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My DS learns by eating! Peas are green, corn is yellow etc. He loves his food so much that it's a surefire way to teach him a lesson. So toast is in fingers, triangles or squares. Not sure my cutting skills will be up to hectagons mind you....

When my three year old was younger we had a shape sorter but picture books were the best way to learn about shapes we found. Now we're drawing shapes and using dot to dot is really helpful.

Using the shaped and different coloured blocks to post into a post box.
A Fisher Price Toy - it was so good. Also when out, asking what shape the paving slab, road sign etc etc is.

Even before they could talk I would be babbling on about the red apple, the round ball, mummy's triangle crisps etc. So much so that I would regularly point out colours and shapes when I was without a child I think it was a good habit to get in to though as they did seem to pick them up pretty quickly and could point to the right thing before they were able to say it.

I also do counting again, even when there are no children around anything that can fit in around your day to day activities

We use a shape sorted toy which he loved and also books. We identify the shape of things in the house using the books. It's great fun

Shape sorter is a fun way to familiarise tots with shapes. Shapes can come in songs and hand actions too - e.g. Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and the Diamond in the Sky 🔷

We had a shape sorter as well as using books and singing about shapes to learn

We use every opportunity to discuss the basic shapes at first : circle, square, rectangle and triangle. Have a look at 'MR Maker' a children's TV programme, as it deals with shapes, a song, pictures made with the shapes. As it is simple and clear its ideal. Now we are able to re-enforce the information. Of course books are good, and they love drawing, we use SHAPES to draw pictures, circles are balloons, triangle is a roof on top of a square to make a house with a rectangle door, and so on

She loves her picnic basket with food in different shapes.

My small one is just getting the hang of shape sorters. Big one did 3D shapes at school a while back and spent a few weeks obsessed with spotting them everywhere. I can't remember what we had when she was learning shapes, but it must've had a semi circle because I remember my sister being impressed she knew it!

We combine it into everyday life, street signs, different shaped sandwiches, etc, making it a game rather than formalised learning.

Shape sorter & books really. It was something that just evolved & happened!

The DDs learned about shapes from playing with their shape sorter and foam bath shapes, but tv shows such as Mr Maker with the 'I am a shape' sketch and Team Umizumi have also played a big part.

I have somehow got into the habit of dancing to the "I am a shape" tune on CBeebies while trying to form the actual shapes with my hands and body. I prance around as if I'm dancing to YMCA, shouting "I AM A TRIANGLE". Not sure the kids are learning anything exactly, but they find it very amusing.

incorp into everything,when on walks what shape is the signs.what shape is there food.loved cutting cheese into shapes with me.spaghetti hoops are fab for circles. ravioli for swaures.
building blocks.we had a colourful set of wooden ones that fit into certain wholes.

My DD is only just starting to learn about shapes at 13 months. She is at the stage where she now understands what her shape sorter is for, rather than just chewing on it! Her coordination is still coming on, so she struggles with the harder shapes, but claps herself when she manages to get one through the hole.

To teach my 2 year old grandson shapes we have a wooden jigsaw, play doh cutters and books, we also point out shapes and colours when we are out walking.

Using a combination of Mega Blocks, Lego and ELC Shape Sorters are brilliant is presenting shapes of different colours and sizes, and using them in games like 'Find The Shapes', etc.

Plus there are several excellent video clips on YouTube and BBC iPlayer which present animations and songs teaching shapes. ( "I can see a square ... pumpity, pum ... I can see a square ..." )

My baby likes using wooden toys and I give her different toys to play with. She likes looking at a book with different shapes and animals.

Shape sorters and books are a good start and we also play games like Dotty Dinosaur where they collect the shapes as shown on the dice but as other people have mentioned shapes are everywhere to spot once the child gets the idea - it can be a variation of eye spy too

We have various shape sorters which all my children loved, then we went onto household objects, even things like food, fruit is a good one, and I cut toast into various shapes, also laying out funny shapes on their plates for dinner, then we draw some, although I have to admit my circles are not very good!

We started off with shape sorting toys & then lots of building blocks. Nowadays there are some good, simple games on the CBeebies website with shapes, my youngest (about to turn 4) particularly likes the 'Bing' building blocks one where she can make all sorts of things with different shapes building blocks and then colour them, whilst also building on her hand/eye coordination and computer mouse control.We also imitate that by cutting out lots of different shapes then playing games with them e.g. Matching them, matching them to their number of sides and making pictures/collages by cutting and sticking with them. In the garden, we try to make different shapes with our bodies too - that can be fun

When we are out and about and spotting different shapes we see. It's great for encouraging a more mindful approach to life whereby you take in and are aware of what's going on around you at the time.

Used a shapes sorter f o r playtime and always point to shapes around e.g. a window a door a washing bowl any thing has a shape we soo on it!!

We play I Spy, shapes version, when we're out for a walk. I spy with my little eye, something shaped like a triangle.