Target Audience: Young Children. It includes a comic that is interrelated to the principles of shapes. Also includes activities that involve developing the concept of shapes.

2. Once upon a
time..
• Once upon a time there was a lovely little girl named Candy.
She had a happy neighbor named Cato. He was very kind.
Candy loved playing with her toy box. One day, she sat
playing with her square blocks from her pretty toy box.

3. • She looked at Cato who sat next to her. He was busy playing
with his new shiny bike that his mother had bought him for
his birthday. Candy thought something looked funny about his
bike .

4. “Cato ! Your bike looks funny!” Candy said as she
walked around it.
“No girl. My bike is the best ever! Can’t you see
that?” He boasted.
“But Cato, this is not going to work. You cannot ride
your bike like this.” She said still looking at his
bike.

5. • “Just you watch girly!” Cato said loudly.
• “No Cato! It is not going to work. I am telling you. The
wheels that make the bike are supposed to be round. Like a
circle Cato, like a circle.” Said Candy.

6. What is a
circle?
A circle is a round shape.
It has no straight lines
and no corners.

7. PICTURE OF A CIRCLE

8. CIRCLES

9. • Cato shrugs and jumps on his bike. Candy
does not know what she is talking about he
thought to himself. He put his feet on the
pedals of the bike and started to pedal But
nothing happened!

10. • “Why is nothing happening?” Cato said because he
was very confused. He thought that his bike was
not working! Candy looked at Cato and helped him
off his bike.
• “You see Cato. I told you that the wheels are
supposed to be like a circle on the bike. Your
wheels are squares. That is what I was trying to
tell you.”

11. What are
squares?
A square is a four
sided shape with
four edges. All
sides are equal.

12. Pictures of Squares

13. “Oh! I now see! So if I take out the squares and
put circles will it work Candy? Will it?” Cato
asked excited.
“Oh yes. It will work!”
Candy helped Cato take out the square wheels
from his bike.
“See now, it doesn’t look so silly.”

14. She laughed.“Oh Cato look!” she said a
bit surprised as she held up a square
block from the bike.“What Candy?” he
asked puzzled.“If you turn the square on
its edge you get a diamond shape. A
diamond Cato! Ouu.” She said fascinated.

15. Cato continued to take out the squares
from his bike. He held up two of them
together, side by side. He was confused.
It did not look like a diamond as Candy
had said.“Candy, what is this
thingy…”“Oh, that is a rectangle. It’s kind
of different right?”

16. What is a
rectangle?
• A rectangle is a four sided shape.
It has two long sides and two short
sides.

17. PICTURE OF A RECTANGLE

18. “Candy…but I was watching a cartoon yesterday and I
saw this really, really cool shapey with less that three
sides!”
“Oh…I think I know which one you’re talking about.”
she said.
“Does it have three sides and is kinda pointy?” she
asked.
“Oh yes! Right.That’s just like it.”
“That’s called a tri-an-gle.” she said slowly.
“Ohhhhh.Okay” Cato felt happy he knew what it was.
(Showing a picture of a triangle)

19. PICTURE OF A TRIANGLE

20. . Cato was hungry after all this talking.
Especially by Candy.“Come on. Let’s go get
some snacks Candy.”They both went inside to
the snack basket that mom had made for them.
“Take only one for the while Cato.” Oh he was
tempted! Mom wasn’t home. But Candy was. He
sighed.

21. He took out a pack of yummy marshmallows and gave
one to Candy. They sat on the floor of the living
room eating their snacks.“Oh look Candy. This
pack looks a little like a rectable.”“What on earth
is a rectable Cato?” Candy said utterly
confused.“A rectable. Like the ones we were
talking about outside.”

22. Candy laughed at how ridiculous Cato could be.“Oh
Cato. It’s a rectangle. A rec-tan- gle. R-e-c-t-
a-n-g-l-e.” She spelt it out for him.“Okay
smarty.” He said annoyed at her.She held up the
snack pack that Cato was talking about.“I guess it
does look like a rectangle.” Cato smiled proudly.

23. • “Mhm.” Cato shakes his head. There were so
many different shapes, he thought. He now
understood that he couldn’t have a bike with
square wheels and that even snacks had
shapes. Phew! And what was really interesting
for Cato was that each shape could be used
for something.

24. RHYMES ON
SHAPES
I am Cindy Circle. Watch me turn
Round and round and you will learn
I’m not straight and I don’t bend.
My outside edges never end.
Sammy Square is my name.
My four sides are just the same.
Turn me around, I don’t care.
I’m always the same. I’m a square!
Opal Oval is my name.
The circle and I are not the same.
The circle is round, as round as can be.
I am shaped like an egg, as you can see.

25. MORE RHYMES
ON SHAPES
Tommy Triangle is the name for me.
Count my sides- there’s one, two, three.
Ricky Rectangle is my name.
My four sides are not the same.
Two are short and two are long.
Count my sides. Come along- one, two, three, four.
I am Danny Diamond.
I am like a kite.
But I’m really just a square
Whose corners are pulled tight

26. ACTIVITIES. 1
Colour each shape according to the chart.
(square-red)
(rectangle-yellow)
(circle-blue)

28. ACTIVITY 2
DRAW ABOUT IT
DRAW SOMETHING THAT IS
SHAPED LIKE A RECTANGLE /
SQUARE/TRIANGLE /CIRCLE

29. WRITE ABOUT IT
WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE AND
WHY?

30. READ ABOUT IT
POEM ON SHAPES

31. TALK ABOUT IT
LOOK AROUND THE CLASS
AND FIND OBJECTS THAT ARE
CIRCLES/SQUARES/TRIANGLES
/RECTANGLES

32. • ACTIVITY (CLASS/HOME)
• USE RECIPIE AND MAKE
SHAPED COOKIES
• With the help of parent or
teacher..follow recipe and
create your own shape cookies.

33. • Ingredients
• 225 g butter, at room temperature
• 110 g caster sugar
• 275 g plain flour
• ground spices, or finely grated zest
(optional)

34. • Method
• 1. Preheat the oven to 170C/gas 3. 5. Carefully transfer the cookies
to a wire rack to cool. …enjoy
2. Cream the butter in a large bowl your shape cookies.
or in a food mixer until soft and
creamy. Add the sugar and beat
until the mixture is pale and fluffy
•
3. Sift in the flour and spices or
grated zest (if using) and bring
the mixture together to form a
firm dough.
4. Using your hands, roll the
dough into different shapes and
place them slightly apart on a
baking tray (no need to grease
or line). Flatten them slightly
with the back of a damp fork
and bake in the oven for 13–15
minutes, or until they are light
golden brown and slightly firm
on top.