Shape house preschool
Shape Houses: A Fun Shape Activity for Kids
by Mary Leigh @ Live Well Play Together 6 Comments
Your kids will love building their own shape houses with this easy and fun shapes activity! This is one of my favorite shape activities for preschool and a great review for early elementary students as well.
I’ve been a stay at home mom now for four years. And while my day to day has changed many times during those years, one thing I’ve learned is that when you’re at home with your kids all day, it helps to have some fun, simple ideas and activities on hand.
Since we’ve added number three, we’ve been staying home a lot more. To keep my sanity, provide some sort of structure to our days, and encourage some creativity, I’ve found myself leaning into our craft cabinet more intentionally to create easy, low-prep activities and crafts that I can do with the boys.
And to be honest, it’s been a hit. They are always excited when I tell them we have a fun activity to do, and I love the intentional time together. It’s fun to see how they make each little project their own.
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I’m working on recognizing shapes with our two year old currently and our four year old is really into creating things with glue, tape, cutting, etc.
So, I pulled out the construction paper, cut out some shapes for them, and let them build their own shape houses.
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How to Build Your Own Shape Houses
These houses are a really easy and low-prep shape activity. You can easily put them together with supplies that you most likely already have at home.
Here’s how.
Supplies
- Construction Paper
- If you don’t have construction paper, you could use regular copy paper and let children color their own shapes before building their houses.
Whatever works.
- If you don’t have construction paper, you could use regular copy paper and let children color their own shapes before building their houses.
- Scissors
- Glue
Directions
Depending how young your children are, you will want to prep this activity ahead of time.
- Cut out shapes from different color construction paper for your kids to use.
- I cut out a big square and triangle as the base for each of the boys’ houses and then cut smaller squares, circles, and rectangles. I put all the shapes into baggies for each of the kids – so they each had their own supplies.
- In hindsight, it would have been fun to also give them other big shapes to choose from – but for our purposes, and maybe for yours too, a typical square and triangle worked just fine to build the basic house.
- Give each child a clean piece of paper and a glue stick.
- Allow them to “build” their house by gluing the shapes together how they wish.
And that’s all there is to it!
This ended up being the perfect shapes activity for us.
We were able to review each shape, we counted the shapes of each kind that we used for each house, and talked about what colors we used.
Both boys had a fun time with this one!
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If you’re working on shapes with your preschooler, this shape house craft is a must-see. It’s simple enough for both toddlers and preschoolers to do.
This paper craft for preschoolers provides an opportunity for toddlers and preschoolers to practice colors and shapes. You can use construction paper, cardstock, or craft foam.
Shape House Craft
If you plan to use this with toddlers, you can precut the shapes for your little ones. Then, review shape names as your kids glue the craft pieces to make the house.
Preschoolers can do the cutting themselves if they need to work on scissor skills, as well.
What You’ll Need
• colored craft paper
• scissors
• craft glue
• ruler
• pencil
What You’ll Do
Use the template to cut out the pieces needed for the shape house and tree.
Glue the thin triangular shape over the oval to make the tree.
Glue the square on a sheet of white cardstock. Glue the door and window on the square.
Use pens to add a little detail to the window and glue the small round shape on the door as the door knob.
Glue the roof on the top of the house.
Finish off the craft by gluing the tree on one side of the house.
PRESCHOOL BOOKS ABOUT SHAPES
Fill your book basket with a great collection of books about shapes. Most of these books can be found at your local library or used bookstore.
If you have a hard time finding them, you can order them through my Amazon affiliate links by clicking the images below.
Walter’s Wonderful Web – A determined little spider named Walter is trying to make a sturdy web that will stand up to the blustery wind.
The webs he makes at first are woven in special shapes–a triangle, a square, a circle–but they are still wibbly-wobbly. Can Walter make a web that is both wonderful and strong?
Tangled – When the neighborhood shapes go climbing on the park jungle gym the last thing they expect is a tangle. First the circle, next the triangle and then the square. One by one soon all sixteen shapes are trapped.
Snippets: A Story About Paper Shapes – Snippets is a story that revels the power of kindness and the beauty of being unique. And it does so though the journey of two different groups of shapes (the polygons and irregular polygons)
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List of documents for newly admitted children to GBDOU kindergarten No.
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*** In our preschool institution, it is customary to address each other politely , therefore, regardless of their age, it is necessary to address the teachers of the group with you, by name and patronymic, and teach your children this.
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*** Reception of children is carried out from 7.
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Timely arrival in kindergarten is a necessary condition for the correct organization of the educational process.
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Requirements for the appearance of children
- Neat appearance, fully buttoned clothing and shoes;
- Washed face;
- Clean nose, hands, trimmed nails;
- Hair cut and carefully combed; for girls, the hairstyle is fixed with elastic bands, bows, etc.
- Clean underwear;
- Availability of sufficient handkerchiefs. The handkerchief is necessary for the child both indoors and on a walk. Make convenient pockets on your clothes for storing it.
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- Comb (regardless of hair length).
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We strongly do not recommend that your child wear gold and silver jewelry.
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Parents can attend classes at any time by notifying the teacher who conducts it a day in advance. Replacement shoes are not required, but remember about shoe covers!
General issues are discussed at parent meetings, not because there is nothing to say about everyone, but only because of ethical considerations.
- Disputes and conflict situations must be resolved in the absence of children. If you could not resolve any issue with the teacher of the group, contact the head.
In the presence of a child one should not discuss preschool teachers with relatives or acquaintances.
