Circle Creatures
This lesson was inspired by the creativity of http://kidslovecraft.blogspot.com . I call this cute lesson "Circle Creatures",we focused on the shapes particularly the circle. This gave my first graders practice tracing and drawing circles. Supplies used: 12 x 18 inch construction paper (variety of colors) 4 x 5 inch white paper and black paper 6 x 6 red paper Scissors Glue Pencils We started with one 12 x 18 inch piece of construction paper folded in half. I gave each table a laminated circle to use as a stencil. We've learned in class that if you fold your paper in 1/2 you will get two of the same objects. So, we traced our circles and cut them out. This always get excited when they see 2 shapes come out. Next, one of the circles is folded in 1/2. The kids used the cue "fold it like a taco", it worked, and they remembered. We glued the "taco" to the other circle to form the mouth. Next, we took w...