What are hexagons?

A hexagon is a shape with six straight sides and six corners, just like having six friends all holding hands in a circle.

Imagine you're playing with building blocks. If you take six of them and connect them so that each one touches the next, the shape you make is a hexagon. It’s like a six-sided cookie cutter, if you press it into dough, you get a perfect hexagon every time.

A hexagon has something cool in common with a honeycomb. Bees use hexagons to make their cells because they fit together perfectly without any gaps. It's like when you and your friends all squeeze into the same blanket, no space left over!

If you look closely, some stop signs are also hexagons, but they have six sides that are all the same length, just like a perfect cookie.

You can draw one too! Start with a straight line, then make five more lines, each touching the last one. When you get back to where you started, you’ve made your very own hexagon! A hexagon is a shape with six straight sides and six corners, just like having six friends all holding hands in a circle.

Imagine you're playing with building blocks. If you take six of them and connect them so that each one touches the next, the shape you make is a hexagon. It’s like a six-sided cookie cutter, if you press it into dough, you get a perfect hexagon every time.