Inside: Over 25 awesome 2D shapes books perfect for exploring with preschool, kindergarten and elementary aged children.
2D Shapes Activity. If you are looking for a fun, hands-on way for students preschool or kindergarten to learn shapes, you are going to love this shapes activity! This activity works a lot like traditional “clip cards.” They are set up similarly and students use a “virtual” clothespin to mark their answers on the card. Shape identification is very important for young learners. It is focused on early in education and with good reason! Students will love learning shapes in this interactive slide presentation. 2D Shapes Kindergarten Activity for Google Slides and Seesaw will help your kindergartener use visual discrimination skills to identify 2d shapes’ names and they will also be working on hand/eye. A 2D shape is any shape that has two dimensions. Think about what it means to have two dimensions for a moment. If we had only one dimension to work with, we could only move backwards or forwards.
25+ Awesome 2D Shapes Books for Kids
Like all of the books in our Best Books for Kids collection, each book on the 2D Shapes Books list is linked to both Amazon and The Book Depository (these are affiliate links) where you can find reviews and age recommendations for any titles you are not familiar with.
| The Shape of Things by Dayle Ann Dodds A square is just a square? No, you can find it everywhere! Fun rhymes and bright illustrations filled with hidden shapes to find. Available: The Book Depository |
| When A Line Bends, A Shape Begins by Rhonda Greene A clever introduction to assorted shapes including ovals, squares and octagons through bouncy rhyme and colourful artwork. Available: Amazon | The Book Depository |
| Shape by Shape by Suse MacDonald A fun and playful exploration of colourful shapes—circle, triangle, crescent, semicircle, oval, and diamond – one by one they combine to reveal a great, big surprise! Available: Amazon | The Book Depository |
| A Star in my Orange by Dana Meachen Rau Have you ever seen a star in an orange? Or the swirl in a wave? Or little shapes on a fish’s scales? Look closely at the shapes in nature, there are shapes all around you. Available: Amazon | The Book Depository |
| Shapes, Shapes, Shapes by Tana Hoban Whenever you are, inside or outside, there are shapes to discover. Look around. How many circles, squares, stars, triangles, hearts, and rectangles can you see? Available: Amazon | The Book Depository |
| The Greedy Triangle by Marilyn Burns Bored and dissatisfied, a triangle visits a local shapeshifter to add another angle to his shape. Poof! He becomes a quadrilateral. But then he gets greedy and keeps adding angles until he’s completely transformed! Available: Amazon | The Book Depository |
| Perfect Square by Michael Hall A perfect square is transformed in a fun adventure that will transport you far beyond four equal sides, Available: Amazon | The Book Depository |
| Shapes of Australia by Bronwyn Bancroft From boulders to bee hives, mountains to coral, Bronwyn Bancroft introduces readers to a new way of thinking about how shapes are represented in nature through stunning illustrations representing the Australian landscape. Available: Amazon | The Book Depository |
| I Spy Shapes in Art by Lucy Micklethwait A wonderful game of I Spy to find shapes hidden in a range of artworks. Available: Amazon | The Book Depository |
| Shape Shift by Joyce Hesselberth A wonderful journey to look at how a range of shapes can combine to make fun new forms. Available: Amazon | The Book Depository |
| So Many Circles, So Many Squares by Tana Hoban Circles in squares, squares in circles, squares in squares… all be seen in this book of objects, from dishwashers to colourful teapots, to brightly patterned fabrics. Wonderful photos make spotting circles and squares engaging for young ones. Available: Amazon | The Book Depository |
| Circle Rolls by Barbara Kanninen When Circle rolls into one of Triangle’s points and pops, chaos ensues until Octagon’s “Stop!” brings everyone to their senses. An fun rhyming text introduces us to a collection of shapes and cleverly weaves their physical characteristics into traits that solve a would-be catastrophe. Available: Amazon | The Book Depository |
| Sweet Shapes by Juana Medina Rosas In this delicious forest, the bears are made of rectangular brownies, the goldfinches are triangles of lemon tart, and the butterflies are oval jelly beans. Available: Amazon |
