Fun Activities

Uses and learning and intellectual development

• Making different shapes – alphabets, animals, actions, home objects, outside objects
• Learning properties of simple polygons
• Imagining shapes and relating to real objects (nouns) and actions (verbs)
• Learning concept of plane and tiling
• Learning counting – sides and angles
• How same area can have different orientations in space
• Orientation and symmetry of shapes in a plane
• Area and perimeter, how those are related and different
• Dissections and combinations of 2D shapes
• Learning fractions – parts and whole
• Making puzzles – on shapes, missing pieces, combinations, designs, tiling & tessellations

Art & Design

• Can you arrange all pieces in a given shape (triangle, parallelogram, hexagon etc.)?
• Can you make an action shape?
• Can you make a symmetric shape?
• Can you make different shapes (4 sides, 5 and so on till 12-gon)?
• Can you make certain shape with a hole inside?

Geometric Thinking

• How simple shapes can compose different shapes?
• How different shapes cover the same space?
• How to compute perimeters?
• How adding areas gives total area of shape?
• How areas may be subtracted?

Sense of space and proportion

• What is relative size of pieces?
• How apparently different sizes are actually same?
• Which shapes are similar?
• Which shapes are congruent?

Hand-Eye Coordination

• Fill in the given space?
• combine shapes of equal sides?
• Find the missing piece in a given shape.
• Arranging to make complex shapes.