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Activity Plan Mixed Ages: Body Shapes

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Young scholars explore the shape of things as they bend, twist, and turn. In this early childhood lesson plan, students develop social, creative-thinking, and language skills and spatial awareness as they use their bodies to create...
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Cutting Positive and Negative SYMMETRICAL SHAPES

For Teachers K - 5th
Pupils cut intricate symmetrical shapes on the fold. Also, they identify positive and negative shapes and warm, cool and neutral colors. Finally, they glue shapes to create a pleasing design.
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Valentine's Day Fun

For Teachers Pre-K - 5th
Students choose various shapes and colors to create a Valentine's 'person'.  In this Valentine's Day lesson, students design collages, make prints and mosaic pictures.  More advanced students create a Tessellation using geometric shapes.
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Secrets of Painting

For Teachers K - 4th
Students explore colors and shapes. In this art concepts lesson, students discuss shapes, lines, and color while creating a variety of abstract designs. The instructions for several art activities are provided. Basic art vocabulary and a...
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Geometric Houses

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students identify the parts and functions of a house by creating a house made of geometric shapes. They listen to the book "Houses and Homes," and use cues from the story to help them build their homes.
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Add It Up Alligators

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars strengthen shape and pattern recognition, fine-motor and perceptual skills, encouraging imagination, play and sense of self within a group
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Discovering Art - Scott Gallery: Shape

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students study geometric, naturalistic, and abstract shapes in art. They review the names of shapes and name them in the portrait, Breakfast in Bed by Mary Cassatt. They simulate a baby as in the portrait and discuss the shapes. They...
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Dick Blick Art Materials

Woodsies “Extraordinaire”

For Teachers K - 12th
"This looks like an owl!" Kids get a chance to create all sorts of things by arranging various shapes, painting them, and gluing them together. A great way to encourage creativity and spontaneity.
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Two-Dimensional Geometric Shapes

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students participate in hands-on activities to explore the shapes in their environment.
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Geometric Shapes Collage

For Teachers K - 3rd Standards
Junior geometers practice stating the names of different geometric shapes. They define and name the different shapes and compare and contrast shapes to one another. They also relate the shapes to objects in the real world.
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Shapely People

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students create a person using various shapes and colors and then write a story about their person using Kidspiration. This is a great lesson for practice identifying shapes and writing stories.
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Kites!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Let's go fly a kite! Little learners cut, glue, color, and design kites from a variety of materials. The step-by-step instructions are included along with three wonderful book recommendations. Tip: This project could easily be...
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Lao Design: Lotus Flower Constructions

For Teachers K - 4th
Students create lotus flowers in 3-D designs applying Lao art techniques. Following a teacher demonstration, they assemble their own lotus flower candleholders and the teacher arranges a group flotation in a body of water. Students...
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Akron Art Museum

Storytelling Resist

For Teachers K - 5th
The illustrations of Ezra Jack Keats in The Snowy Day inspire young artists to examine shapes in illustrations and to use these shapes to create their own watercolor resist painting.
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Circles 1, 2, 3, 4

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Here is a way to help your charges identify circles and spheres. In this shapes geometry and technology lesson, students identify and draw circles and explain the related attributes. They recognize circles and spheres while exploring...
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Trace the Circles

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this circles worksheet, students practice tracing 11 dotted and different sized circles on the worksheet. Students practice the skill of tracing dotted lines.
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Kid Garden Math

For Teachers K
Students design a geometric garden. Shapes to be included are squares, triangles, and hexagons. After reading a book together about shapes, students get to use construction paper to cut out and design their own shape garden.
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Bonus Activity: Build a House

For Teachers K
Students complete a building activity using their knowledge of geometrical shapes, tools, and how to follow a plan from previous lessons in this unit. In this following directions lesson, students study the basic building process as it...
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Drawing Emotions

For Teachers K - 12th
Students examine how artists have expressed emotion thru use of line, color and shapes. They communicate a variety of emotions using line, shape and values to create form.
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Colorful Dogs

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students make dog collages using triangles and rectangles. In this collage lesson, students use cut-out triangles and rectangles to make a dog collage after looking examples of Keith Haring's work and listening to Emma Dodd's, Dog's...
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Landscape Book

For Teachers K - 6th
Students create a three-dimensional book about landscapes. They must show their understanding of shape, color and balance.
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Exploring the Musical Shape of Student Names in a One-Computer Classroom

For Teachers K
Students demonstrate musical direction while singing alone and with others while reading music. They discuss and demonstrate shapes that describe the music and compare that to melodic direction. Students make music out of the letters...
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Abstract Art: Line, Shape And Color

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students define and create an abstract art work. They introduce the artist Piet Mondrian and review geometric shapes (rectangles & squares), straight , angular lines, color.
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Abstract Art: Line, Shape And Color

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students create abstract works of art using techniques learned from the artwork of Piet Mondrian, construction paper, pre-cut shapes, and glue in this early-elementary Art lesson plan. A great lesson plan to introduce the concept of...

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