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Shape shuffle
Touch the purple shuffle button to generate a creature. Touch the purple animate button to make it come to life! Select a body part to change the colour and alter the shape. Experiment with the buttons at the bottom of the screen to make your own shape creature!
Discussion points
- What shapes can you see?
- Is a triangle still a triangle if you make it longer and wider?
- Which shapes are good to use as arms and legs? Why?
Teaching tips:
This activity helps children to recognise 2-D shapes in different sizes and orientations whilst having fun making a shape creature come to life.
Stem sentence: ‘I can see a _____ shape.’
After completing the activity, children could cut and stick 2-D shapes on paper to make their own shape creature. Stem sentence: ‘The shapes I have used are: _____’
Use this activity with the following 2-D shape activities: ‘Name the shapes - 2-D shapes’, ‘2D shape recall’, ‘How many corners? - Basic’, ‘How many corners’ or ‘How many sides? - 2-D shapes’.
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