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Star Crepe Paper Art and Free Star Printable

July 2, 2016 By Thaleia 3 Comments

It’s 4th of July here in the USA but you can learn about the star shape all year long. Lil’ Red really enjoyed creating his star crepe paper art. I quickly gathered supplies for this project which we happened to already have around the house.

Star Crepe Paper Art

I created a printable with 9 stars on it using it as a guide for the star shapes. Then I helped to tear up the blue crepe paper streamer into smaller pieces.

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Filed Under: Freebies, Homeschooling, Lil' Red, Preschool Prep Tagged With: art, Free Printables, shapes, star

Learning Shapes with a Geoboard

May 17, 2016 By Thaleia Leave a Comment

Lil’ Red is at the right age to learn more then your basic shapes of circles and squares. A great way to this is with lots of hands-on learning. Since we own a homemade geoboard I thought this would be a great way to learn shapes.

Learning Shapes with a Geoboard

I found some free printables to work as a guide to show him how to make various shapes. I found geoboard printables that were full sheet or multiple per page of paper. As soon as Lil’ Red saw the paper he wanted to create a house.

geoboard house

Off we set to create the house. We used some stretchy hair bands from Walmart because they don’t snap or break as easy as rubber bands plus these were on clearance!

geoboard house progress

I tried to get him interested in creating the double square or the boat but he only wanted to create the house over and over again all day long.

More Geoboard fun:
Perimeter and Area Geoboard Exploration from Life Over C’s

Stick It Anywhere Geoboard from Adventures of Adam

Learning Shapes with a Geoboard from Something 2 Offer

Symmetry from Kidz Activities

 

Filed Under: Homeschooling, Tools for Learning, Tot School Tagged With: math, shapes

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