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Teach Your Toddler Shapes with Peg Monsters!

April 5, 2013 By jbmumofone 11 Comments

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…

making peg monster

…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.

peg monster: toddler craft

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.

Shapes to aid toddler learning

 

I then cut out each shape and backed with coloured card.

Shape Cards

 

We would then pick a shape for the monster to eat!
Shapes game

 

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…
Learning shapes with Toddlers

Skills Your Toddler Will Learn:
Shape recognition
Pincer-grip motor skills
Teach your toddler shapes!

For more ideas of ways to play and learn with your toddler why not check out my Pinterest board here.

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Comments

  1. Playspotter says

    April 5, 2013 at 22:45

    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!

    Reply
    • jbmumofone says

      April 6, 2013 at 19:15

      You are very welcome! Yep, you could use them for tonnes of stuff, numbers and word recognition etc. 🙂

      Reply
  2. Debs says

    April 9, 2013 at 03:48

    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

    Reply
    • jbmumofone says

      April 15, 2013 at 15:18

      Oh that is wonderful! Thank you 🙂

      Reply
  3. Rebecca English says

    April 15, 2013 at 09:32

    What a fun way to learn shapes.

    Thanks for sharing on The Sunday Showcase. I’ve pinned to our board.

    Reply
    • jbmumofone says

      April 15, 2013 at 15:18

      Thanks Rebecca, that is really kind of you 🙂

      Reply

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