Whether you’re a parent, teacher, or homeschooler, this printable pack is filled with engaging polygon activities designed to make math meaningful and fun.

What’s Included in the Polygons Activity Pack?

This downloadable activity pack includes a variety of worksheets that encourage creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving—all while reinforcing key geometry concepts like sides, angles, and shape recognition.

Here’s what’s inside:

• Polygon Robot – Build a robot using different polygons and label each part.
• Polygon Roll & Build – Use the dice template to randomly select polygons and create your own robot.
• Polygon Pizza – Design a delicious pizza slice using only polygon shapes and count each one.
• Polygon Zoo – Complete adorable animals by drawing specific polygons as instructed.
• Polygon Detective – Search for hidden polygon shapes in a cityscape scene (like triangle roofs or octagon stop signs!).
• Polygon Sorting – Cut and paste activity to sort shapes into regular and irregular polygons.
• Polygon Riddle Match – Solve riddles by matching descriptions to the correct polygon shapes.

Why Use a Polygon Activity Pack?

Learning about polygons doesn’t have to be dull! This pack:

• Builds foundational geometry skills
• Encourages shape recognition and classification
• Supports fine motor skills with cut-and-paste activities
• Includes creative drawing prompts to keep learning fun
• Works well for classrooms, rainy day learning, or math centers

Perfect for KS1 and KS2 children, these printable worksheets make geometry come alive through creative tasks and real-world connections.

More Fun Geometry Crafts & Printables

Pair the Polygons Activity Pack with some of our other fun learning activities:

• DIY Painted Terracotta Plant Pots with Herb Puns
• Tissue Confetti DIY Decorated Photo Frame
• Make Your Own Vintage Map Tray
• Candle Making for Beginners

These activities help extend shape learning into art, craft, and STEM play.

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Let’s make learning shapes fun again—with robots, pizzas, and zoo animals all made from polygons!

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Whether you’re a teacher, homeschooler, or parent looking to supplement your child’s learning, these worksheets make understanding data representation both easy and enjoyable.

What’s Included in the Graphing Pack?

This free printable pack includes a variety of worksheets designed to introduce and practice four key types of graphs:

• Bar Graphs – Great for comparing amounts across categories.
• Tally Charts – Ideal for quick, simple data collection and counting.
• Pie Charts – A fun introduction to fractions and percentages.
• Pictographs – Perfect for visual learners who thrive with images.

Each worksheet features engaging prompts and questions to reinforce comprehension and critical thinking skills.

Why Teach Graphing?

Teaching children about graphs supports their development in:

• Math and numeracy skills
• Logical reasoning
• Visual literacy
• Data interpretation and presentation

Graphing also encourages children to ask questions, look for patterns, and make predictions – all important steps in scientific thinking and everyday problem-solving.

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You can print just the pages you need or use the full pack as part of a week-long math unit. Perfect for key stage 1 and 2 learners.

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More Learning Printables You’ll Love

If you enjoy these, check out some of our other free educational printables:

• Where Maths and Art Collide: Creating Parabolic Curves
• DIY Fun Phonics Game with Tsum Tsums • Creative Learning for Kids
• How to Make a Paper Plate Clock for Kids with Moveable Hands • Easy DIY Craft
• Capri Sun Pencil Case – Upcycled Fun

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I am not going to lie, even though I understand maths, it isn’t my forte. It is over 30 years since I left school and the way I was taught maths is not the same today. Plus, in all honesty approaching math problems as a parent when you may solve it differently to the school can create a divide between you and your children. I know in an ideal world we would all love to have a tutor to help our children learn, especially after the learning gap that lockdown created, but I know just how cost prohibitive that can be, which is why Mathpid is such a great application. You get free access to the unlimited daily topics and maths camera (read on to find out just what they are)……

About Mathpid App

Mathpid is an AI (Artificial Intelligence) driven app developed by a team of experts with over 42 years of teaching experience who developed this app in conjunction with experts from Silicon Valley and also with research and input from over 300 teachers and tutors to ensure that students are kept engaged, learning and motivated to improve their maths skills. They also worked with Professor Minhyong Kim from Oxford University, Edinburgh Institute for International Mathematical Sciences to ensure the long-term validity of usage of the app.

