Learn about geometric shapes and practice drawing sensational squares, terrific triangles, and other perfect polygons!

• 1.

  How many different geometric shapes can you name? Using scraps of gift wrap paper and Crayola® Erasable Colored Pencils, draw lots of small images of your favorite geometric shapes. Cut out the shapes with Crayola Scissors.

• 2.

  On construction paper, lay your shapes in a pleasing mosaic pattern, leaving spaces between the pieces. Attach with Crayola School Glue. Dry.

• 3.

  With Crayola Gel Markers, draw lines and designs in between the geometric shapes for a quilt-like effect.

Standards

• LA: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about kindergarten topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups.
• LA: Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience with appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details, speaking clearly at an understandable pace
• MATH: Recognize and draw shapes having specified attributes, such as a given number of angles or a given number of equal faces.5 Identify triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, and cubes.
• VA: Use different media, techniques, and processes to communicate ideas, experiences, and stories.
• VA: Use visual structures of art to communicate ideas.

Adaptations

• Possible classroom resources include: Shapes, Shapes, Shapes by Tana Hoban; The Greedy Triangle by Marilyn Burns; Captain Invincible and the Space Shapes by Stuart J. Murphy
• In addition to creating the mosaic box, students can cut paper shapes and post them on a bulletin board. Students provide the name of the shape and a description of the attributes that assist with identifying the shape.