{"id":18463,"date":"2011-08-22T22:40:21","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T02:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/homeschool\/?p=18463"},"modified":"2011-08-22T22:40:21","modified_gmt":"2011-08-23T02:40:21","slug":"toddler-activity-paper-shapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/homeschool\/toddler-activity-paper-shapes\/","title":{"rendered":"Toddler Activity: Paper Shapes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paper shapes are a great way to keep your toddler busy while learning their colors and shapes! These take a bit of time to make, but once you are finished they last for a long time.<\/p>\n<p>They are very simple to make, just cut shapes out of construction paper. If you are a scrapbooker I&#8217;m sure you have lots of tools that make shape cutting very easy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/homeschool\/files\/2011\/08\/paper-shapes.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18464\" src=\"\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/homeschool\/files\/2011\/08\/paper-shapes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"410\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cora plays with the shapes while I sit close by working with the other children. My older kids love helping Cora identify shapes and colors. We&#8217;ve only used them a few times with Cora and she already knows most of the colors and all her shapes.<\/p>\n<p>You can also have your toddler sort by color, shape, or even make patterns.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/homeschool\/files\/2011\/08\/paper-shapes-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18465\" src=\"\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/homeschool\/files\/2011\/08\/paper-shapes-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"410\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bigger kids can use these shapes to create works of art. A large piece of felt is a great background for construction paper shape art. We reuse our shapes over and over, but you could have your kids glue them in different designs on a piece of paper.<\/p>\n<p>I store my shapes in a manilla envelope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paper shapes are a great way to keep your toddler busy while learning their colors and shapes! These take a bit of time to make, but once you are finished they last for a long time. They are very simple to make, just cut shapes out of construction paper. If you are a scrapbooker I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18463","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-helps","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/homeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/homeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/homeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/homeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/homeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/homeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/homeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/homeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/homeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}