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Shapes are everywhere in our environment.
Making a game out of looking around and studying everyday objects to locate specific shapes, like circles, can be a great way to promote learning and recognition with your little ones.
Look and you shall find
Whether it's a toy ball, the wheels on a flashy car, the bottom of a stacking cup, or the cookie cutters you use while baking delicious treats with your kids, circles are all around us.
And on Look for Circles Day (and every day!), you can use the power of shapes to help your twins up their skill levels in early development.
From books and puzzles, to shape sorters and more, these circle-inspired toys and books will help your toddlers develop their fine motor and problem-solving skills.
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1. Tupperware Shape O-Ball Learning Toy Sorter
Shapes Sorter
This is the Tupperware Shape O-Ball Learning Toy sorter. It's BPA-free and comes with eight shape pieces for your little ones to organize and sort. It's a great educational toy to help babies and toddlers develop their motor and problem-solving skills.
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2. Fisher-Price Baby's First Blocks Set
Shapes Sorter
This is Baby's First Blocks Set by Fisher-Price. The shape sorting toy comes with 10 colorful blocks with differing shapes for your little ones to sort, stack, and play with. It's perfect for babies aged six months and up.
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3. National Geographic Kids Look & Learn: Shapes! Board Book
Shapes Board Book
This is Look & Learn: Shapes! by National Geographic Kids. Available as a board book or in a hardcover edition, this book is a wonderful learning tool for kids from zero up to age four to practice and learn the different shapes.
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4. Roger Priddy First 100 Board Book Box Set
Shapes Board Books
This is a three-book box set by Roger Priddy. It includes three books for little readers from one to two years old, including First 100 Words, Numbers, Colors, Shapes, and First 100 Animals.
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5. Bright Starts O-Ball Easy Grasp Classic Ball
Easy Grasp Ball
Bright Starts O-Ball Easy Grasp Classic Ball This is a multi-colored O-Ball by Bright Starts. It's BPA-free and has a diameter of four inches. Perfect for newborns and older, this toy helps little ones practice their grasping skills. This ball also comes in a rattle version.
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6. Vanland Set of 100-Piece Ball Pit Balls & Storage Bag
Ball Pit Balls
This is a 100-piece set of multi-colored balls for a baby or toddler ball pit play area. The balls are phthalate-free and BPA-free and are made of crush-proof plastic. The set comes with a storage bag.
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7. Coogam Wooden Shape Peg Puzzle
Montessori Shapes Puzzle
This is a Montessori peg puzzle by Coogam. The early learning educational puzzle features a variety of brightly colored wooden shapes that help little ones three years and older develop their fine motor, color matching, and sorting skills.
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8. The First Years Stack & Count Stacking Cups
Montessori Bath Toy
This is a set of Stack & Count Stacking Cups from The First Years. The Montessori bath toy set includes eight bright, stackable cups with different shapes and numbers stamped on the bottom of each cup. The cups are BPA-free, help your little ones practice counting, and have unique holes in the bottom for babies to observe the different streams made from pouring water through the different cups.
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9. Hot Wheels Toy Cars & Trucks, 10-Pack
Toy Cars
This is a 10-pack of Hot Wheels toy cars and trucks. The set includes a variety of racecars, semis, rescue, and / or construction trucks that differ between each pack. Have your kids find the circles on these cars, from the wheels on the outside, to the steering wheel on the inside.
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10. R&M International Round Cookie Cutter Set
Cookie Cutters
This is a multi-colored set of round cookie cutters by R&M International. It comes with six assorted cutter sizes, from 1 3/8" up to 3 5/8" that are dishwasher safe. The best part is after you roll out the dough and your toddlers cut out the circles, you can enjoy some delicious cookies as a reward.
Circling back to what we said earlier
Shapes make up everything around us. Look around the room and at your children's toys, and you'll be able to identify circles, triangles, squares, and more.
Encouraging your twins to focus on an object and identify its shape can help with shape and color recognition and can also boost other areas of early skills development.
And with such fun toys that also help them embrace early education concepts, you can bet your toddlers will tire out...not from learning too hard, but from having too much fun while they're doing it.
What are your favorite shape-inspired toys to encourage early education with your toddlers? Let us know in the Comments section below.
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