Shape Activities

When Cody and Jaden returned to school after Christmas break, I wanted to do some intentional learning activities with Adley. She already knows her colors really well but wasn't very confident with identifying all of her shapes. So, I scoured Pinterest and found some great shape activities.

First, we made a shape book. Adley painted all of the shapes that I drew and, even though I never gave her this direction, was careful to try to stay in the lines.

Adley made five pages of shapes, decorated a cover, and then stapled the pages into a book. 

She was so proud to "read" this book to Daddy and her brothers! It was great practice for her in remembering which shape was which too.

Next, we did a fun Magnatiles activity that was sort of like tangrams. Adley loved turning her Magnatiles into pictures.

Another day, we played a memory game with shapes. Adley does surprisingly well at this game and can genuinely beat me at times! I tried to get her to say the name of each shape as she turned the cards over.

After a few days of doing shape activities, Adley would excitedly ask me right after breakfast what our activity would be for the day. On this particular day, she wanted to jump right in before she even got dressed or combed her hair. :) Adley loved using Cheerios to create shapes.

After that, we played a shape game where Adley would roll a die and then run to the given shape.

Adley's favorite activity was probably this next one-- shape sorting. She absolutely LOVES doing anything on her easel and really enjoyed making this large collage. Adley asked to repeat this activity on two other days. Good thing we had cut extra shapes!

Our last activity was doing a shape outline match with blocks. At times, this activity got a bit tricky as Adley had to determine which direction each block should face. She usually figured it out without my help though!

By the end of all these activities, Adley was become much more adept at remembering the names of all her shapes. It was especially fun for me to see her excitement about all that we did. She's at a pretty enjoyable age!

Adley was always so proud to share her projects with Daddy and her brothers when they got home. Daddy, of course, was appropriately thrilled to see all of Adley's work. Cody and Jaden, on the other hand, seemed only mildly interested when Adley told them about what she learned. The boys took it to heart more than I realized though, as one weekend they dove into a special project for their sister. They worked together to write and illustrate a shape book for Adley. The boys said they wanted to help her practice her shapes too! It warmed my heart so much to see all the time they put in to this project and to see how proud they were to read it to her. So sweet!

After seeing Adley's high interest for these shape activities, I realized that she's probably ready to start some letter activities soon, just like I did with Jaden and Cody. We will jump into that next!