![]() ![]() You can touch each side and count the sides. While you’re helping your preschooler learn shapes, it’s perfectly appropriate to use some math vocabulary. Teach your child that you can count the sides to tell them apart. Of course, hexagons are very easily confused with octagons (and many other polygons) so be on the lookout for that. I wouldn’t choose hexagons as the very first shape to start with but it is one you’ll want to introduce to your preschoolers before they go off and become kindergarten kids. You might not think of hexagons as a basic shape, but these days they are considered one. You can teach them in any order, but that’s the order I’d pick.Īfter your child is very comfortable with those shapes, you can move on to the next 3.Īnd when you are practicing these new shapes with your child be sure to use the free worksheets I’m giving you with the shape word on top. The first 3 shapes your child should learn are: I actually encourage you to teach your child just one or two shapes at a time because more than that can be really overwhelming. Our goal is for young kids to know all 6 of these basic shapes when they enter kindergarten, but they don’t need to learn them all at once. Get THE free Preschool Shapes Activity Book Which Shapes Should My Child Learn First? I wouldn’t introduce colors and shapes at the same time but I absolutely encourage you to practice them together once your child is familiar with them. It’s easy to have child practice these skills together. Shapes and colors are great preschool math skills to learn together because they are both so visual. Maybe triangles are orange, so then all the triangles they find will be orange.Ĭoloring is such a great too for building in extra practice for fine motor skills too! COLORS AND SHAPES So if circles are red, the big circle on the top of the worksheet will be red and the circles they find below will also be red. You could assign each shape it’s own color and have your child color code the shapes they find. It’s a really fun game for preschoolers to practice finding the matching shape. Then they’ll need to find the shapes and match them together. To make this even more fun, you could have your child color them and then hide the shapes around the house or in a sensory bin. You could print out 2 copies of the shapes chart, have your child cut the shapes out on the dotted lines (yay for fine motor skills) and then use the shapes cutouts for matching. Here are some ideas to get you started: MATCHING SHAPES There are many shape activities that you can do with these free shape worksheets. These could be used to teach your child at home or laminated and used as math centers for preschool students. Here are the variety of shapes included in these printable worksheets: ![]() This is a great way for them to use what they’ve learned and decide if each small shape is the same or different than the shape they’re looking for. Then on the bottom of the page, your child will need to find the matching shapes. ![]() This is perfect for your child to trace with their finger. On the top the shape work is written in bubble letters, so your child can color that in if they want to. Next in the Free Preschool Shapes Activity Book, you’ll get shape recognition worksheets for each of the 6 main basic shapes. You can hang it in a place they’ll see it often so they’re constantly exposed to these shape words. This chart is a great way to teach your child shape names. Those first 5 shapes are the most important for our preschoolers to learn and start is an added bonus because they likely already know that one and it’s fun. The shapes chart included in the Free Preschool Shapes Activity Book includes dotted line shapes and names for the 6 main shapes: There are also great preschool shapes worksheets focused on individual shapes and I’ll dive into those in a minute. The first activities included are a shapes chart and draw the shapes coloring page. I’ll show you all of the shapes included in the Free Preschool Shapes Activity Book and then I’ll guide you through using these free printable shapes worksheets to teach your child shapes. There’s nothing wrong with introducing your child to those earlier, but I would be sure that they have a solid understanding of 2D shapes before moving out to 3D shapes. ![]() In kindergarten your child will need to learn about 3D shapes. They need to know shape names and be able to describe the shapes. Preschoolers need to know basic 2D shapes. Get THE free Preschool Shapes Activity Book PRESCHOOL GEOMETRY ![]()
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