Share how your children learn about shapes to win one of three Triangle-themed bundles including gorgeous new picture book, ZigZag Travel Grobag plus a limited edition print

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Shapes make up the world around us and are an important part of early childhood development. To celebrate the publication of Triangle, a slyly funny picture book about some very sneaky shapes, we've got a trio of Triangle-themed goodies up for grabs.

Meet Triangle. He is going to play a sneaky trick on his friend, Square. Or so Triangle thinks...

Triangle is the first tale in an exciting new shape trilogy by the award-winning team consisting of Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen (creator of This Is Not My Hat and I Want My Hat Back). This mischievous, shifty-eyed story will delight your little ones whilst approaching the traditional concept of shapes from a whole new angle.

Walker Books have teamed up with The Gro Company to offer Mumsnetters the chance to win one of three gorgeous Triangle-themed prizes. Grobag is the No. 1 baby sleep bag for keeping little ones safe and comfortable throughout the night and their funky, triangle-print ZigZag Travel Grobag is perfect for taking safer sleep on the road.

For a chance to win one of 3 copies of Triangle plus a ZigZag Travel Grobag and a limited edition print, just tell us - how do your DC learn about different shapes?

This discussion is sponsored by Walker Books and ends Wednesday 19 April

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Mr maker.
We all sing and dance along, the kids think it's hilarious. Especially when you "bounce like you just don't care" in asda

Touch and feel has been a great tool - those stress balls come in different shapes and colours so have used them to teach

We used a shape sorter and just what she had read in books

The good old shape sorter toy!

As we walk around we point out shapes be it circle wheels, square boxes, round sun, rectangle table etc. Try to bring shapes to life.!

We got a fab selection of wooden shape toys from a car boot when LO was teeny - cue lots of clunking about with tiny fists, trying to fit the shapes in the correct slots & plenty of repetition naming the shapes. Simple shape posters are really good as a daily reminder.
A cheap & fun way of learning & drawing shapes is with chunky chalk on the patio - many a sunny day spent in the garden drawing & naming shapes :)

We had a jigsaw book on shapes. It worked great

My little girl loves using playdough cutters, jigsaws and picture books to learn about shapes.

We just talk all the time about shapes/colours/animals etc etc, they pick it up naturally after a while! My 14month old has just learnt to fit a circle and square in the shape sorter. He looks very proud of himself once he's done it!

We have several shape sorter toys that my little ones have all enjoyed playing with

naming shapes of objects constantly throughout the day from toys to everyday thing

Think my previous comment about dd in yr 6 learning about shapes was not what this thread had in mind.... Sorry about that. To be honest I haven't really started with my 18m old yet, but what I was getting at is that the learning aboit the properties of shapes carries on beyond knowing the names of the shapes.

We have puzzle boards where you have to find the correct shape for the hole and draw with different colours so they learn colour and shapes at the same time

We use books to learn about shapes

In our house, the kids learn by finding things of that shape around the house and garden and then writing them down under the shape heading. Making things real always helps

using puzzle games

Just by matching shapes up and comparing what different objects look like.

Wow what a lovely give away.
With my 2 year old we do a lot of things in a practical way. She tries to draw large shapes (she's very proud of Achieving an oval!) on an enormous blackboard. We also try to make 3D shapes out of play dough, or special homemade cornflower and pva modelling clay which dries hard. Of course we spot shapes in our everyday environment and compare letters to the shapes that form them. We like to mark make in shaving foam and sometimes this creates shapes. I would like to hide some different shapes in the garden to see if she could find them in a shape hunt. Oh so many fun ways to learn about shape!

We use everyday objects first, just as they crop up throughout the day.
Making a game of it, who can find a circle, cube etc first, is a favourite game.

By showing my children shapes in everyday objects ie a cushion is a square, we also had a silly game by saying how many shapes we could see in our lunch/dinner, eggs on toast was a favourite, circles and triangles!

they learnt through play x

We used snap books fist with simple shapes then with more complicated everyday pictures and flaps. Drawing is good too they all loved trying to draw circles. From under one we introduced shape sorters. Important thing is to try to make it fun.

We had shape sorter toys and books. In general, I kept the shapes simple but always a little ahead of the books just to push them a little. As they got older I started drawing more complicated shapes with them and giving them the names without putting too mush stress on them. A typical drawing day centred on squares and once we had enough squares we made a cube - cut each side out as it's too complicated to do it as one and try and explain 6 squares made a cube.

We have a wooden toy shaper and plenty of books. We also use these for colours

I use them in everyday use like this is a round plate it's a circle, this biscuit is a circle etc