CIRCLES
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Serve banana or carrot rounds. |
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Toast English muffins and serve with fruited cream cheese. |
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Bake round sugar cookies to frost. |
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Serve round crackers, such as Ritz.
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SQUARES
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Bake corn bread or banana bread in a square pan. Cut into smaller square pieces. |
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Cut sandwiches into 4 square pieces. |
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Serve square crackers with cheese spread, or square cheese slices. |
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Make gelatin finger squares by leaving ½ cup of the water out of Jello recipe and chilling in a square cake pan. Cut into mini jiggly squares. |
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TRIANGLES |
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Cut cinnamon toast diagonally into 2 triangle pieces or 4 smaller triangles. |
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Serve triangle crackers with cheese slices cut into triangle shapes. |
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Serve mini triangular pizza slices.
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HEARTS
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Make red finger gelatin and cut out heart shapes using a small heart cookie cutter. |
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Make heart shaped sugar cookies for your children to frost. |
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RECTANGLES
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Serve rectangular French fries. |
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Serve graham cracker rectangles with white frosting on top. |
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Make a cake in a rectangle pan. Before cutting the cake have your children notice it’s shape.
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OVALS
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Serve navy bean soup with oval crackers. |
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Serve deviled eggs or hard-boiled eggs sliced lengthwise. |
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Serve other beans with an oval shape. |
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DIAMONDS
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Cut bread into diamond shapes. |
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Make diamond shaped finger Jello pieces for your children.
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GENERAL SHAPE SUGGESTIONS
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Cut a shape in a piece of bread with a cookie cutter. Then take another piece of bread, top it with a large cheese square and then place the cut piece of bread on top to make a shape sandwich. |
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Cut large cheese slices with a cookie cutter to make cheese shapes. |
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Look for crackers in the shape you are studying at the store. |
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Use pretzels to make squares, triangles and squares. |
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