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Find the Shapes in a Picture
Use coloring to remind young learners that geometry is all around them! A simple image of a house, sun, and tree becomes the format for several basic shapes. The instructions direct scholars to trace and color each shape using a...
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Animal Colors and Shapes
Students investigate the natural characteristics of animals by completing a coloring activity. In this animal properties lesson, students investigate the reasons different animals have specific colors, and how it is essential for their...
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Soft Sculpture Birds
Art can mimic life, and animals are always interesting subjects. Learners create large soft sculptures (stuffed) birds using paper, paint, and other basic collage materials. They view images of birds, and discuss bird traits and shapes....
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Shapes and Colors
In this shapes and colors worksheet, students analyze a picture of a house that is made with squares, rectangles and triangles. Students follow the directions to trace and color each of the geometric shapes they find in the picture.
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Shapes and Colors: Robot
In this shapes and colors worksheet, students analyze a picture of a robot and trace the squares and rectangles they find. Students color the shapes according to the directions.
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Shapes and Colors Practice- Squares
In this geometric shapes worksheet, students learn to recognize the square shape. Students analyze a picture of birthday packages and trace the squares and color them red.
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Shapes and Colors- Square Pyramid
In this geometric shapes worksheet, students recognize the square shapes in a pyramid picture. Students trace the squares and color them each a different color.
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Animal Masks
Learners create wonderfully animate animal masks out of balloons. They use the papier-mache technique to create three dimensional animal masks taking care to consider color, shape, texture, and the animals' features.
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Scavenger Hunt: Creature Features
For this animal/science worksheet, students participate in a scavenger hunt to locate a variety of animals with different shapes, sizes and colors found in a zoo.
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ABC and 1-2-3 Farming
Students demonstrate how to alphabetize animal names. In this word study lesson, students identify animals that live on the farm and conduct a favorite farm animal survey. Students order animal pictures in alphabetical order.
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Woodsies "Extraordinaire"
Allow your class to use their imaginations and create fun creatures with various wooden shapes and other embellishments. What a great way to encourage your young artists to stretch their minds!
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Shapes and Colors: Rectangles
In this rectangle shape and color worksheet, students trace a set of six rectangles and color each a different color. Students also color a picture of a train made from rectangles.
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Making Pictures from Smaller Shapes
Students investigate shapes. In this dimension and orientation of shapes lesson plan, students identify and color shapes, use shape stamps to form animals, glue shapes together to make other objects and describe how shapes are used.
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Cut Outs: Shapes and Symbols
Students create collages based on Juan Quick-to-See Smith's "Ode to Chief Seattle." In this shapes, symbols and Native American lesson, students examine the "Ode to Chief Seattle" and Henri Matisse's cutout work. Students design their...
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Triangles and Circles
In this colors and shapes worksheet, students recognize the circles and triangles and the colors yellow and orange. Students trace the circles and color them yellow and trace the triangles and color them orange.
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Forest Dwellings: Toad House
What a great project to use as part of an exploration of animals or habitats. Learners design a clay model of a home for a forest animal. This could be a great way to cement what your class has learned about habitats.
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Looking at Leaves
Discover the Colombian rainforest through a presentation that follows a young girl named Chayo. Chayo describes her daily life, exploring the rainforest filled with plants and animals. After getting to know Chayo, scholars go on a nature...
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Shape and Colors: Rectangles, Squares, Triangles, Ovals and Circles
In this shape and color worksheet, students trace rectangles, coloring them brown, squares, coloring them grey, triangles, coloring them purple, ovals, coloring them neon green, and circles, coloring them blue. Students also color a...
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Shapes and Colors: Squares, Triangles, Circles, Rectangles and Ovals
In this shape and color worksheet, students trace squares, coloring them blue, triangles, coloring them green, circles, coloring them red, rectangles, coloring them orange, and ovals, coloring them purple.
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Shapes and Colors: Rectangles, Squares, Triangles, Ovals and Circles
In this shape and color worksheet, students trace rectangles, coloring them brown, squares, coloring them grey, triangles, coloring them green, ovals, coloring them neon green, and circles, coloring them red.
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Shapes and Colors: Triangles and Rectangles
In this shape and color learning exercise, learners trace all triangles in a set of 4 different shapes and color each one green, then trace all rectangles, coloring them brown. Students trace and color 5 triangle "trees."
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Squares and Ovals: Face Picture
In this shapes and colors worksheet, students analyze a whimsical picture of a face and trace all the squares and ovals they see. Students color the shapes according to the directions.
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Circles and Squares: Lemonade Picture
In this shapes and colors learning exercise, students analyze a picture of a glass of lemonade and trace all the circles and squares. Students color the shapes according to the directions.
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Triangles and Rectangles
In this geometric shapes worksheet, students study five pictures of trees made out of triangles and rectangles. Students follow the directions to trace and color the shapes they find in the picture.