stART Shapes Revisited

 

I wanted to do one more activity with Three Pigs One Wolf and Seven Magic Shapes before I return it to the library. We read the story again and looked at the shapes. I then took Selena’s crayons and asked her how many shapes she thought she could make. The only rule was she couldn’t draw them, she had to use the crayons themselves to form the shapes. I didn’t give her any assistance on this, she was all on her own.

She made a triangle and informed me it took 3 items to make a triangle. We discussed how the three items made the 3 sides of the triangle, with 3 corners.

She thought about this hard and long, then made a square. She was pretty excited when she was done. Again she informed me it took 4 items to make the square. We discussed how it took 4 items to make the 4 sides and 4 corners. At this point she was just so excited with herself that she had made a triangle and a square, that I knew there would be no more shapes, so we just started having some fun.

Selena put a crayon in the center of her square, which she was pretty proud of doing, then I showed her how to balance a crayon over the top of that.

I am linking up at A Mommy’s Adventure and at JDaniel4’s Mom.