Book of Shapes for Preschoolers
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This FREE Book of Shapes is an incredibly useful resource for preschoolers to work on recognizing and naming common shapes, building early geometry vocabulary, practicing literacy and fine motor skills, and could be the perfect addition to your lesson plans.
Each page of this mini-book features a different shape and its name in dotted lines to trace and color, and a small, colorful image of the shape and its name that children can use as a model, if they want.
The book includes thirteen shapes: circle, triangle, square, rectangle, pentagon, hexagon, octagon, star, oval rhombus, heart, trapezoid, and parallelogram. You can get it at the end of this post.
Benefits of the Book of Shapes
This interesting Book of Shapes will allow children to learn the shapes and practice pre-reading and pre-writing skills, because it includes three main tasks:
- Tracing the shapes.
- Coloring the shapes.
- Tracing the shape names.
In other words, it will help them:
- Learn the names of the shapes (shape recognition).
- Associate the name of each shape with its form (literacy).
- Practice tracing and coloring skills (fine motor and creativity).
- Make them feel successful when they accomplish the different tasks.
Each page presents a different shape and the shape name in dotted lines that children can trace and color.
Another advantage of this book is that you don’t have to give all to the children immediately. You can add each page to your lesson plans as needed, as you introduce each shape.
How to Prepare the Book of Shapes
This book is very easy to get ready. You will only need:
- The Book of Shapes printable (found at the end of this post).
- A printer.
- White paper.
- Scissors.
- Stapler and staples.
- Pencils, crayons, or markers.
Just print the pages on white paper, cut out the pages outside the lines, have the children trace the shapes and the shape name with pencils, and then color the shapes with colored pencils, markers, or crayons. Once they finish with all the pages, bind them together with staples to create a mini book that children will keep and re-read for a long time.
Shape-related Books
These books can be found at your local library, used bookstore, and on Amazon. If you want to add them to your collection, you can use my affiliate links embedded in the titles for immediate access.
- What Shape Are You Today? by Miranda Millman is a read-aloud-friendly, easy-to-understand book that helps little learners recognize and name common shapes, build early geometry vocabulary, celebrate differences and self-expression, using colorful characters.
- Shape Stories by Amanda Shackelford is a fun, rhyming adventure that invites children to explore how circles, squares, triangles, and more can come together to create pictures, patterns, and even stories, helping them see that shapes are all around them.
- Tangled: A Story About Shapes by Anne Miranda rhyming story about an unruly gang of sixteen geometric shapes who get tangled in the neighborhood jungle gym until their friend comes to their rescue and order is restored.
- Mouse Shapes by Ellen Stoll Walsh is a concept book celebrating shapes, color, and innovation.
- Ten Black Dots by Donald Crews is a unique and fun picture-counting book that will help children develop visual learning skills, explore creativity, and practice counting, all in one.
- Leo Loves Shapes: A First Shapes Adventure by Siomara Malta Nicacio uses simple scenes, bright illustrations, and clear language to introduce children to shapes in a natural, playful, and engaging way.
Pin It For Later
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Don’t forget to download your FREE Book of Shapes. Just click the link below and enter your information for an immediate download.
Be happy, safe, and creative. I wish you well.
Love,
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