Bee wasn’t expecting, for example, that the base of the cone would create the same shape print as the end of the cylinder. Sometimes she alternated between two different shaped blocks to create a pattern. Sometimes she stamped the same shape several times in a row (and then, totally without prompting, counted them). She picked up each block in turn and stamped to find out.īee used the different shaped blocks to create art. We talked about what shape it created, and what shapes the other blocks might make. Bee picked up the cylinder first, dabbing it in the blue paint, and stamped circle shapes onto the paper. We love painting with unusual items at our place, and Bee was keen to start straight away!Īs this was a process-oriented art activity, I didn’t give Bee many instructions (other than try to keep the paint on the paper, and please don’t paint the walls).

I set out an invitation to paint with paper on a low table, two colours of paint, and various wooden blocks from her set. Could she relate a 3D object back to a 2D shape? I wondered if she could think about it from another perspective. So far, her thinking has been in one direction – that 2D shapes can relate to 3D objects. I thought it might be fun to tap into her current interest and see if I can extend it further. My 3.5 year old daughter Bee is just starting to grasp that two dimensional shapes (squares, rectangles, circles, triangles) can relate to three dimensional objects (dice, cereal boxes, balls, tents), and that the shape of these 3D objects have their own special names (cubes, rectangular prisms, spheres, triangular prisms). We’ve been exploring a lot of shapes and geometry at our place lately. SEE MORE AND TRANSFORM YOUR MATH TEACHING HERE. They are especially suited to children who don’t like math, lack confidence, don’t understand math the way they are currently being taught, or just want to play.

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