Basic Shapes

My little one was introduced to shapes a long before and to extend that knowledge, we also had some shapes themed activities last week.  

To teach about straight line and curved line, I started making the basic shapes using straws. After completing the first shape – triangle, my little one asked, “Ma, How can we make circle and oval shape using this? We cannot bend this.”    How sweet! That’s what I want!

Then we cut the straws into very small pieces and made the circle.

I read in an article that sewing can be introduced even at the age of four.  So, this is the right time to introduce some simple hand sewing patterns.  Before that, I wanted to introduce her what is sewing.  Here are our hand sewn shapes.  Number of sides on one side and corners/vertices another side.

We also made some shapes collage. We cut geometric shapes and glue them to make different images.

Leaf Art

Arts and crafts are very important for child development.  Kids create something new using their imagination and it improves their cognitive skills. Hence, I always encourage my child in such activities.

Leaf art is one of my favorite arts and I thought of creating some leaf animals and birds with my little one.  The following are some of what we created.  

We used fresh leaves and it began to shrink after few hours.  Hence, press the leaves in books for few days and then use it for better results.