Frog and Fly Shape Matching Game
Practice recognizing shapes with this adorable frog and fly shape matching game! Not only does this game help with shape recognition, it’s great for working on visual discrimination skills! If you’re looking for an engaging game to help teach shapes, this is for you!
Shapes to Learn
Children start learning to recognize shapes as early as the toddler years! As a preschool teacher myself, we do a lot of shape activities to help our 3 and 4-year-olds learn these shapes. Usually, children learn the most simple shapes first: circle, square, rectangle, and triangle. These shapes are simple and foundational to help them learn more complex shapes later on.
After students learn the four basic shapes, they can transition to learning harder shapes: heart, oval, star, octagon, pentagon, hexagon, semi-circle, diamond, trapezoid and parallelogram.
Materials Needed
You only need a few items for this game:
- printable game (download is below)
- card stock paper
- scissors
- laminator (optional)
Game Prep
Before playing the game, you will need to print the game onto card stock paper. Make sure it is thick enough paper so students can’t see the pictures.
After printing, you can choose to laminate them to make the cards more durable. Then cut out the cards. If you think using all of the cards will be too difficult, then just use a few of the shapes.
How to Play
For this shape game, students will find matching shape cards. There is a frog card and a fly card that both have the same shape.
- Before playing the game, flip all the cards face down and spread them out on the table or floor.
- Player one will flip over two cards. If both cards have the same shape, they are a match and player one can keep them. If they aren’t a match, flip the cards back over.
- Player two takes a turn.
- Keep playing until all the matches are found. The winner is the person with the most matches.
Free Printable
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Frequently Asked Questions
I recommend this game for preschool or kindergarten children. Of course, you can still use this with younger and older students.
In my classroom, I teach 9 shapes to my 3 and 4-year-olds. The shapes are circle, square, oval, rectangle, triangle, hexagon, diamond, heart, and star.
Modeling the game first is what I recommend. Show the whole class how to play and then divide into pairs to play the game.
More Ways to Teach Shapes
If you liked this activity and are looking for more shape activities, check out the following!
Teach students how to write shapes using rhymes!
Match the shapes to ice cream cones!
Use pattern blocks to play with shapes and make pictures!
