Fun With Shapes!

A shape and color matching game.

A kid-themed shape and color matching game. The shapes are incorporated into four pictures - farm, outer space, under water and circus with clown.

Each puzzle board measures 9.5" x 8" and has six cut-out spaces for shape pieces. The pieces are nice and thick, 3/16", and would be quite difficult to bend or break. Each puzzle board has one of each of these shapes: square, rectangle, half circle, circle, triangle and diamond. The shapes for each board come in these six colors: red, orange, purple, green, yellow and blue.

Fun with Shapes won the 2014 Game of the Year Award from Creative Child magazine.

Try this:

• Play with the pieces before using the boards and point out the differences in size, shape, color, etc. Show how one piece can look different in different orientations.
• Talk about the pieces by their shape and color and encourage the individual to do so. For instance, you could say the alien's space ship is a yellow half circle and the treasure chest is a blue rectangle. Or, the rabbit's tail is a square, but when you turn it like this, it's also a diamond.
• Give the individual one puzzle board and then hand them one piece at a time to complete it. Name the piece, "Find the green rectangle". Ask them to repeat the color and shape of each piece.
• Place only the six pieces that the individual will need next to his puzzle board if looking over all the pieces would not be appropriate.
• Place all the pieces on the table and ask the individual to pick out the six that he will need to complete his puzzle. Then ask them to complete the puzzle and see if they were right.
• Place the pieces on the table but turn them into different orientations than how they appear on the puzzle board. See if the individual can find them.
• Hand the individual a piece he will need and ask him to turn it in-hand for the correct placement.
• Ask the individual to turn the piece in-hand to the correct orientation if the piece is not in the correct orientation when they pick it up. Set the pieces up this way so that they will have to practice in-hand manipulation.
• Sort the pieces into piles by color. Then go through each pile and name each piece by color and shape.

In the box: 4 puzzle boards, 24 shape pieces

 

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