Pacca Alpaca: Triangles
Pacca Alpaca finds triangles in road signs, chips, bunting, rooftops and pizza, then asks children to find some. A two-minute video for ages 4 to 9.
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What is Pacca Alpaca: Triangles about?
Pacca Alpaca: Triangles is an animated video for children aged 4 to 9 in which Pacca Alpaca helps them spot triangles in the world around them.
Pacca Alpaca is a fantastically fluffy guide who travels the world with children, discovering languages and cultures along the way. This short episode is part of his shapes series. It opens on a blackboard covered in chalk shapes and the word "Shapes!", and then a hand draws a triangle with a ruler.
After that, the word "triangle" is said again and again as triangles appear in real photographs and film, some of them traced with a bright coloured outline. There is a road works sign, with Pacca in a hard hat, and a musical triangle played beside a piano. There is a coat hanger, a pile of tortilla chips, a string of flowery bunting, the pointed roofs of red brick houses and a wedge of cheese that two cats are sniffing. Pacca pops up in a feathered hat beside a little wooden house, and in a chef's hat beside a pizza.
At the end comes the challenge: "Your turn! Find some triangles!" At about two minutes, it is short enough to watch more than once, and it makes an easy game for home: look for triangles in the kitchen, on the street or in a picture book. It is not music-free.
What your child will learn
- A triangle is a shape with three sides and three corners.
- Triangles are all around us, in signs, food, clothes hangers and buildings.
- We can play a game of finding shapes at home.
Talk about it afterwards
- Can you find a triangle in this room?
- What triangles did Pacca Alpaca find?
- How many sides does a triangle have? Count them with your finger.
- Which foods in the video were shaped like triangles?
Frequently asked questions
What age is Pacca Alpaca: Triangles suitable for?
Children aged 4 to 9, especially young children who are learning to name shapes.
How long is Pacca Alpaca: Triangles?
About 2 minutes.
What does Pacca Alpaca: Triangles teach children?
The triangle, and how to spot it in everyday things such as road signs, tortilla chips, bunting and rooftops.
