Shape Stamping
Reuse toilet paper tubes or paper towel tubes to create shape stampers. Fold the paper tubes and use them to create art, cards or fun pictures you can add other elements to.
Identifying shapes and stamping patterns:
As your child is creating and stamping shapes. You can help your child with identifying shapes. When making the stamps I created a circle, oval, square, rectangle, triangle and heart. As you child stamps you can ask, what shape did you stamp? Or you can ask them, can you stamp me a square?
You can even have your child stamp a shape pattern.
- ABA pattern: circle, square, circle OR triangle, rectangle, triangle
- ABC pattern: Circle, square, rectangle
- AAB: circle, circle, square
Attributes of shapes
Take this activity a step further by teaching your child about attributes of shapes. Attributes are something about a shape that makes it similar or different from another shape. Start with simple attributes like size, color and number of sides. After you can move to number of corners and if the shape is open or closed. You can also then ask your child to stamp a shape by describing it's attributes.
- Can you stamp me a blue shape that has 4 sides?
- Can you stamp me pink shape with 3 corners?
Another extension is to stamp shapes in a line and count as you stamp. To practice one to one correspondence by counting the shapes after stamping. Have you child touch one shape at a time as they count each shape.
Supplies:
- Toilet paper or paper towel tube
- Paper
- Paint ( washable paint for easy clean up)
- Clothespins ( optional )
Instructions:
- Cut tubes into smaller pieces and manipulate into shapes.
Cut tubes and shape into 2D shapes: heart, oval, rectangle, square, circle, and triangle.
- Add clothespins to make it easier to stamp ( optional) I found this to be less messy with the paint.
- Use paint to stamp shapes. This can be independent or guided for learning or practicing math skills as discussed above.
Stamp the shapes you have created. This can be done independently or guided by an adult.
Kim