The Mathpid App turns passive engagement with technology into real-world hands-on educational learning experience where students can instantly solve maths problems and be rewarded.

How does Learning with Mathpid Work?

Whether you have a math-phobic child or one that excels at maths and therefore can be likely to make mistakes due to boredom Mathpid will work for your child. I have one child that makes silly mistakes due to overconfidence and another who just zones out due to the repetitive nature of a lot of maths learning tools. Mathpid allows your child to study independently at their own pace due to the AI aspect of the app.   The AI Math Tutor ensures that your child works to their level and that maths problems are no longer boring or repetitive. Instead, they build your child enthusiasm and interest in mathematical concepts using a customised solution. Unlike other academic apps that have pre-filmed videos which are uploaded from time to time, The AI Maths tutor is always relevant.

You start with the Math Skill Diagnostic Test where the AI Math Tutor conducts a diagnostic test to judge your child’s level in Math and accordingly the Math App Tutor will personalize the course in order to improve your child’s overall performance.

There are daily and weekly Missions and also topics such as Addition, Decimals, Fractions, Equations, Division, Multiplication and Subtraction if your child wants to focus on one skill at a time. Your child creates their own character that guides them through the lessons, getting instant feedback on the challenges and then awarded badges and praise to encourage them to keep on learning.

In addition to the AI-driven learning you can download unlimited maths problems by concept and level allowing for offline learning too using its worksheet function.

Mathpid also comes into its own with its unique Maths Camera where you can take a photograph of a mathematics problem and the AI can help you with that too, by explaining the concept – Yes, the AI tutor recognises handwriting and allows your child to practice similar questions at their skill level too. For me this is brilliant, it doesn’t give them the answer rather it guides them with the topic, so they actually develop the ability to answer it themselves. Genius!

Benefits for Your Child

• Motivates reluctant mathematicians.
• Boosts maths skills by giving a deeper understanding of concepts including addition, subtraction, division, multiplication, fractions, decimals, proportions, equations and more at your children’s skill level.
• Encourages a child’s enthusiasm for Maths.
• Productive use of screen time.
• Makes maths a fun activity rather than just associated with learning and school.

Benefits for Parents

• Anytime – Anywhere with the 24/7 access Mathpid provides this math learning helper can easily be used anytime, anywhere meaning that you can capitalise on your child enthusiasm for screen usage!
• Cost – Even before the cost of living crisis and recession tutors were expensive and Mathpid is an excellent free alternative with proven results. The AI tutor provides a tailored 1-to-1 solution to your child.
• Instant feedback – It takes your understanding out of the equation using the math camera you can check your children’s homework with them and solve problems that you might not be able to and also practice similar questions.
• Ad-free experience – Mathpid assures ads-free usage. I think this is ace as it prevents any break in concentration while studying.
• Versatile and great user-experience – This app runs on all smartphones and tablets (Android or IOS software), so it’s accessible to all.
• It allows you to keep track of your children’s progress.

Mathpid covers age 4 to 16 in English with integrated maths games called Math Farm and Go Pilot aimed at kids ages 7 to 10 years of age. I think it is a brilliant addition to a parents tool kit and an excellent wat to build your kids confidence in math at their own pace. It is also a brilliant cost effective home education tool that will be a great addition to your curriculum resources.

My best friends 11 year old has been testing it out for me. He started Secondary school in September and even though he is pretty good at math the whole experience of learning in Secondary is different from Primary school and he has really enjoyed using Mathpid and his mum can really see the benefit of the math camera and only wishes it had been around for her three older boys! Using the app for 12 weeks increases a child’s learning level (on the app) to a level 7. He used the app to brush up on his equations (the topic he is currently learning) and improved his correct answer rate to 93% without any adult input at all, so I can really see thatMathpid is an effective learning alternative to a tutor.

