A soccer ball is made of many flat shapes joined into a ball.
Little pentagons and hexagons fit together. Together they curve into a round sphere you can kick.
💡 Shapes 3D — Fun Facts
Fun “Did you know?” facts about Shapes 3D — tap through 10 at a time!
Bubbles always float as spheres, the roundest 3D shape.
No matter how you blow them, bubbles turn round. A sphere is nature's favorite bubble shape.
A pyramid has a flat bottom and sides that meet at a point.
The famous pyramids in Egypt have this shape. The pointy top reaches up to the sky.
A cylinder is a 3D shape shaped like a can or a log.
It is round like a tube with flat circles on the ends. A soup can is a cylinder.
A cone is round at the bottom and comes to a point on top.
An ice cream cone and a party hat are cones. The pointy tip makes them easy to spot.
A cube is a 3D shape with six flat, square sides.
Dice and sugar cubes are cubes. You can stack cubes into a tall tower.
A ball is a 3D shape called a sphere, round all over.
A sphere has no corners and no flat sides. Balls and oranges are spheres you can hold.