Free Football Shape Matching Puzzle Printables
Puzzles are such a fun way to learn. And it is fun to team puzzles up with different themes. Today I have a fun set of puzzles with a football theme with shapes.
They are easy to use and great for to use during football season or really any season. They make a wonderful addition to learning centers.
The football shape puzzle are great for kids in preschool, prek, and kindergarten.
The Football Shape Matching Puzzle Printable is a great addition to the football printables and shape printables on the site.
What is a shape?
It is a geometric shape like a circle, square, heart, or rectangle. These are just some of the 2D shapes.
Football Shape Matching Puzzle Printables
There are 12 puzzles in all. It has the following shapes: circle, square, oval, triangle, rectangle, rhombus, crescent, star, heart, pentagon, hexagon, octagon.
Each football has two sides to it. There are two pictures of a shape on each football.
This is a great shape printable for kids in preschool (ages 3 to 4), prek (ages 4 to 5), and kindergarten (ages 5 to 6).
Things to use with the Football Shape Matching Puzzle Printable
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Ways to use the Football Shape Puzzles
You will see a few ways we have used the football shape matching puzzles.
Preparing the Football Matching Puzzles
You can print the football 2 piece puzzles on cardstock to help them stand up to repeating use. If you plan to reuse the shape puzzles then laminate the puzzles for longer use.
Setting Up a Football Shape Matching Center
For younger kids, you might want to star out with a few cards 4 or 5. I like to sort them so that each half is on a side for them to pick from.
Setting up a Shape Matching Game
If you have older kids have them turn the cards over and flip the cards to do a matching game. We love doing this with them.
Matching & Finding the Shape
This Football Shape puzzle set does not have a recording sheet, but you can use 10 of the puzzles with the Shape Hunt Printable.
More Football Shapes For Kids
You can also use the football shape find with the shape puzzles. You have shapes and shape word options for the shape finds. And this is another fun shape printable to use with kids.
Football Shape Find Printable
Football shape find is great way to introduce shapes for kids that love football. You have the shape word and shapes for kids to work on with these 24 shape worksheet.
What you will find in the Football Shape Find Printable
- 12 shapes: circle, square, triangle, rectangle, rhombus/diamond, oval, heart, star, crescent, hexagon, octagon.
- Tracing section for each shape and shape word
- Several shapes to dot on the Football or helmet
- 26 pages
- Price: $3
What you will find in the Free Football Shape Matching Puzzle Printables
- Football Shape Puzzles for Kids
- 2 pieces puzzles
- 12 Shapes puzzles: circle, square, oval, triangle, rectangle, rhombus, crescent, star, heart, pentagon, hexagon, octagon
- 3 pages of printables
More Football Printables For Kids
Football Shape Find has 11 shapes for kids to trace and find. You have shape words and shape options. You have the shapes on the helmet and shape words on the football. A great football shape printable.
Football Activity Pack: Prewriting, ABCs, Numbers & Shapes is a great set of printables that work on different activities with the same theme. You will find no-prep pages, easy reader books, clip cards, and tracing strips with 189 pages of printables.
Football Gross Motor Dice is a great gross motor and brain break movements for kids to do. You have six movements on a dice and then speed on the second die.
Football Number Tracing Strips Printable has numbers from 0 to 20 for kids to trace. You have an example of how to trace the numbers and how to trace the numbers.
Football Fine Motor Mats has a football template, football dot marker printable, tracing football for kids to do little fine motor work with a football theme.
Check out all the fun Football Activities & Printables on 3 Dinosaurs.
Cassie – 3Dinosaurs.com