Shape Activities for Preschoolers: 15 Easy Ideas

Learning shapes is about noticing and naming them in the world around you. These 15 ideas make it playful.

15 shape activities

1. Go on a shape hunt around the house.
2. Make shapes from playdough snakes.
3. Build shapes with straws or sticks.
4. Cut sponges into shapes for printing.
5. Draw shapes in sand or shaving foam.
6. Sort blocks by shape.
7. Make a picture from shapes: a house from a square and a triangle.
8. Bake shaped biscuits with cutters.
9. Make shapes with your body.
10. Trace around objects to find shapes.
11. Play shape bingo.
12. Match lids to containers.
13. Spot shapes on road signs.
14. Cut paper shapes and glue them into a picture.
15. Play I spy with shapes.

Tips

• Start with circle, square and triangle.
• Talk about sides and corners: a triangle has three sides.
• Use real objects as well as pictures.
• Repeat names often.

The free shape hunt

Print the page, look around your home and write or draw something you find for each shape. A plate is a circle and a window might be a rectangle.