Download Mathpid Now

• At the Apple App Store (https://bit.ly/3sauv9X)
• On Google Play for Android (https://bit.ly/3sauv9X)

When I say he switched off, I mean he slept in excess of 16 hours a day, though this lessons, his dinner and turned pretty nocturnal. I totally get it. The lessons the boys’ school provided were excellent within the constraints they had, but they were one-way video lessons aimed at a whole class.

Since going back to school he has been much better and he is finding school much more engaging. He has had three commendations and we have learned that he thrives in a class environment with collaboration rather than being talked at. The fact of the matter is he has missed a chunk of his education. Yes, the school is doing what they can so that he catches up, but we wanted to nip any educational slip in the bud.

TuitionWorks provides online maths tuition that is one to one with a teacher. Mini wasn’t all that keen to try online maths tuition especially after his experience with online learning with school during the pandemic, but I persuaded him!

How it works:

1. First off you go online (or you can call) to make an appointment for a FREE 15-minute initial assessment. They send you the link for the assessment and your child completes it before moving on to the next step.
2. A 15-minute chat with your tutor, which is still FREE and they discuss the results and expectations and what will happen next. This is great for making sure your child is secure in what is coming next and how it will work. it really takes the anxiety out of the tutoring session that comes next.
3. Your child is then scheduled for their one hour lesson with the tutor they met on the 15-minute review. The sessions range from £35-75 per session. ( There’s also an introductory offer below – so make sure you check that out).

TuitionWorks have kindly offered my followers a completely free maths tuition session using the code MUMINTHEMADHOUSETWFREE This offer is subject to availability.

I was really worried that Mini would hate it and not learn anything like he did Live lessons at school, but I couldn’t have been more wrong. He really found the tuition helpful to the point that he said it would be a great idea to do more nearer his GCSE’s. He “met” with his tutor Sonia during the 15-minute chat and she talked about which GCSE exam board he was learning with and also the gaps in his knowledge from the initial assessment and if he agreed with them and what he felt his weaknesses were. They discussed what he wanted to focus on and how the tuition would work using the online interactive whiteboard.

So he was totally prepared for the first online tuition session. He felt that he covered so much during that house session. He said about the same as a month’s school lessons! I think the fact that he got immediate feedback and one to one help made a massive difference. He actually came away feeling empowered and buzzing at what he had learned. Having a brother only an academic year older who is naturally talented at maths is not easy. He always compared himself to his brother even though we don’t. The tuition gave him a real boost.

I was worried that it was going to be a waste of money and time, however, I was delighted to be proven wrong. It was such a joy to see my child absorbed in learning again and actively wanting to discuss what he had learned. It had been a long lockdown for both him and us.

A Parents Opinion -Was it worth it, Especially for a teen that did not engage in Live Lessons?

Hell yes! I say that enthusiastically and emphatically. He loved it and learned so much in just one hour. We will certainly be considering it after his mock exams next year when we know where he needs additional help. So I can say that Online Maths Tuition for Teenagers was a hit from our point of view.

As someone that was a shielder through lockdown, I like the fact I am not inviting a stranger into our house to tutor my teen and that it is without a contract, so we can use it on an ad-hoc basis or pay for a block with the assurance that it will be the same tutor each time. That enables the Tutor to develop a rapport with my teen and understand their strengths and weaknesses. For us, it is all about building resilience and working on his confidence and improving his skillset.

A Pupils Opinion on Online Maths Tuition for Teenagers

I found the tutor really helpful as it was one to one and they give you feedback immediately rather than having to wait. She explained it really well and I liked that it was the same exam board that I am using at school. She also made me feel really at ease and not embarrassed.

The interactive whiteboard is really clever as you can pull things from the textbook to it and the tutor can see exactly what you are doing and vice versa. I thought the hour would drag, but it didn’t and I learned much more than I would in an hour at school with the specific teaching I needed rather than it is aimed at a class.

