Free Little Red Riding Hood Shape Puzzle Printable
Puzzles are a great learning tool for kids. And this shape puzzle is a great way to work on learning geometric shapes and shape words with a fun Little Red Riding Hood theme.
Kids can match the shape name and shape to build the Little Red Riding Hood puzzle. This shape puzzle is a great shape activity for kids in kindergarten and first grade that are working on shape words. This is great for a center shape activity for kids as well.
The Little Red Riding Hood Shape Puzzle Printable is a part of the 5 Days of Free Little Red Riding Hood Printables.
The Little Red Riding Hood Shape Puzzle Printable is an excellent addition to the shape printables on the site.
The Little Red Riding Hood Shape Puzzle Printable is part of my subscriber library. You can subscribe to the newsletter and get access to the password there. You will find it in the nursery rhyme/folk tale or shape section on the subscriber freebie page.
What is a Matching Puzzle?
A matching puzzle is where you have items on the mat that match something on the puzzle piece. These can vary in the different ways that you can use them.
Little Red Riding Hood Shape Puzzle
The Little Red Riding Hood Shape Puzzle is a puzzle that has 12 shapes for kids to work on. You have the shape word on the puzzle building mat and the shapes on the little Red Riding Hood theme puzzle that has the shapes on each puzzle piece.
You can see the shape puzzle pieces below.
You can see the shape puzzle mat below with the shape words.
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Little Red Riding Hood Books to Read With the Little Red Riding Hood Shape Puzzle
You can read the following books and do the Little Red Riding Hood shape puzzle after. Then, they will know the characters and parts of the story they are coloring.
Little Red Riding Hood (Folk Tale Classics) by Paul Galdone. It is a classing telling of the story of the Little Red Riding Hood. And we love reading his books.’
Red Riding Hood (retold by James Marshall) is a fun story that retells the story of the Little Red Riding Hood.
Things to use with the Little Red Riding Hood Shape Puzzle Printable
Preparing the Forest Shape Puzzle Printable
Here is how we prepare the shape puzzle to use.
Laminate the Little Red Riding Hood Shape Puzzle
You want to make sure to laminate both parts of the puzzle to start with. You can see above that we laminated the puzzle before cutting it out. A lot of people say the other way works better. But I like cutting after laminating.
Cut Up the Little Red Riding Hood Shape Puzzle Pieces
You cut up the puzzle with the shape on it. You can see how below. We laminated the puzzle and then cut it out.
Preparing the Shape Puzzle Mat
You can prepare the puzzle mat in many different ways, but wall putty works great to put puzzles in place without much noise. You can see that I put a small amount on the corner on each place on the puzzle.
Then the puzzle pieces stick to the mat as you build the puzzle. And you can reuse the putty as well.
Ways to Use the Little Red Riding Hood Shape Puzzle Printable
Here are a few ways that we have used the Little Red Riding Hood Shape Puzzle. And you might have more ideas.
Say the Shape Names on the Mat
You can start by having them point to and say all the shape names on the mat. It is a great reading shape word activity for kids.
Have them read each line from left to right like they are reading a page in a book. Or you can say a shape name and have them point to the shape on the mat.
Setting up the Shape Puzzle Center
You can see a simple set up below for the Little Red Riding Hood shape puzzle. You have the shape mat all prepared and the puzzle pieces below. They are all mixed up.
You can also have the shape bookmarks for help with shape and shape word.
Make the Forest Shape Puzzle
You are going to have kids make the shape puzzle. You can have kids say the shape and then place it on the shape word. This is a great way to work on shapes for kids in kindergarten and first grade as well.
Remove Puzzle Pieces from the Mat
You can also do the puzzle in reverse. You have them point to a puzzle piece and say the shape name. Then take off the puzzle piece. Then spell the shape word and say the shape name.
You could also use the blank writing paper for kids to work on writing the shape names.
Looking for More Shape Printables
If you love this shape puzzle and are looking for more shape printables, Check out the Shape Color and Find the Shape. It is a great way to see the shape and then find the same shape around the shape.
Shape: Color the Shape & Find the Shape
A fun and easy to use shape color and find activity for kids. With a big shape to color and then find the shape that are the same as the shape in the middle.
What you will find in the Shape: Color the Shape & Find the Shape
- Color Shape in middle and Find shape around it
- Shapes: circle, square, rectangle, oval, rhombus, triangle, star, heart, crescent, hexagon, pentagon, and octagon.
- No-prep printable
- 13 pages
- Price: $3
What you will find in the Free Little Red Riding Hood Shape Puzzle Printable
- Little Red Riding Hood Shape Puzzle theme for kids
- 12 Shapes: circle, square, trigraph, rectangle, oval, crescent, star, heart, rhombus, hexagon, pentagon, and octagon
- Shape puzzle math with shape words
- Little Red Riding Hood Shape Puzzle with shapes on each piece
- 2 pages
More Little Red Ridding Hood Printables For kids
Free Little Red Riding Hood Pack has 90 pages of printables for kids ages 2 to 7, You can work on retelling story, with puzzles, prewriting and other activities that are great for kids in prek and kindergarten.
Sequencing: Little Red Riding Hood has a sequencing of the story in four parts. A great way to work on retelling the events of the story.
Little Red Riding Hood Easy Reader Book with Tracing has story words from Little Red Riding Hood. They can trace and read the sentences about the word.
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