Shape Houses: A Fun Shape Activity for Kids

Your kids will love building their own shape houses with this easy and fun shapes activity!  This is one of my favorite shape activities for preschool and a great review for early elementary students as well.  

I’ve been a stay at home mom now for four years.  And while my day to day has changed many times during those years, one thing I’ve learned is that when you’re at home with your kids all day, it helps to have some fun, simple ideas and activities on hand.

Since we’ve added number three, we’ve been staying home a lot more.  To keep my sanity, provide some sort of structure to our days, and encourage some creativity, I’ve found myself leaning into our craft cabinet more intentionally to create easy, low-prep activities and crafts that I can do with the boys.  

And to be honest, it’s been a hit.  They are always excited when I tell them we have a fun activity to do, and I love the intentional time together.  It’s fun to see how they make each little project their own. 

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I’m working on recognizing shapes with our two year old currently and our four year old is really into creating things with glue, tape, cutting, etc. 

So, I pulled out the construction paper, cut out some shapes for them, and let them build their own shape houses.  

How to Build Your Own Shape Houses

These houses are a really easy and low-prep shape activity.  You can easily put them together with supplies that you most likely already have at home. 

Here’s how. 

Supplies

• Construction Paper
  • If you don’t have construction paper, you could use regular copy paper and let children color their own shapes before building their houses.  Whatever works. 
• Scissors
• Glue

Directions

Depending how young your children are, you will want to prep this activity ahead of time. 

• Cut out shapes from different color construction paper for your kids to use. 
  • I cut out a big square and triangle as the base for each of the boys’ houses and then cut smaller squares, circles, and rectangles.  I put all the shapes into baggies for each of the kids – so they each had their own supplies. 
  • In hindsight, it would have been fun to also give them other big shapes to choose from – but for our purposes, and maybe for yours too, a typical square and triangle worked just fine to build the basic house. 

• Give each child a clean piece of paper and a glue stick. 
• Allow them to “build” their house by gluing the shapes together how they wish.  

And that’s all there is to it!

This ended up being the perfect shapes activity for us.  We were able to review each shape, we counted the shapes of each kind that we used for each house, and talked about what colors we used. 

Both boys had a fun time with this one! 

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