Let’s play Spot The Shape!

Here's how to play Spot the Shape

What you'll need:

• A4 paper
• pen
• LEGO^® DUPLO^® bricks (such as those in the Deluxe Brick Box)

If you don’t have any DUPLO bricks, you can use small wooden blocks or other cube-shaped objects

How to play

• Make a simple shape (say, an L-shape) by linking DUPLO bricks.

• Draw around the shape, then take the bricks away and draw in lines where the bricks connected with each other. This way, you get a shape that's divided up into separate areas (or 'holes') and each area is the exact size and shape of a DUPLO brick.

• Get your child to match a DUPLO brick to each area/hole on the paper until they have recreated the shape you made at the beginning.

Extra ways to play Spot the Shape – for extra learning!

• Make the shape more complicated
• Don't draw in the internal lines
• Time how long it takes your child to solve the puzzle
• Don’t use paper – get your child to build same shape as you without any help, other than looking at your shape themselves

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