W and I have been having some fun learning different shapes of late by turning it into a game.
First we made a peg monster which was fun and super simple to make with your little ones. Simply coat one side of a wooden peg with glue…
…then stick on a large pom pom for a head and smaller pom poms for the body. We then attached two googley eyes to the head. The self adhesive ones are great for this.
Now this monster is hungry so we needed to make some shapes for him to eat!
I made the following document which I then printed out. This is available for free download here: shapes.
I then cut out each shape and backed with coloured card.
We would then pick a shape for the monster to eat!
This has proved to be a huge success with W and we have had great fun while learning all about shapes. Here is the boy in action…
Skills Your Toddler Will Learn:
Shape recognition
Pincer-grip motor skills
For more ideas of ways to play and learn with your toddler why not check out my Pinterest board here.
Love the peg monster! We have got shapes sussed at the moment but there’s so much more I could do with the peg monster we will definitely make one soon! Thanks for sharing!
You are very welcome! Yep, you could use them for tonnes of stuff, numbers and word recognition etc. 🙂
Cute! Thanks for linking this to Tuesday Tots. I’ve featured it this week on Learn with Play at home http://www.learnwithplayathome.com/2013/04/activities-for-learning-shapes-and.html
Oh that is wonderful! Thank you 🙂
What a fun way to learn shapes.
Thanks for sharing on The Sunday Showcase. I’ve pinned to our board.
Thanks Rebecca, that is really kind of you 🙂