| Mouse Shapes by Ellen Stoll Walsh What can you make with one oval, two circles, and eight triangles? Just ask these three clever mice… who even find a funny way to trick a sneaky cat! Available: Amazon | The Book Depository |
| Square Cat by Elizabeth Schoonmaker Eula is the only square cat in town. Everything that normal cats do is hard for her- she can’t get her square paw into mouse holes, she can’t wear her favorite circle skirt, and all of her friends are round! Eula is sad until her two best friends show her just how well a square cat can fit into this round world. Available: Amazon | The Book Depository |
| Triangle | Square | Circle by Mac Barnett Book 1 -Triangle: Meet Triangle. He is going to play a sneaky trick on his friend, Square. Or so he thinks! With this first tale in a new trilogy, Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen will have readers wondering just who they can trust in a richly imagined world of shapes. A visually stunning series, full of wry humor. Available: Amazon | The Book Depository – Triangle, Square, Circle |
| Love, Triangle by Marcie Colleen Ever since they were a dot and a speck, Circle and Square have been best friends. Then someone new comes along – a cool Triangle, and three starts to feel like a crowd. With their friendship bent out of shape, can they put it back together again? Available: Amazon | The Book Depository |
| Round is a Mooncake: A Book of Shapes by Roseanne Thong A simple story shared in rhyme about a young girl’s journey through her neighborhood and her discovery of shapes of all kinds, some Asian in origin and others more universal. Available: Amazon |
| Round is a Tortilla: A Book of Shapes by Roseanne Thong Discover shapes all around you with this simple rhyming story – rectangles are ice-cream carts and stone metates, while triangles are slices of watermelon and quesadillas. Many of the objects are Latino in origin, but all are universal in appeal. Available: Amazon | The Book Depository |
| Circles by David A. Adler Starting out with an introduction to the realm of non-circles (spheres, cylinders, etc.) Circles then launches into everything circular, complete with terminology (centres, points, diameters, radii and chords) to explain the properties of circles. Available: Amazon |
| Triangles by David A. Adler Triangles are everywhere-especially when two children and their robot friend assemble a brand-new bot from different types and sizes of triangles. Available: Amazon | The Book Depository |
| Squares, Rectangles and Other Quadrilaterals by David A. Adler Comical cats and dogs guide kids through the essential characteristics of squares, rectangles, parallelograms, rhomboids, and other quadrilaterals. Angles and degrees are explained with words accompanied by useful visuals. Available: Amazon |
| Circus Shapes by Stuart J. Murphy A fun circus story, brightly illustrated, that is perfect for spotting shapes with younger mathematicians. Available: Amazon | The Book Depository |
| Round by Joyce Sidman The world is bursting, swelling, budding, and ripening with round things awaiting discovery- eggs about to hatch, sunflowers stretching toward the sun, and planets slowly spinning together for billions of years. A poetic ode to all that is round. Available: Amazon | The Book Depository |
| Walter’s Wonderful Web by Tim Hopgood Walter the spider just can’t seem to spin a perfect web. Whoosh goes the wind as it blows each web away! But Walter does have a gift for spinning spectacular shapes, and one day he spins the most remarkable shape of all! It’s better than perfect – it’s a truly wonderful web. Available: Amazon | The Book Depository |
| Friendshape by Amy Krouse Rosenthal Friends shape who we are. They make us laugh. They fill us with fun. They stand by us during life’s up and downs. And even when we disagree with our friends, if they’re tried-and-true, they don’t stay bent out of shape for long. That’s the beauty of a good buddy. This joyous book rejoices in the simple beauties of friendship Available: Amazon | The Book Depository |
Continue your exploration of shapes with 15 Hands-On Activities for Learning About 2D and 3D Shapes and 20 Shapes Rhymes, Songs & Fingerplays.
2d Shapes Worksheets
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