Imagination through Shapes

Wednesday morning I decided to just cut three circles, three triangles, and three rectangles. I laid them out on the table and gave Selena piece of red construction paper.

I handed her one of each shape and asked her what she could make with them. She made everything from a snowman, train, dinosaur and a tree.

I then added one more circle and asked her the same question. This time she made a train, tree man and made up a new dinosaur named goobyspetasourus.

The more shapes I gave her the more confusing it got for her, so I arranged them a few times for her to see if we couldn’t get her creativity going.

It was very obvious with more shapes the more difficult it was for Selena to make much of anything. She did make up many different dinosaurs like a cluepacesaurus. We just began to talk after this exercise. I asked Selena why she kept making dinosaurs and she informed me that it was because the shapes reminded her of dinosaur bones. I asked her if she wanted to grow up to be a scientist who studies dinosaurs and she informed me that no she wanted to grow to be like me, a grandma, and a teacher. I asked her if she was going to teach in a school, and she said no she would teach at home just like her grandma does. She then wanted to be the teacher and I had to be Selena. She gave me all the shapes and asked me how many dinosaurs I could make.