Geo-state-board?

I love the geoboard.  I love it because the kids love it... and they learn while having fun with it.  If you are unfamiliar with what a geoboard is, it's basically a mathematical device (pegboard) used to explore basic geometric concepts.

Madeline was playing around with it earlier today and made a familiar shape.  She stops for a minute, just staring at it, and then tells me that the shape looks like "that state right next to California".  She wasn't sure what the name of the state was, so she ran upstairs with the geoboard to look at the US map on the wall, and came downstairs with this new design.....

From left to right: Nevada, Kentucky, and Illinois.  The bottom shape represents Kansas.  I thought this was a really interesting interpretation of geometric shapes in relation to the states. (For the record, the original state shape she made which caused her to go upstairs was Nevada.)