Sign Up
School Account Sign Up
Contributor: Morgan Haney. Lesson ID: 13965
Shapes are all around you -- in your home, in the art you see, and in all the crafts you make! Practice building shapes from your favorite craft supplies!
Take a look at this cool and colorful piece of art:
Looking at it all together, it just looks like a bunch of colors. If you look closely, though, you will see a lot of shapes you probably know.
Many artists use shapes like circles, rectangles, and triangles in their art. In this lesson, you will get to use your favorite craft supplies to make your very own shape art!
Before you create your own shapes, let's review the shapes you know!
Practice your shapes as you watch the video below. Shout out the name of each shape that pops up!
Learning Simple Shapes | 2D Shapes Practice | Scratch Garden from Scratch Garden:
Great job practicing your shapes!
The main shapes you will build and draw in this lesson are circles, squares, rectangles, triangles, and diamonds. If you are unsure about any of these, watch the video again to make sure you know what they look like!
Now that you remember all your simple shapes, let's talk about how you make those shapes. The main thing to focus on is how many sides a shape has.
Awesome!
Now here is a tricky one.
When you know how many sides a shape has, you are halfway to being able to make that shape.
Now, all you need to know is how long the sides are.
The difference is that all the sides on a square are the same length, but a rectangle has two long sides and two shorter sides.
So if I wanted to build a square out of sticks from my yard, I would make sure all the sticks are the same length. If I wanted to build a rectangle, I would find two short sticks and two long sticks!
Now that you've learned what you need to know to make a shape, move on to the Got It? section to practice making and drawing shapes!
Supplies
We help prepare learners for a future that cannot yet be defined. They must be ready for change, willing to learn and able to think critically. Elephango is designed to create lifelong learners who are ready for that rapidly changing future.
FAVORITE
Like