Mouse Shapes

C and R love the little mice featured in Mouse Shapes, Mouse Paint, and Mouse Count by Ellen Stoll Walsh. We have been reviewing shapes this week so Mouse Shapes came off the book shelf. The three little mice are running from the cat when they bump into a pile of shapes and realize they can make many different pictures out of shapes. They have a lot of fun with this and even manage to scare the cat away with their shape pictures.

After reading the book, I gave C and R some shape foam stickers that I found at the dollar store. There were no circles in the package so I also gave them each a sheet of color coding labels in assorted colors (3/4 inch circle stickers from Staples). They each made their own creations with shapes and we talked about the different colors and shapes while they worked. I expected R to name each shape correctly and expected C to explain the differences and similarities between the shapes and also be able to describe or define each shape.

This is R's shape creation. When I asked her what it was she said, "Shapes!" Silly mommy.

This is C's shape creation. He said it is a battlefield that he is going to visit with Dad someday.

We also had a shape scavenger hunt. I called out a shape and they would look around the house for objects of that shape. We took our scavenger hunt out on the town and used these awesome traffic sign scavenger hunt sheets from flipflops and applesauce. The traffic sign scavenger hunt was a great addition to our house scavenger hunt because there were a few shapes that we had trouble finding in our house.

C and R enjoyed making shape cupcakes. I have no idea why C looks so upset in this photo.

C's cupcake looks more like a pizza, but that's ok. He didn't want to decorate the wrapper.

We have been working on shapes everywhere - even in the driveway.

As soon as I publish this post, we are going to have more fun with shapes while playing Cranium Hullabaloo.

Thanks for reading!