triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons and cubes. They identify and draw shapes based on their attributes, like the number of sides, angles and faces.
A quadrilateral is any shape with four straight sides and four corners. Squares, rectangles, rhombuses and trapezoids are all quadrilaterals.
Have kids count the sides and corners of every shape they see. Ask "How do you know?" instead of "What is it?" so they explain using attributes, not just looks.
2D shapes are flat, like a square drawn on paper. 3D shapes are solid and have faces, edges and vertices, like a cube or a ball.
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