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Shapely Animals
Submitted by: Matt Baumgartner     Translated by: Matt Baumgartner

Outline: Students draw animals using the shapes they are taught. This is a very easy and basic activity, which teaches kids to recognize shapes in animals.
 
Teaching Suggestions:
  • This activity works great as a follow-up lesson to teaching animals.
  • Keep this activity between 5-10 minutes or students might become bored.
 
Procedure:
  1. After the students receive an A4 size piece of paper, their mission is to draw an animal using ONLY the shapes they learned that day.
  2. Give the students a time limit. This is a necessity; otherwise, they might spend the entire class period drawing the perfect mouse.

 

Variations:

  • Once all the students finish drawing, have the students show the rest of the class their animal and explain the shapes they used.
  • Race to see who can draw an animal using all the shapes learned.
  • Instead of animals, have the students draw cartoon characters, monsters, friends, family, famous people, etc.

 

Tips or Cautions:

  1. Sometimes younger students have difficulty choosing an animal to draw. If this should happen, assign them an animal.