Shapes in many sizes and directions
Children often think a triangle has to point up. The shapes here are drawn in different sizes, and colour by shape scatters them so children name each one by its sides and corners.
Three activities
Tracing and naming suits LKG and UKG. Sides and corners suits Class 1. Colour by shape works for any age as a quiet, satisfying activity.
NCF and NCERT links
- UKGThe NCF-FS (C-8.8) has children drawing 2D shapes freehand and matching triangles of different sizes and turned different ways.
- Class 2Children name squares, rectangles, triangles and circles and describe their sides and corners; Joyful Mathematics 2 has chapters called “Shapes Around Us” and “Playing with Lines”.
- Class 2The NCF-FS also covers 3D shapes such as the cuboid, cylinder, cone and sphere, which these 2D sheets do not include.
The NCF-FS points to everyday objects, such as the pages of a book being rectangles with four sides and four corners. Send children round the classroom to find one of each shape before they start the sheet.
Rangoli and kolam designs are full of shapes too. Ask children to name the shapes in a simple rangoli, then draw their own using the shapes from the sheet.
Summarised in our own words from the National Curriculum Framework for Foundational Stage (NCERT, 2022) and NCERT’s Joyful Mathematics textbooks.
