Build a Gingerbread Cookie: Shape Button Visual Discrimination Activity

This hands-on math and fine motor center is perfect for a winter theme, gingerbread theme, or bakery theme in any Preschool or Kindergarten classroom. If you’ve got a bin full of shape buttons or manipulatives tucked away, this is the perfect low-prep activity to put them to use.

These Gingerbread Shape Visual Discrimination Cards and Activity Mats give students the opportunity to practice copying patterns, matching shapes, and building visual-spatial skills. Students simply look at the task card, identify the shapes shown, and recreate the gingerbread cookie design on their own empty mat using shape manipulatives.

These 8 shapes are included: circle, oval, star, heart, rectangle, square, triangle, & diamond.

What's included?

• 1 Task Box Cover (color)
• 24 Task Cards
  • task cards print 4 to a page in color only
• Gingerbread Mats (color and black/white)
• Printable Buttons (8 shapes in 6 Colors = 48 buttons)
  • Print on cardstock and laminate. Use these printable buttons if you do not have plastic buttons (or are missing certain shapes!)

Material Options: 

• Shape Buttons
• Felt Pieces cut into buttons shapes
• Any small Shape Manipulative in these shapes: circle, oval, star, heart, rectangle, square, triangle, & diamond

Add these cards with your shape buttons (or manipulative of choice) for a quick set up for math centers, small groups or task box independent work this winter. Students will love decorating their gingerbread cookies with shapes.

Here's another fun visual discrimination activity using linking cubes or check out the BUNDLE of Visual Discrimination Activities.

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Thank you and Enjoy!

Mrs. Jackson