STEM Geometry Shapes Exploration- Building Snow Globes

Kids have so much fun building with craft sticks! This set of snow globe shape building mats will be great to use with your children to build geometric shapes. Many of you have printed out copies of our STEM Snowman Activity- Building Shapes set and our STEM Christmas Building Shapes with Stickman set. I just know your kids will have fun with this snow globe geometry shapes activity.

Building Background

You may find your children do not have a lot of experience or background information on snow globes. Here are some books you can read to them that feature snow globes.

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Getting the Geometry Shapes Activity Ready

Getting the Mats Ready

• First, you will need to download a STEM Snowman Activity Building Shapes Around Snow Globes.
• Next, you will need to open the set with Acrobat Reader.
• Then you will need to print them out in color.
• Finally, you will need to laminate or cover the mats with plastic.

Getting the Building Supplies Ready

While we used short craft sticks or popsicle sticks as building materials, you could use any of the building supplies below.

• Sticks
• Q-Tips
• Sections of a Plastic Straw
• Narrow LEGO Bricks

You will want to make sure that you enough building supplies for each of your children to complete each of the shapes.  Your kids will love building shapes. They may want to move on to a new shape as soon as they finish the first one.

Exploring the Geometry Shapes

Each of the mats features different geometric shape. It also displays other shapes. Various parts of the snowman and the snow globe are shapes. Please take the time to ask your children what other shapes can be found on the mat.

Once they have finished building a shape, you may want to see if they can find other objects around your room or house that are the same shape. It will be fun to conduct a visual shape hunt. Your kids will probably find objects that you may not have thought off.

If you like this shape activity, here are some more you will love.

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