Kindergarten Activity No. 7 : Matching and Sorting Shapes

Matching and Sorting Shapes

Below you can find a link to a YouTube video. This video is a mental warm up activity. Play it before starting the activities.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUfqgRtvaYQ&feature=youtu.be

The following are two fun learning activities that are aimed to help children recognise and explore shapes by matching and sorting them.

Matching Shapes

Everywhere we look we see objects that have different shapes. Make your child find different kinds of shapes. Then, with a marker, help him/her outline the shapes found on a piece of paper. Encourage your child to match the correct object to the shape on the paper.

While matching shapes, children will notice the differences in these shapes.

The picture below is an example of how to match shapes. You can also use different shapes from the ones in the picture.

Sorting Shapes

Find some paper bags and draw different shapes on each paper bag. Then cut out different shapes (that match the shapes on the bags) from different kinds of paper.

Encourage your child to pick a shape, say it, and then put it in the bag that matches that shape.

The picture below is an example.