Today’s Activities: Shape Art

If you dont want to confine his imaginations to that shape, let him first paint/colour on a plain sheet of paper, just the way he wishes to and then cut it into shapes. While drawing the shapes with pencil & ruler keep speaking about how it is a 3 sided figure or 4 sided , it has 4 angles, square – 4 equal sides, circle has no corners, etc. Use method 1 or 2 and paste it either on a large A3 size art paper to put on the soft board or paste it on the paper plate.

Ok this one was a real struggle for me as a mom and I have no qualms about admitting that I googled google up to get ideas on how to teach shapes. Phew!!! Yes I am a mom who doesn’t give up. I am an Indian and we are taught to work hard. One of the activities I loved and my daughter enjoyed doing thoroughly. I don’t know if this contributed to her learning the shapes finally or not but I know I tried and what’s most important is that she had a blast. 🙂

So we are doing SHAPE ART which is extremely easy and you can do it in multiple ways. Please dont stress yourself with the supplies just make do with whatever you have at home.

Supplies:

1. Plain Paper/Coloured Paper/Chart Paper

2. Crayons

3. Paints( incaseÂ your kid enjoys that more)

4. Scissors

5. Ruler & Pencil

6. Paper Plate

7. Fevicol/Fevistick

Method

1. Cut paper into a large geometric shape (circle, square, triangle or rectangle) and have your child colour/paint that shape. Pin it on his softboard

2. If you dont want to confine his imaginations to that shape, let him first paint/colour on a plain sheet of paper, just the way he wishes to and then cut it into shapes. While drawing the shapes with pencil & ruler keep speaking about how it is a 3 sided figure or 4 sided , it has 4 angles, square – 4 equal sides, circle has no corners, etc. You may feel that you are talking to the walls but trust me repitition always finds its way to rebound into your children’s ears.

3. Use method 1 or 2 and paste it either on a large A3 size art paper to put on the soft board or paste it on the paper plate. Alternatively you could paste them on ring /circular magnets and stick it on the fridge.

Notes: I always keep ring magnets handy to get the craft onto the fridge. It helps reiterate things better.

Please ensure you paint all shapes different colours or the same colour incase you are emphasizing on one colour. Either way ensure you do colours along.

Do teach the basic shapes to begin with and don’t overload with a parallelogram & pentagon & octagon etc.

Have Fun!