Shapes in Motion

Hand out a wide variety of different shapes to the kids

Hold your circles high.
Triangles touch the ground.
Put your diamonds on your head.
Let's all spin around. 

Put your oval on your shoulder.
Hearts jump up and down.
All squares and stars and rectangles
Bend and touch the ground. 

Shapes with curved sides fly up high.
Stars reach up to heaven.
Shapes with straight sides turn around.
Now let's sit again.

Make a Shape

Make a circle, make a circle,
Draw it in the sky.
Use your finger, use your finger,
Make it round as a pie. 

Draw a square, draw a square,
Make the lines so straight.
Make a square, make a square,
Draw a box in the air. 

Draw a triangle, draw a triangle,
Always start at the top.
Make a tent, make a tent, 
Use three lines and stop!

What shape is this?

To tune of: Do you know the Muffin Man?

Do you know what shape this is,
What shape this is, what shape this is?
Do you know what shape this is
I'm holding in my hand?

Square, Rectangle, Circle

 To the Tune of: Frere Jacques

This is a square.
This is a square.
How can you tell?
How can you tell?
It has four sides all the same size.
It's a square, it's a square. 

This is a rectangle.
This is a rectangle.
How can you tell?
How can you tell?
It has two long sides and two short sides.
It's a rectangle.
It's a rectangle. 

This is a circle.
This is a circle.
How can you tell?
How can you tell?
It goes round and round.
No end can be found.
It's a circle. It's a circle. 

This is a triangle.
This is a triangle.
How can you tell?
How can you tell?
It has three sides that join to make three points.
It's a triangle.
It's a triangle.

Shapes Song

Point to shapes on a flannelboard...or paper

Circle, square and triangle, triangle.
Circle, square and triangle, triangle.
Heart and star and rectangle,
Circle, square and triangle, triangle.

Make a Circle, Draw a Square

Make a circle, make a circle, <br><br>
Draw it in the sky,<br><br>
Use your finger, use your finger,<br><br>
Make it round as a pie,<br><br>

Draw a square, draw a square,<br><br>
Make the lines so straight,<br><br>
Make a square, make a square,<br><br>
Draw a box in the air!