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Shapes!

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Explore five basic shapes- square, rectangle, triangle, circle, and stars with youngsters. They will participate in hands-on activities, draw each shape, name each shape. They also get to eat things that are in the shapes they have just learned to identify.

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stars, circles, rectangles, polygons, quadrilaterals, shapes, squares, triangles

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basic shapes, circle, rectangle, square, star, triangle, shapes of objects, math

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