Shapes in Art Lesson Plan and Activities

We are nearing Thanksgiving. As I write this I am wondering “Why did we not make turkeys out of shapes?” I am also wondering why my one year old is refusing to nap today. I will never know the answers to my questions… So, instead, I’ll concentrate on some shape art lesson plans. HA!

Lesson

Liam and I had a lot of fun with these activities. The lesson itself was simple and straight forward with lots of review…which left lots of time for creating!

I have never really given tracing a lot of thought in all my years of teaching. But when it comes too tracing for younger children there is a big difficulty level difference between tracing the inside of a stencil versus tracing the outside of a stencil.

So, we made out own stencils!

It got a bit crowded with supplies at the table and this momma had to take some deep breaths and realize that creativity comes at a cost!

What We Learned

By the end of the lesson, he was able to:

explain what a shape is
create their own artwork using shapes

He also now has a good understanding of many new vocabulary words such as:

shape

My entire lesson plan can be purchased here.

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Other Great Resources

Here are some great resources that are not included in my Lesson Plan but that I felt were still worth mentioning. And I’m sure I’ll come back to these when we have space time throughout our week.