Grow Me. Grow You.

Shapes.




I thought this would be a fun project for Apollo and I to work on together. After we made them, we practiced naming them. He did a great job (he probably remembers them from the decorations more than the shape-but it's a great start). This would be a great project for anyone who babysits or a fun gift for or to make with kids. Here's what we did:


1. For most of the shapes, I Googled the shapes (eg. I put triangle outline) I wanted and clicked on "see full image" and copied and pasted it to a word file. There I made it the size I wanted and printed them off. The shapes I did were circle, moon, star, square, parallelogram, triangle, pentagon, hexagon, octagon, nonagon, decagon, and heart. I might have gotten a little carried away. My high school chemistry students had to learn them so I figured might as well teach him while he's young.




2. Cut them out of the paper and trace onto shoe boxes (cereal boxes or anything hard would work). Cutting them out was kind of a bugger.



3. Spray paint. It took a few coats.




4.Decorate. We used the glue to stick the stuff on and I also poured glue all over the top of everything so it would stay on better.



This was a great project because:
-it didn't have to look perfect
-it held the little one's attention because we used so many things to decorate
-he could help out
-we could use odds and ends from stuff we already had

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