2D Shapes Teaching Resources
A comprehensive collection of 2D shapes teaching resources. Use these educational games, activities, worksheets, posters and vocabulary word wall cards to assist your students when they are learning about identifying and working with 2D shapes. Also included are pre and post tests to ascertain each student's prior knowledge before starting a 2D shapes unit of work. Use the provided posters and worksheets when learning about finding the area, perimeter and lines of symmetry of 2D shapes.
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Colour By Shape Christmas Worksheets
Use knowledge of 2D shapes to colour in these Christmas-themed colour by shape worksheets.
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Shopping Trolley Match-Up Activity
A fun activity to be used to reinforce a variety of mathematical concepts.
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Year 2 Numeracy Exit Tickets – Worksheets
35 Numeracy Exit Ticket activities for students to provide evidence of their learning progress.
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Geometry Worksheets - Properties of Shapes - Year 2
10 properties of shapes worksheets linked to the National Curriculum in England.
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We're Going On a Shape Hunt! Graphing Game
A fun board game to aid students' recognition of 2D shapes.
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Types of Triangles Poster
A poster depicting and explaining the four types of triangles.
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Tracing and Drawing 2D Shapes Worksheet
A simple trace and draw worksheet for 2D shapes.
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Colour by 2D Shape (Basic and Complex Shapes)
A detailed set of colour by shape activities.
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Santa's New Sleigh – Christmas 2D Shapes Worksheet
Design Santa a new sleigh using 2D Shapes with a fun Christmas maths worksheet.
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2D Shape Puzzles
Use these 2D shape puzzles to help familiarise your students with the most common two-dimensional shapes.
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Identify and Colour 2D Shapes Worksheet
Use this 2D shapes worksheet to help your students identify 8 of the most common two-dimensional shapes.
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2D Shapes Flashcards
Use these 2D shapes flashcards to help familiarise your students with the most common two-dimensional shapes.
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Batty for 2D Shapes - Halloween Shapes Worksheet for Key Stage 1
Go batty and identify the 2D shapes with a printable Halloween Shapes worksheet.
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Halloween Shapes - Colour By 2D Shapes Worksheet for Key Stage 1
Don’t get too spooked while trying to identify 2D shapes with a printable Halloween Shapes Colour by Code worksheet!
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All About Octagons Mini Booklet
A mini booklet to assist younger students in learning about octagons.
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Shape Seekers PowerPoint
An interactive 162-slide PowerPoint that follows the story of a professor and their new invention that turns 2D shapes into 3D objects.
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Find and Colour – Scavenger Hunt
A scavenger hunt where students search for 2D shapes in their surrounding environment.
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All About Semicircles Mini Booklet
A mini booklet to assist younger students in learning about semicircles.
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All About Hexagons Mini Booklet
A mini booklet to assist younger students in learning about hexagons.
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2D Shape Profiles – Template
A template that students use to demonstrate their ability to describe the features of 2D shapes.
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2D Shapes and 3D Objects – Worksheets
A set of differentiated worksheets that focus on drawing 2D shapes and describing 3D objects.
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Year 3 Numeracy Exit Tickets – Worksheets
21 Numeracy Exit Ticket activities for students to provide evidence of their learning progress.
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Draw a Town with 2D Shapes
An interactive and evolving resource where students draw 2D shapes incrementally to create a town map and 3D models.
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2D Shapes and Symmetry Worksheet
A two-page worksheet to use when addressing the concepts of 2D shapes and symmetry.
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Year 1 Numeracy Exit Tickets – Worksheets
18 Numeracy Exit Ticket activities for students to provide evidence of their learning progress.
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Geometry Toss - Active Learning Game
An active game that encourages learning through a physical setting.
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All About Pentagons Mini Booklet
A mini booklet to assist younger students in recognising and drawing pentagons.
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Tangram Treats - Task Cards and Templates
Explore the properties of geometric shapes with this set of scaffolded tangram patterns task cards and cut-out tangram templates.
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Geometry Worksheets - Properties of Shapes - Year 1
6 properties of shapes worksheets linked to the National Curriculum in England.
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Diagonals of Polygons Posters
A set of 7 posters demonstrating how to apply the rule for finding the number of diagonals of regular polygons.
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Diagonals of Polygons Worksheet
A worksheet for students to practise applying the rule for finding the number of diagonals on regular polygons.
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2D Shape Bingo
30 different bingo cards using 2D shape pictures and names.