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Blick Liquid Watercolor

For Teachers K - 12th
Introduce this abstract art to your class; they must chose ordinary classroom objects and shapes to paint with watercolors. The overlapping effect will create a fun, abstract piece of art!
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Tessellations: Geometric Patterns

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students create tessellation drawings using repeating geometric shapes.
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Putting It All Together

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students examine a painting.  In this shapes and puzzle lesson, students view Guston's painting Blue Water and identify the colors, shapes and recognizable forms.  Students work in groups to put together puzzle pieces of the...
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My Treehouse

For Teachers K - 3rd
If you could build your own treehouse, what would it look like? Using a piece of contemporary art as inspiration, learners draw their own treehouses and add geometric and organic shapes. The lesson touches on Visual Thinking Strategies...
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Quarters

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards
Set up youngsters for fraction success years down the road with this focus on quarters. They begin with examining five shapes that have been equally segmented into four parts. Using one example as reference, learners shade a quarter of...
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Applied Science - Science and Math (K) Lab

For Teachers K
In this shape lesson, learners cut out tangram shapes and create different pictures with them. They look at 3-D shapes as well. There is a nice, hands-on component built into this lesson.
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Applied Science - Science and Math Lab

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Create three dimensional objects in an applied science instructional activity. The goal is for your class to recognize, compare, and model shapes. Using cookie cutters and clay or play dough, they create models for three-dimensional shapes.
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Kites!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Let's go fly a kite! Little learners cut, glue, color, and design kites from a variety of materials. The step-by-step instructions are included along with three wonderful book recommendations. Tip: This project could easily be...
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Greek Pottery Designs

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Get creative while exploring the art and history of the ancient Greeks. Learners create construction paper representations of Greek pottery, focusing on the differences between geometric and organic shapes. This project could enhance an...
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Symmetry

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
Enhance your geometry lesson by working with shapes. Fourth graders follow lines of symmetry to complete ten shapes, most of them currently triangles. Have pupils color each half of their shapes to reinforce the idea of symmetry!
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Woodsies "Extraordinaire"

For Teachers Pre-K - 12th
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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Understanding Thirds

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
Combine geometry and fractions with an innovative worksheet. After your lesson on 1/3, have second graders shape 1/3 of each geometric shape. Shapes include squares, circles, rectangles, and polygons. In the second section, pupils write...
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Back to School Pencil Favor Boxes

For Teachers Pre-K - 6th
Check out these charming back-to-school pencil and eraser boxes and create your own using the templates provided in this resource.
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Practicing Circles

For Students Pre-K - K Standards
Get your writers ready to print curved letters using this whimsical worksheet. They trace 14 circular elements in an underwater scene, following the arrow and trying to stay on the dotted line. There are large and small circles here to...
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Triaxial Blends: Ceramics Lesson

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
To me, art implies color. Your class can learn all about triaxial blends, glazed colors, and ceramics. Included are the step-by-step instructions needed to teach learners how ceramic glazes developed, color blends, and how to measure and...
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Caterpillar Circles

For Students K - 1st
In this shape recognition worksheet, students trace the circles in the caterpillar and color them each a different color. Students then trace the 6 circles at the bottom of the page.
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Dotted Lines And Shapes

For Students K - 2nd
In this dotted lines and shapes worksheet, learners trace each of nine different dotted lined shapes and then color in each shape with a different color.
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Oval

For Students Pre-K - K
In this shape recognition activity, students trace an oval with a blue crayon, connect the dots to make an oval with a green crayon, color the oval any colors, and draw an oval on their own.
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Tracing Rectangles

For Students K - 1st
In this shape recognition worksheet, students study the various sizes of rectangles and then practice tracing the different types of rectangles.
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Color the Spring Adjectives

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
Grammar enthusiasts test their adjective knowledge with a instructional activity that challenges them to color each word a specific color based on the type of word that is found inside it. When complete, scholars discover a bright...
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Shape Flower

For Students 1st
In this shape recognition activity, 1st graders identify colors and shapes by coloring the flower according to the shape recognition directions.
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2D Shapes (1)

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this shape recognition instructional activity, students study each of the shapes and then write the names of the two-dimensional polygons on the lines.
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Animal Colors and Shapes

For Teachers K - 5th
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...
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Color Half Part of the Shapes

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this fractions worksheet, learners color in half of six shapes. There are six various shapes for students to color in.

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