{"product_id":"fun-with-shapes-in-preschool-a1983","title":"Fun With Shapes in Preschool","description":"\u003cp\u003eA great way to introduce your preschoolers to shapes while exercising their creativity, problem solving, and \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.mpmschoolsupplies.com\/c-67-mathematics.aspx\" data-ad-id=\"post-content-link\"\u003emath skills\u003c\/a\u003e is to encourage 'shape art'. To prepare for this activity, spend time tracing and cutting out different shapes from brightly \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.mpmschoolsupplies.com\/c-63-construction-paper.aspx\" data-ad-id=\"post-content-link\"\u003ecolored construction paper\u003c\/a\u003e. To keep things simple, restrict your preschoolers' exposure to squares, triangles, circles, and rectangles. Provide each of your students with a piece of craft paper and encourage them to use their shapes to create common objects such as a dog, a truck, a flower, etc. While these 'pictures' will be far from perfect, students will practice shape recognition and think about ordinary objects in a new way.\n\nAs a variation, prepare pages of objects ahead of time. 'Build' a truck (or other object) from shapes and trace the finished product, giving your students shape outlines with which to match their pieces. Because the children aren't designing their own objects, only matching, it can be appropriate to experiment with more complex shapes like trapezoids or octagons, etc. This is a great introductory activity while the variation above will work best when children have had practice with shapes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.momtriedit.net\/2010\/03\/using-shapes-to-create-pictures.html\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-ad-id=\"post-content-link\"\u003eMom Tried It: Using Shapes to Create Pictures\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SupplyMe","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":1734079217689,"sku":"A1983","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.supplyme.com\/products\/fun-with-shapes-in-preschool-a1983","provider":"SupplyMe","version":"1.0","type":"link"}