2D Shapes

2D Shapes Activities for Preschool #preschoolshapes #2dshapes #shapesworksheets #shapesactivities #planningplaytime

Are you teaching 2D Shapes to preschoolers or young children? This uni is packed with fun, hands-on 2D shapes activities and centers as well as no-prep worksheets when you need something fast.

Kids will get to work on 2D shape formation, shape tracing, shape recognition, and finding shapes in real life objects.

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2D Shapes Activities

Lacing 2D Shapes

Preschool Shapes Activities - Lacing Shapes Cards #preschoolshapes #2dshapes #shapesworksheets #shapesactivities #planningplaytime

We love combining skills in our activities, children get to build fine motor skills and coordination while pulling a shoe lace through the holes in these shapes cards.

Threading 2D Shapes

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Drinking straws turn these simple shape cards into a fantastic fine motor activity. The kids get to practice forming the shape while working their coordination and little fingers.

Here are a few suggestions that you could use to glue onto these cards:

Giant Drinking Straws (what we used)
Died Rotini Pasta
Beads with Large Center Holes.

Shape Monster Cups

Preschool Shapes Activities - Shape Monster Cups #preschoolprintables #2dshapes #2dshapesprintables #planningplaytime

These Shapes Monsters are so easy to make. Just place the laminated monster mouths on top of a paper cup. Then kids can sort buttons or foam shapes to feed thier triangle, circle and other shape monsters.

Playdough Shapes

Preschool Shapes Activities - Playdough Shapes #preschoolprintables #2dshapes #2dshapesprintables #planningplaytime

This is another fun way to practice shape formation. Children get the sensory fun of rolling out playdough into long snakes. Then they can follow the pattern on the card to make their shape.

Real Life Shapes Matching

Preschool Shapes Printables - Shape Matching Clip Cards #preschoolprintables #2dshapes #2dshapesprintables #planningplaytime

Learning to recognize shapes in real life is an important early math skill. These clip cards allow children to find those shapes and work on grip strength as they clip those pictures.

Pizza Shapes

Making pizza is so fun, and for this game the kids can roll out or form their pizza dough into shapes like triangles, squares, and rectangles. We added red buttons to ours for our pepperoni toppings.

Shape Stencils Tracing

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Shape Outline Circles – Fine Motor Fun

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You can fill in the circles to outline these shapes with flat marbles, pom poms or for extra fun, use dot markers.

Shape Matching Clip Cards

Preschool Shapes Printables - Matching Shape Clip Cards #preschoolprintables #2dshapes #2dshapesprintables #planningplaytime

Can you recognize which shapes look the same? Work on grip strength as you clip them.

Q-tip Shape Building

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How many sides are in each shape? Count the sides and build the shapes using q-tips. You could also use craft sticks for this activity.

2D Shape Tracing Cards

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We turned these tracing cards into a shapes book using a ring, but you can keep the cards seperate as well.

Cookie Shape Sorting

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Apple Tree Shapes

Preschool Shapes Printables - Apple tree Shapes #preschoolprintables #2dshapes #2dshapesprintables #planningplaytime

Pattern Block Pictures

Preschool Shapes Activities - Pattern Block Pictures #preschoolprintables #2dshapes #2dshapesprintables #planningplaytime

Another critical early math skill is learning to create shapes and pictures from other shapes. Here the kids can work on following the patterns to build their shape pictures or experiment on making their own designs.

Geo Board 2D Shapes

Preschool Shapes Activities - Geoboard Shape Making

We love our geoboards for fine motor skills. Here the kids can practice forming shapes with their boards. The pattern cards give a bit of extra help while designing the shapes.

Pencil Shape Puzzles

Shape Puzzles for Preschool

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2D Shapes Worksheets

If you loved the Shapes activities above, you’ll also these worksheets. These are all no prep, ready to print and go. They are designed to be engaging and fun for young kids, as they work on recognizing, forming and tracing shapes.

Here’s a quick look at some of the worksheets in this set.