2D Shapes | Craft Sticks Shape Activity | Morning Tubs | Math Center

This STEM activity is a great way to learn geometry and help young learners develop fine motor skills.

Add these 2D shapes craft stick task cards to your morning tubs or math centers. This activity can be used to supplement a lesson on geometry, early finisher activity or as a reward for behaving well :)

These craft stick task cards come in color and black & white.

This pack includes 16 visual task cards (16 Color & 16 BW)

• triangle
• square
• rectangle
• star
• pentagon
• hexagon
• parallelogram
• heptagon
• octagon
• cross
• diamond
• heart
• house
• boat
• crescent
• arrow

Please Note

The task cards are not to scale of the craft sticks. Students will follow the task card as a guide.

What is STEM?

STEM is an acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (as subjects of study).

STEM helps students learn while doing fun practical activities.

Practicing these subjects from a young age will help develop a love for STEM subjects while building a foundation of knowledge.

STEM subjects teach students how to think critically and solve problems.

Instructions

Simply print the pages, laminate and cut out the cards.

Instruct your students to build the shapes (2D) according to

the image examples by using the required amount of resources (craft sticks).

Make it more challenging by instructing students to use the correct colors according to the mats and have students count the sides.