Erin's Easel: Shape Pictures

Sunday, December 6, 2009

Shape Pictures

To help my younger children practice drawing simple shapes I made up some very simple drawings of familiar objects using the most basic of shapes. This is a fun way of sneaking prewriting practice to a disinterested toddler.

Materials Needed:

- Shape Pictures (See mine or make up your own. Please don’t make fun of mine-I imagined and created all of these in one night using ‘Paint’, which is not the most advanced software) :P

- Plain White Paper

- Pencils

- Colored Pencils or crayons

1. Let the Student pick out a shape picture to draw

2. Working beside the student (on your own paper, or course) show student how to draw the picture, one shape at a time. If the student gets frustrated (toddlers are like that) use hand over hand to help student make her shapes. This is practice, not perfect.

3. Now for the fun part! Let your imaginations loose and decorate your shape pictures in any way you wish. (yes, make your own-it is fun) Everyone’s are different and children will enjoy this part so much they will beg you to do another picture. Enjoy!

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John 1

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.
In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him. He was not the light, but came to bear witness about the light.

The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him.
He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him.
But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.