1st Grade- Organic Shapes and Different Lines

1st grade students need to know organic shapes and thick, thin, straight, and curved lines. So I thought, why not combine all of these into one project?

We started this project by using 6 x 6 inch pieces of tag board. Students had to draw an organic shape on their tag board. I instructed them to draw it pretty big and told them to not make it super funky because we don't want it to be hard to cut out. After the organic shape was drawn in pencil, they cut it out.

Next I gave students a 12 x 6 inch piece of paper and told them to trace their organic shape on it 3 times. We also want the shapes to overlap. After they were finished tracing their shapes with pencil, they went back over all of their shapes with a marker. Then in each space they added straight, curved, thick, or thin lines. I informed them that a line can be both straight and thick, straight and thin, curved and think, and curved and thin.

Finally, they glued the 12 x 6 inch paper to the middle of a 12 x 18 inch colored paper. And for the last step, they cut the edges of the colored paper to make an organic shape.