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Learn Shapes for Kids – Trace & Erase FREE Shape Printables

January 9, 2021
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by Beth Gorden

Learn shapes for kids with these FREE printable trace and erase shape mats for toddler, preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten age kids. These are tracing shapes worksheets to the next level because they are reusable allowing students to use them to trace the shape or as a shape playdough mat. Simply print pdf file with shape printables and you are ready to play and learn!

Learn shapes for kids with these FREE printable trace and erase shape mats for toddler, preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten age kids. These are tracing shapes worksheets to the next level because they are reusable allowing students to use them to trace the shape or as a shape playdough mat. Simply print pdf file with shape printables and you are ready to play and learn!

Learn Shapes for Kids

This shape activity  is such a fun, simple way for kids to practice shapes for kids! There are lots of choices with these free shape printables. Toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergartners can trace with their finger or dry erase marker, complete with play doh, use as a template to complete with lego or stickers, and so many other ideas. THese are also hadny as shape flashcards or to use to go on a shape treatsure hunt. Each printable shape flashcard not only includes the cute shape, but the shape name too.

Whether you are a parent, teacher, or homeschooler – you will love these handy, no-prep preschool shape activity to make learning fun. Use them at home or in a math center in your classroom.

Tracing shapes for toddlers

Start by scrolling to the bottom of the post, under the terms of use, and click on the text link that says >> _____ <<. The pdf file will open in a new window for you to save the freebie and print the template.

Super cute, simple shape printables

Tracing shapes

Print these super cute and simple shape printables. If you are going to use them as shape mats or to practice forming shapes you will want to laminate them to use a dry erase marker to wipe clean and repeat.

The 14 shapes included with these trace and erase shape cards are: circle, square, rectangle, heart, triangle, crescent, trapezoid, pentagon, hexagon, octagon, pentagon, heptagon, rhombus, and star.

These shapes trace and erase cards are a fun way to practice making shapes.

Tracing shapes for preschoolers

Kids will have fun practicing forming shapes with these silly faces, shape mats. Just trace with your finger or dry erase marker, wipe clean, and repeat!

this math activity helps toddlers practice shapes by forming them with pipe cleaners.

Shapes for preschoolers

You can use these cards as shape mats and form the shapes with pipe cleaners.

Kids can use playdough to make shape pancakes or shapes out of ropes of playdough like in the featured image above.

Practice forming shapes using dot stickers, lego pieces, or other manipulatives.

Trace the shapes

A different way to practice shapes for kids is to uses these shape cards and top with lego pieces, circle stickers, or a variety of other material. This is such a fun, hands on math activity.

This outrageously fun shape activity for preschoolers uses our free printable road shape mats to practice making shapes and learning shape names too! The tracing shapes activity uses a hot wheel car to trace shape using these free printable Road Shape Mats. This learning shapes is such a fun, hands-on shape activities for kindergarten, pre-k, preschool, and toddler age students. Simply download pdf file with shape printables and you are ready to play and learn with this car activity for toddlers. shape bingo Monster Shape Playdough Mats

Shape Worksheets

Looking for more fun shape printables and ways to help kids learn about shapes? You will love these free shape printables:

This fun, free printable shape activity for preschoolers is a great way to work on visual discrimination, identifying shapes, counting, and more! Simply print the shape i spy to work on learning shapes such as the circle, hexagon, octagon , oval, rectangle, diamond, square, trapezoid, and triangle. This activities for teaching shapes is perfect for preschool, pre-k, kindergarten and even first graders too using shape worksheets! Help young children work on their fine motor skills while learning to form shapes with these free printable Shape Worksheets. These shapes worksheets for kindergarten help students learn 14 shapes including: square. trapezoid, circle, pentagon, triangle, heart, octagon, star, crescent, diamond, parallelogram, rectangle, oval, and hexagon. Toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, and first graders will have fun tracing shapes while learning the names of shapes. Simply print shape tracing worksheets and you are ready to play and learn! Free shape playdough mats perfect math activities for preschoolers These adorable shape buddies are a fun way to help early learners work on shape recognition while having fun! This shape craft for preschoolers allows toddler, preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten age kids work on shape matching. They will also work on color recognition at the same time as they complete this shape craft activity. So grab some constrution paper, googly eyes, scissors, and you are ready to try this preschool shape activities and crafts!

Shape Activity for Preschoolers

 

Learn Shapes

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Beth Gorden

Beth Gorden is the creative multi-tasking creator of Preschool Play and Learn. As a busy homeschooling mother of six, she strives to create hands-on learning activities and worksheets that kids will love to make learning FUN! Beth is also the creator of 123Homeschool4Me.com and kindergartenworksheetsandgames.com where she shares more than 100,000 pages of FREE worksheets,& educational ideas for PreK-8th grade.

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