When teaching kindergarten about shapes, you may make these giant, magnetic "ColorForms" to demonstrate how to make pictures of objects out of circles, triangles, squares, rectangles, crescents, and octagons. I did this in student teaching and the kids loved it. I even let them practice with them before creating their shape pictures. In the lesson, the students were instructed to cut out as many shapes (octagons, crescents, triangles, squares, rectangles, and circles) as they could. All of the shapes were separated and put on Styrofoam meat trays with the shape drawn on the edge. In the next class each student was given a unique checklist of different numbers of each shape. The students then gathered those shapes, checked them off when they had enough of their shapes, and created a picture of something (anything they wanted, but of something), by gluing the shapes to the paper.
On black paper, using Prisma Color colored pencils, students drew candy color field drawings from observation. There were 9 still-lifes created by hot gluing candy to a piece of Bristol Board and numbering them. I numbered them so that they could be checked out each class and there is record of which students were using what still-life. This was done in a high school drawing 1 class. It made it easier to remind the students that the candy forms were all forms they already knew how to draw mostly being different spheres and cylinders. I did the project with two students working from each still-life. Be sure to give them a piece of hard candy every once in a while when their working well!