I will definitely not worry about having any help when it comes to my GCSE Exams next year.

These free colour by number printables are so fun, a fabulous combination of colour and numbers perfect for children. They are a quick activity and easily printed making them low prep as all you need is a printer, paper and some colouring pens, crayons or pencils.

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Follow the colour key and watch the image come to life before your very eyes. The more you colour, the more the picture comes alive. Younger children can learn their numbers and colours. Older kids follow instructions in a creative way. They are a great quiet time activity.

I have gone for really simple images and colour by number worksheets, but if you like them, let me know and I am do some more challenging ones.

I find worksheets are a great activity for when I need to keep the kids occupied whilst I crack on with dinner. I can set them up at a table or on the breakfast bar in the kitchen.

These are also great to take to restaurants (remember them!) to keep kids occupied whilst waiting for their food.

Children can work on their math and also take on the challenge of finding the right shade matching each number.

It is really easy for you to turn any of our colouring pages into a colour by number worksheet simply by adding your own key. Make them interesting for your children by finding images that follow and coincide with their current hobbies and loves or use seasonal images.

Colour by Number Books to Buy

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We’re having fun with a sparkly activity today.  The rain has been creating puddles and our garden is one huge mud kitchen – and so as our oldest has been learning about pirates at school – and we were lucky enough to visit the HMS Victory in Portsmouth last week, we’ve decided on a pirating theme today to cheer us all up.

My boys love collecting little objects in boxes – toys, marbles, pennies, anything they find in the forest.  They also love decorating their treasure boxes and this activity combines the two.

Pirate booty maths game with gems

How To Play Pirate booty maths game with gems:

Measuring and Estimating with Ribbons – A Simple Activity

This is a fun activity that my boys love.  Ribbons and twines are great for kinaesthetic learners and keep smaller children engaged whilst older children are challenged by the use of measuring equipment.  You can use non-standard measurements if you don’t have a ruler or tape measure – straws, lollipop sticks, anything straight – and then when your little ones are ready to start reading measurements, you can graduate to using rulers.

In our house, we start this activity without the ruler or tape and estimate or guess which little bundles are going to be the longest and why – and then we start measuring.

Using a Ruler/Tape Measure

Reading a ruler can be tricky. The little notches and striations seem meaningless – and explaining centimetres and millimetres before we even consider inches can be difficult at best for little brains.  We start with whole centimetres as we use the decimal system in schools and society and go from there.  Whole and half centimetres come next, and then millimetres and decimal points follow after that. There’s scope for talking about rounding up and down, and estimating.

Tricky Issues

Estimating is difficult for children to revert to after learning to measure as they have a natural tendency to want to be “right” and feel that estimates are wrong – and need to be correct.  Reassure your little one that estimates are just guesses and are fun to make.  It’s fun to be surprised sometimes, and there’s no need to be right all of the time.

Equipment

For our activity, all you need is varying lengths of ribbon, string or twine, and a ruler or tape measure.

How To Use The Baskets

Wind the ribbons up into little spools and place them into a container – we had these little picnic baskets at home that made for fun little holders.

Each child has a container or ribbon and then the activity is open ended.

Empty out the spools and estimate which will be the longest ribbon or twine. Why do they think that?  Place them in order of which they think is longest to shortest.

Using the ruler or tape measure, take their estimate of the longest and show how to start at the 0 and stretch the ribbon out until the end.  Think about what they should do if the ribbon is longer than the ruler (if you are using one).

Children who are comfortable writing numerals can record their findings in any way they like. My boys enjoy drawing the ribbons [make sure you use ribbons of different colours in this event] and writing their numbers by them.

There are so many ways to explore measuring, estimating and rounding with rulers and tape measures – take the lead from your little one and support them in their exploration.

