Collected Resources

Describing

• Tape a 3-D shape (cube, cuboid, cone, sphere, pyramid or cylinder) to a child’s back.
• Turn them round so that the class is looking at their back.
• Ask children to describe the shape WITHOUT using its name.
• Can the child guess what shape it is?
• Repeat with other shapes and other children.

Songs/Chants/Rhymes

Incey Wincey Spider. The classic song/nursery rhyme.

3-D shapes. A rhyme to support recognition of 3-D shapes all around us.

Stories

Walter’s Wonderful Web by Tim Hopgood

Mouse Shapes by Ellen Stoll Walsh (2-D shapes)

Round is a Tortilla: A Book of Shapes by Roseanne Thong (2-D shapes but shapes found in the environment that could be converted to 3-D shapes)

Captain Invincible and the Space Shapes by Stuart J Murphy (specific to 3-D shapes; you decide whether the storyline is appropriate)