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    Home » Learning Activities for Toddlers

    Published: Jun 29, 2018 · Modified: Jan 18, 2024 by Fynn · All activities should be supervised by an adult. This post may contain affiliate links.

    Shapes Sorting Suncatcher

    Inside: How to make an easy shapes sorting suncatcher learning activity for your toddler.

    shape sorting suncatcher for toddler
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    • Shapes Sorting Suncatcher Activity for Toddlers
    • What Do Kids Learn in this Activity?
    • What Ages is this Activity for?
    • What Do We Need?
    • How to Make a Shapes Sorting Suncatcher
    • More Shape Sorting Activities

    Shapes Sorting Suncatcher Activity for Toddlers

    This is such a delightful invitation for young toddlers to create beautiful suncatchers and learn about basic shapes at the same time!

    What Do Kids Learn in this Activity?

    1) Shapes, 2) sorting and 3) fine motor skills as the little hands stick the little shape pieces on the suncatchers.

    preparing an indoor shape sorting suncatcher activity for kids
    a suncatcher for sorting shapes on the window at home

    Related: Find out more about developing your child's Spatial Reasoning Skills.

    What Ages is this Activity for?

    This shapes sorting suncatcher activity is wonderful for 2 to 3 years old toddlers as they begin to learn about shapes.

    Contact paper is sticking made easy for kids!

    Are you good friends with contact paper yet? Contact paper is a sure win with toddlers, especially if they love stickers but get so frustrated with peeling the backings of the stickers off.

    What Do We Need?

    • Scrapbook 12” by 12” papers
    • Contact paper
    • Basic stationery like sticky tape, a pair of scissors and marker
    • Small shape cut outs. We used a variety of materials: felt, foam and cellophane paper. Amazon sells felt/foam stickers in different shapes and you can find a variety of foam shapes. Or you can simply cut them out yourself.
    foam and felt shapes in a basket

    How to Make a Shapes Sorting Suncatcher

    • Cut out big frames in four basic shapes (circle, rectangle, square and triangle) and 1” thickness from the scrapbook papers.
    • Place each frame on the contact paper and trace the hole in each frame. Cut the contact paper shapes out, leaving at least a 0.5” allowance all around. The contact paper should be slightly bigger than the hole but smaller than the entire frame.
    make a frame for the contact paper
    cut a sheet of contact paper
    • Now stick the contact paper shapes onto the frames. I find it easiest to put the frame on a clean table surface, peel off the  paper and place the contact paper, sticky side down on the frame. Secure the contact paper to the frames with sticky tapes. Then carefully peel the frame with contact paper off the table.
    Secure the contact paper to the frames with sticky tapes
    • Place the suncatchers, sticky side out, on a large window. Secure the suncatchers with sticky tapes.
    • Prepare a basket of small shape cutouts with different materials and set it beside the suncatchers.
    Place the shape sorting suncatchers, sticky side out, on a large window
    toddlers pick out the foam shapes and stick them on the matching contact paper shape

    We did this same activity twice, once when my son was 2.5yo and another time, when my daughter was almost 2 during our weather theme month. Be sure to check out our weather theme learning shelf for more hands on learning activities! Share a photo with me if you make one too!

    Need more ideas to use the whole roll of contact paper?

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