Small Medium & Large Shapes

Shapes and Shape Bugs

After being introduced to the Art Room rules and procedures, the first two projects I like to do are based around basic shapes and sizes.  With these projects I am introducing the Kindergarteners to basic concepts that we will not only be using and re-visting throughout this school year, as the students continue to venture down their artistic paths.

The first part of the project involved a group game where the students help to sort out a variety of shapes into the correct size categories.

Our Sorting Game-The students were able to walk up to the
SMART Board and drag the different shapes into the correct categories.

Part 2 of our Small, Medium, and Large project series involved the students picking from a pile of shapes on their tables.  These piles were made up of small, medium, and large triangles, squares, and rectangles.  The students had to select a small, medium, and large shape from the pile and then glue those 3 shapes down in order of smallest to largest.

The final stage of our Small, Medium, and Large lesson had students create a Shape Bug using small, medium, and large shapes.  We viewed a PowerPoint, that showed the students how our Shape Bug was created. The students drew along with the slides as our Shape Bug started out as a medium circle and grew to 4 medium circles with small shapes attached to it.

Here are some examples of the great Shape Bugs the students created.