Use a template to print out Bingo cards or make your own by laminating card stock printed with five columns of five shapes. Get the kindergartners even more involved by providing blank Bingo cards along with shape stickers so students can design their own card. Provide game pieces or whiteboard markers to use on laminated cards so kindergarten students can cross off each shape as you call it until they get five in a row horizontally, vertically or diagonally and call "Bingo!"
Customize a classic kindergarten game by creating memory cards with shape pictures for kindergartners to practice. Use index cards or cardstock and make two cards with each shape on it to match, using different colors for different pairs if desired. Spread the cards face down and have pairs of kindergartners take turns trying to make a match of the shapes, identifying the shape names aloud.
Keep kindergartners' hands busy mixing and matching shapes to create tangrams. Provide several different tangrams in various shapes, including triangles, rectangles, parallelograms and squares along with an outlined larger shape on paper. Kindergartners should move their tangram shapes around until they have filled in the outline. Keep tangram puzzle simple at first with just a few pieces and increase the difficulty as kindergartners develop their spatial reasoning skills and shape recognition.
Kindergartners are on the prowl for shapes in your classroom, school or playground as they enjoy a shapes scavenger hunt. Give small groups or pairs of kindergartners a clipboard with a piece of paper headed by various shapes and ask them to draw pictures of objects in their surroundings in the appropriate columns. Stop signs go in the octagon column, leafs may fit into the triangle column and buildings can be listed under rectangles and squares. Enjoy sharing the results of your hunt back in the classroom and give prizes for the most shapes found if desired.