What's it shaping up to be?

I cut shapes out of construction paper in a variety of colors and sizes. I challenged C "Can you make a sailboat? A house? A tree?" and he arranged the shapes to his interpretation. I also took a turn creating and asked C to guess as I added shapes to see how quickly he could figure out what I was making. C also created freely and had me guess what he'd made.

*Variation: Once you've made an arrangement you like, glue it down on another piece of construction paper for an art piece.

The Shapes We Eat

Pick a time frame to pay special attention to the shapes that we eat. Pizza is a circle, cut into triangles. Crackers are round or square or even ovals. Graham crackers are rectangles but can be broken into squares or smaller rectangles. Oranges are spheres. Cheese slices can be cut with cookie cutters. Shapes are all around us!

*Extension: Cut out magazine pictures of food shapes.

*Extension: Play this game in a restaurant while looking at the menu.