Observe your preschooler's current understanding of shapes. This will help you when making this shape game in parallel style.
Take a manila folder and open it with the inside facing up. Making this game in a manila folder will make it easy to store.
Draw 2 pictures side by side at the bottom and 2 pictures side by side at the top of the game, each picture approximately 3 inches in diameter. These pictures can be anything: a flower, a butterfly, your child's favorite object and so on.
Going from the bottom picture to the top picture of the manila folder, trace 6 to 8 simple shapes: triangles, squares, circles and rectangles. You can draw a shape more than once if needed. Remember to use shapes your preschooler already knows to build on his current understanding.
Use different colors to fill the inside of the shapes.
Locate 2 objects to use as game pieces. You can make these or find them in your preschooler's room. For example, use coins, rocks and small pieces of fabric.
Find a dice or something that will determine the number of spaces you and your child will move. You can use pieces of paper with numbers and dots on them to determine the amount of spaces to move the marker.