Shape game

I put three shapes on the floor using colored duct tape - blue square, yellow circle, and purple triangle. Right away Thing 1 ran to the kitchen, where we just finished playing with our shape cookie cutters, ran out, and put all the cutter shapes in the right shape :) At least I know he can match the shapes!

I had the boy sit on special spots (couch pillows) next to me. Then I said "Run and touch the purple...."(and waited to see if maybe they knew the color, only Thing 2 knew the color blue because that is the color he has been assigned since birth). Then I picked up a shape outline and said the shape name. "Touch the purple.....triangle". The boys would jump up and run to the triangle and touch the shape. They played this for about two rounds of each shape. Then I just said the shape without any helping pictures or colors. This was a bit harder but they got through a round.

I think it was a successful way to get them to better identify one shape out of the three.

Shape exercise:

After they were tired of playing (which was sadly only about 4 rounds total). We each stood in a square and did different things like spin, touch toes, jump, donkey kicks (hands down and kick legs up) etc. They thought this was fun, but then kept fighting over who got to stand on what shape so we moved on to another activity.

Shape tracing with cars:

I got out some toy cars of the boys and let them race them around the shapes. This only lasted a minute or so until they were up and finding something else to play with (sadly, when one boy decides he is done both stop playing...).

I think it was a very fun, successful time playing with shapes :)