Maze Shape Sorting Game

This was one fun activity we did a few months ago. It needs just 5 minutes of prep work and you are all set to have loads of fun for a good amount of time. It aids them to concentrate and multi-task and they need to walk on the ramp and also sort the items based on the shape. It tingles their little brains a bit and also give those tiny legs a little work out ion the process! :D

My boy is very fond of shapes and loves identifying shapes in everyday items. He has a few shape based puzzle and toys. This little game actually uses the pieces of a simple wooden shape sorter toy that he has in which there are little wooden pieces of 4 different shapes and colours that need to be sorted and inserted based on shape, onto a stand that has tiny sticks to hold the shapes in place. If you do not already have a shape sorter toy, you can use anything else that you have at hand or you could just cut out pieces of chart paper into different shapes and colours.

This game was an absolute hit with my Mini. He wanted to do it a few times over! Hope your little one enjoys it too :)

How we played the game:

• First, I cut out huge shapes out of black chart paper.
• Then, I set up a maze using a few pieces of foam puzzle pieces.
• At the end of each track of the maze, I placed one sheet of the black chart paper shape cutouts and taped it there. I did that for all four shapes.
• I placed his shape sorter toy at the beginning of the maze.
• Now, I got the Mini to pick one item from his shape sorter toy, walk down the maze and asked him to figure out the corresponding black paper chart shape cutout that it needs to be placed on, based on shape.
• Once placed, he needed to walk back on the maze track and pick another item and repeat the matching process.

He had fun walking up and down the maze and matching the little items. He happily did this until we ran out of all the shapes on the shape sorter toy! :)