🔢 Nursery · Numbers & shapes · Ages 3–4 · about 2 weeks Dates: to

Shapes Around Us

Goal: Name a circle, square, triangle and rectangle, and find them in everyday things.

For parents: Show shapes in different sizes and turned different ways. A triangle upside down is still a triangle — children often think it is not.

Do together

  1. Shape hunt

    You need: The house

    Plates and clocks are circles, windows and doors are rectangles, a slice of pizza or a samosa is a triangle. Hunt for one shape at a time.

  2. Stick shapes

    You need: Straws, ice-cream sticks or sticks from outside

    Make a triangle with three sticks and a square with four. Count the sides together. Can they make a house from a square and a triangle?

  3. Shape picnic picture

    You need: Paper and crayons

    Draw a pretend picnic with circular plates and triangular or square pieces of bread. Ask your child to point to and name each flat shape. They can draw more food shapes; no cutting or real food is needed.

Talk about it

  • How many sides does a triangle have?
  • Which shape has a curved edge and no corners?
  • What shape is our door?

Words to use

  • circle
  • square
  • triangle
  • rectangle
  • side
  • corner

Play (optional)

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