More Shape Activities

Making shapes with play dough - this was challenging for the 4 year olds, to shape the dough into squares, round (circle), heart and star shapes. But with the teachers' guidance and encouragement, the shapes turned out to be great.

Threading the different shapes was fun. There was no particular pattern to follow, it was more of shape recognition and to be able to thread the different shapes together (fine motor skill development).

In this exercise, the children were asked to cut out the shapes from old magazines using scissors. Cutting triangles, rectangles, diamonds and squares was not too bad for the children.

The shapes were outlined on the papers as the cutting guide for the children.

Cutting the circles proved to be quite challenging for the children.

Another favourite activity was stamping the different shapes. The shapes were from things like : bottle caps, square blocks, etc. The children had a lot of fun in this activity.

'Shape Train' - the children were given the different shapes prepared by the teachers - to be pasted on the train wagons. This activity develops the child's creativity in designing the wagon with the different shapes and fine motor skills development when pasting the shapes.

An exercise using the shapes to create the house : the roof, door and windows. Requires a lot of motor skills to paste the shapes on the 'house'.
You can bet the children are 'experts' on shapes by the time they finished this theme.