Today's article contains a few activities for you and your little one to enjoy together. Scroll ahead for some fun ways to practice recognizing and organizing cut shapes!

• 1. Matching by Outline
• 2. Matching Regularly Cut Shapes
• 3. Matching Irregularly Cut Shapes

1. Matching by Outline

A friend's birthday is coming, and you've ordered them some special chocolates. You'll need some nice boxes for the chocolates, but which ones to pick? Let's look together!

There are rectangle-shaped chocolates, round chocolates, and triangle-shaped chocolates. Which box should they go in? We can put them into each box according to the outline of the shapes. Rectangle-shaped chocolates go in the blue box, round ones in the yellow box, and triangle-shaped ones in the red box.

2. Matching Regularly Cut Shapes

Here, we've cut up some squares into regular pieces. Now let's put them back together. Which two pieces fit together to make a square? Let's start with the large one in the top-left and go from there. Which piece should be put together with it? We can see that the large piece is still missing a little bit needed to be fully square, so it can be put together with the smallest piece.

There are still a few pieces left; let's continue to look at the long, thin pieces. Can you put them together along the slanted slide? Let's try! They are not square, so they should be put together with the long and thin pieces. Wow, they make a square when put together like this! The remaining two triangle-shaped pieces also make a square when put together.

3. Matching Irregularly Cut Shapes

Let's make things a little more complex. Below are two groups of cut shapes - let's try and see if they fit together. First, let's look at the yellow group. The missing piece is triangle-shaped, and the big piece is irregular. The big piece and the missing piece can be put together to make a complete square.