Pacca Alpaca: Basic Shapes
Pacca Alpaca spots circles, squares, triangles and rectangles in clocks, drums, chips and trains, then asks children to find some. For ages 4 to 9.
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What is Pacca Alpaca: Basic Shapes about?
Pacca Alpaca: Basic Shapes is an animated video for children aged 4 to 9 in which Pacca Alpaca helps them spot four basic shapes, the circle, the square, the triangle and the rectangle, in everyday things.
Pacca Alpaca is a fantastically fluffy guide who travels the world with children, discovering languages and cultures along the way. This episode opens at a blackboard, with Pacca juggling shapes. Then each shape is named out loud, shown in big letters, and traced with a bright coloured outline on real photographs and film.
Children find circles in googly eyes, bongo drums, the wheels of a toy car and the great clock face of Big Ben. They find squares in a sheet of green paper, a cushion, ravioli, brownies and a square clock. Triangles turn up in tortilla chips, a wedge of cheese and a folded wrap. And there are rectangles everywhere: a shelf, a microwave, a train, a phone and the windows of a tall office building. Pacca joins in, dressed up for some of the shapes, and the four names come round again and again.
At the end, the video hands over to children: "Your turn! Find some shapes!" It lasts about eight minutes and is not music-free.
What your child will learn
- The circle, square, triangle and rectangle are four basic shapes.
- Everyday things are made of shapes we can spot and name.
- A square has four equal sides; a rectangle has four sides, two long and two short.
Talk about it afterwards
- Can you find a circle in this room? And a square, a triangle and a rectangle?
- What shape is a clock? What shape is a door?
- How is a square different from a rectangle?
- What shape was the cheese in the video?
Frequently asked questions
What age is Pacca Alpaca: Basic Shapes suitable for?
Children aged 4 to 9, especially young children who are learning to name shapes.
How long is Pacca Alpaca: Basic Shapes?
About 8 minutes.
What does Pacca Alpaca: Basic Shapes teach children?
The names of four basic shapes, and how to spot them in everyday things such as clocks, doors, chips and trains.