See our other learning with manipulatives posts here:

• Maths Game with candy
• Fun phonics game with collectables 
• Maths game using stickers
• Sensory Tic Tac Toe or Noughts and Crosses

 Other great measuring activities

W is for Whale {Measuring Activities} from Preschool Powol Packets
Watermelon Seed Spitting Measurement from Schooling a Monkey
Measuring Distance with Water Guns from Teach me Mommy
Measuring and Estimating with Ribbons from Mum in the Madhouse
Just How Big Were the Dinosaurs? from Bambini Travel
Measuring Toys from Play & Learn Every Day
Grow a Duck Weighing Activity from Something 2 Offer

Today’s game is a maths one, that we play quite often as children without realising that we’re learning. As it’s after Easter we’ve got quite a few jelly beans in the house but you can use any snack you’d like.

Maths Jelly Bean Game

To play our Jellybean Jumble Maths Game, you will need:

Little Sweet Bags (UK Link) or Cups (UK Link)
Jellybeans
A Price List
Customers

It takes minutes to set up. Simply draw and price your snacks as a little menu and distribute a mixture of the snacks in each bag. You can do this randomly or strategically – for example, if you’re trying to teach number bonds.

So, the menu sets out the cost of each item and then in each little bag or cup is a combination of the menu items. There are a few ways to play this and differentiate depending on the age and ability of your little ones. Mine are 4 and 6, and as I want them to play together, we’ve taken a very simple approach and are adding the jellybeans up.

The boys take it in turns to bring a customer to the shop. We’ve used our Yoshi today. They select a little bag of beans and take them to the checkout person. Upon emptying the bag, the beans are placed against the menu and then the totals are added.

If the total is correct, the player wins the bag of beans!

Extensions to the game are easy – if you have coins around the house, you can play with these to reinforce the real-world connection, but the maths alone can be fun.

Once the bags are all sold, your little shopkeeper can restock their shelves by creating a bag worth a specific price – and see if they can assemble more than one possible jellybean combination for a particular price.

There are so many ways to play – and they can be as challenging as necessary, whilst still having fun. How cool is it to have a jelly bean game.

• How Many Cows on the Farm Counting Game from Life Over C’s
• Gold Fish Measurement Math Game from Learning 2 Walk
• Teach Preschoolers Fractions from Preschool Powol Packets
• Feed The Penguin from Adventures of Adam
• Jelly Bean Maths Game from Mum in the Madhouse
• How Many Goldfish in the Bowl Game from Play & Learn Everyday
• Cheerios Number Tracing from Schooling a Monkey
• Fish Cracker Color Patterns from The Kindergarten Connection

At first glance maths and art might appear to be worlds apart, but if you really look closer you will see that maths is full of patterns and these patterns can be complex, decorative and beautiful.  Creating a parabolic is a great way to see how maths and art connect.

Parabolic Curves

Using art to explain maths concepts is also a great way to encourage creative people to love maths too, as well as the other way round.

Maxi loved the fact that he could make a curve from straight lines!

We started with the simplest curve.  If you have younger children then you could use less numbers.

It really is as simple as drawing lines from number 1 on the x axcess to number 1 on the y axis and then doing the same for all the numbers.

Once you have mastered drawing with the numbers then you can do it without the numbers on the top of the page.  It is also great fun to colour it in once you have drawn it.

As you can see Maxi really enjoyed drawing all the graphs and now it was time for the fun part colouring in.  We discussed the fact that the curve was an optical illusion and that it also gave the impression of 3 dimensions too.  It is a great way of introducing perspective into the conversation too.

Download your free parabolic graph templates

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As you can see you can create beautiful artwork from the graphs that we produced.

It has been really interested doing art with the boys and linking it to maths.  It has been so long since I used my brain in this way and it reminded me of an article I had seen about using your brain in order to keep it sharp.  I often leave the math to MadDad (he is an accountant) even though I trained as an accountant too.  I think that he finds it easier as his brain is already in number mode, whilst mine tends to be in creative and word mode!

I have resolved that I am not going to take the easy option anymore and just get him to help the boys, but I am going to rise to the challenge and ensure that I keep up with them and keep learning and exercising the muscle that is my brain.

This is part of the cool maths for cool kids series

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