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Build A Shape Dinosaur With Hape Rings & Sticks

November 14, 2016 by Emma Edwards 2 Comments

This weeks Virtual Book Club theme is Dinosaurs. Regular readers will know that Adam adores playing with dinosaurs. For this activity I decided to use Adam’s love of dinosaurs to work on his mathematical development by creating a Build A Shape Dinosaur activity.

Build A Shape Dinosaur. Use Rings and Sticks from Hape to create the outline of a dinosaur. Suitable for early mathematical shape development

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The Build A Shape Dinosaur activity gave us the perfect chance to test out the Rings and Sticks Game from Hape Toys. This is an educational activity consisting of 156 rings and sticks.

Ways to play with Hape Rings and Sticks

Your child has to compare the length and sizes of the rings and sticks to copy the outlines of pictures. The activity develops hand and finger dexterity, develops visual perception of colour and size as well as developing concepts of shapes within objects.

Early shape mathematical development game

The Rings and Sticks Game comes with eight double sided activity cards but there wasn’t an outline of a dinosaur. I turned to Twinkl and printed off their Dinosaur shape activity. Although Twinkl’s activity is designed to be used with 2d shapes, I wanted Adam to focus on finding the correct sized shapes and lengths in order to create the dinosaur.

Make a dinosaur out of shapes

Adam rose to the challenge and successfully created a number of shape dinosaurs. The activity developed his spacial awareness as well as widening his mathematical vocabulary. He was comparing lengths of the sticks to see which one would fit best and discussed what alterations he needed to make.

Learning shapes with dinosaurs

With eight Twinkl Dinosaur templates and sixteen Hape images, Adam certainly has lots of different ways to explore his Rings and Sticks Game. The Rings and Sticks is available directly from Hape or from Amazon.

Disclaimer: We were given Rings and Sticks Game from Hape and a Premium Subscription to Twinkl  to review. All thoughts and opinions are our own.

virtual-book-club

This weeks Virtual Book Club story is Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs by Mo Willems. Check out the other dinosaur themed activities:

DINOSAUR THEMED LITERACY ACTIVITIES

Dino Babies Letter Game from Rainy Day Mum

Preschool Dinosaur Name Activity from Preschool Powol Packets

Dinosaur Pre-Writing Tracing Pages from Sea of Knowledge

MATHS ACTIVITIES FOR THE DINOSAUR THEME

Dinosaur Number Maze from Inspiration Laboratories

Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs Jacks Game from Sugar Aunts

Clothes Pin Dinosaur Count Tray from School Time Snippets

Dinosaur Shape Matching Game from Powerful Mothering

Dinosaur Maths for Preschool and Kinder from Chickadee Lit

SENSORY AND ART ACTIVITIES FOR A DINOSAUR THEME

Collaborative Cardboard Dinosaur Art from Toddler Approved

Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs Playdough Mats from JDaniel4’s Mom

COOKING IDEAS FOR DINOSAURS

How to make chocolate dinosaurs from Mama Smiles

SCIENCES IDEAS FOR A DINOSAUR THEME

Sedimentary Rocks and Fossils Experiment from Teach Beside Me

MOVEMENT IDEAS FOR A DINOSAUR THEME

Roll a Dinosaur Movement Game from To Be a Kid Again

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Filed Under: Independent Play Activity, Learning Activities, Play Activities, Super Quick Play Activities Tagged With: Busy Bag Play Activities, Dinosaurs, Shapes

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  1. Rachel Froud says

    January 10, 2017 at 6:46 pm

    What a great idea, will have to try it out!

    Reply
    • Emma Edwards says

      January 10, 2017 at 7:43 pm

      Thanks – such an easy activity to set up!

      Reply

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