Printable Shapes Flashcards | Shape Cards for Preschool and Pre-K | 38 Pages

Printable shapes flashcards for early learners

These printable shapes flashcards are a packet of 38 card pages, with four cards on each page and 152 cards in all. Every card shows one big colored shape, and most print the shape name in capitals, lowercase or a mix.

The set is made for preschool and kindergarten children who are learning basic shapes, and for teachers who want a mid-size set for math centers. Each shape comes back on many pages in new colors and borders, so children see circle, square, triangle and rectangle again and again.

Teachers who want shape flashcards for kindergarten can print the pages for one week at a time. Parents looking for shapes flashcards for preschoolers can run off a page or two for the table. The four basic shapes make these basic shapes cards a good first set, and the extra shapes give older children something new to name. Since each page changes color and border, a child who knows the circle on one page sees it again in a new look on the next.

What’s on the pages

Each page has a heading such as Shapes, Shapes for Kids, Shape Flashcards, Fun Shape Flashcards! or Let’s Learn Shapes!, and a grid of four cards in two rows. The cards have colored, black or no borders, and rainbows, clouds, stars and hearts decorate the edges.

• Basic shapes: circle, square, triangle and rectangle.
• More shapes: oval, star, heart, diamond, pentagon, rhombus, crescent and semi-circle.
• Patterns: the shapes are filled with stripes, dots, waves or stars, or left plain.
• Names: most cards print the name, and a few pages print only the word Shapes.

A few cards show a smiling face on the shape, and some cards carry spelling slips, such as trianta or stare, so look through the preview pages before you print.

What’s in the download

The printable shapes flashcards pdf has 40 pages in total.

• Name page: 1 page with lines for name, class and date
• Shape cards: 38 pages with four cards each
• Thank you page: 1 page

Everything comes as PDF, so you can print one page for a small group or the whole set. The shapes are already on the cards, so there is nothing to draw by hand, and the large pictures are easy to see from across a table.

How to use printable shapes flashcards

Print the pages you want and cut the cards apart along their edges. Hold up one card, say the shape name and let the child repeat it. Then ask the child to find something in the room with the same shape.

A few ways to use the cards:

• Lay out four cards and ask the child to touch the shape you name.
• Sort the cards into piles by shape and count each pile.
• Play a memory game with two printed copies of the same page.
• Take a shape hunt around the classroom or the house with a card in hand.
• Use a single page as a warm-up at the start of math time.

Printable shapes flashcards work best in short rounds. Start with the four basic shapes, add oval, star and heart, and bring older cards back for review. A parent can pull a single page out in the car or at the table for two minutes of practice. Children often enjoy naming a shape they spot on the way, like a round clock or a square window.

Take a look at the preview pages before you buy, so you can see the card styles.

You can find more shape practice in the math worksheets category and more cards in the flashcards category. The whole shop has more early learning pages.

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