Key vocabulary

• square, circle, rectangle, triangle, side, corner,
• big, small, tall, short, full, empty, heavy, light,
• next to, on top of, under, between

Activity Ideas

*Shape pictures                                                                                                   

• draw and cut out shapes from an old cereal box. Use them to make pictures. Challenge your child to make a rocket/tree/house. What shapes did they use?
• practice drawing different shapes – confidence to draw shapes are key to developing writing skills.

*Shape hunt                                                                                                   

• look at a particular shape, feel it, count the sides and corners. Then see if you can find that shape around the house.

*Describe and find it hunt                                                                                    

• hide a favourite teddy, use positional clues to help them find it. For example, it is in the kitchen. it is on the chair/ under the table. Now ask your child to hide the teddy and describe where it is to you?

* Building/construction                                                                                          

• use blocks/duplo/lego to explore building with shapes. Challenge your child to make e.g make a tower taller than teddy? How many blocks did you use?                     
• explore which blocks roll, discuss why they think this is? Look at curved and straight edges of the 3d shapes.