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Rectangle Shape Activities for Kids

These rectangle shape activities make learning fun. Your kids can have a blast with these shapes games and activities that are all about the rectangle. Although these kids activities focus primarily on the rectangle shape they will also introduce other shapes to help children recognize the many shapes of their world. Other learning fun with these activities include colors, numbers and counting.

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Seek and Find Rectangle Activity

Identify Rectangle Coloring Page

Rectangle Maze Activity

Rectangle Shape Activities #1
Seek and Find Rectangles

Kids love playing hide and seek so use this to help them learn the rectangle shape.

Setup for the Seek and Find Rectangles Activity

	Use everyday items with different shapes (or just use rectangle shapes) and hide them throughout the room.
	Ask the kids to find all the hidden rectangle shaped items and place them on a table. Tip: If you use multiple shapes, have two tables; 1 for the rectangles and 1 for all the other shapes they find.
	Have them count how many rectangle items they found.

If you do not have many items for the rectangle shape, you can always cut some out of construction paper and hide these as well. You can even do this activity as a game and who ever finds the most rectangles wins.

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Rectangle Shape Activities #2
Identify Rectangle Coloring Sheet

In this activity, kids can color the train and identify all the rectangles they see.

Setup for Rectangle Coloring Activity

	Print out this coloring sheet. This is a PDF file that will open in a new window.
	Have the kids identify all the rectangles and color according to size.
	Have the kids name all the other shapes they see.
	Have them color the other shapes to complete their train.

When they are done, have them count how many rectangles they see. Have them tell you which ones are the largest and which ones are the smallest rectangles. Ask them to name all the colors.

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Rectangle Shape Activity #3
Rectangle Maze

This activity allows the kids to pick out the rectangle shape from the square shape and use problem solving skills to get to the finish line.

Setup for the Square Maze Activity

	Print off the maze worksheet.
	Have your child follow the rectangles from start to finish. If they run into a square, they have reached a road block and need to look for a different path.
	Have them color each square and rectangle according to the directions.

This kids activity will help them learn the difference between a square and a rectangles.

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Your kids can have even more learning shapes fun in addition to these shape activities by trying these rectangle shapes crafts.

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