art activities for shapes lesson plan?

I need an art activity that involves shapes and geometry. I am reading ” The greedy triangle” by Marilyn burns to the children. my objective for the children is to reconize geometric shapes in the enviroment, and to understand everything is made up of shapes. What activity would go along with this? It has to be an art activity and one I can do cheaply. I mean like with paper, markets, crayons and contruction paper. Anything that is easy to get and probably is already in the art room. The age is early elementary.

After reading the “Greedy Triangle” (great book, by the way) have the children choose a shape. You can either cut some out before hand on white paper or have the children do it themselves… depends on their ability.
After they choose their shape they can either:
a) Make the shapes into “people” by decorating them, adding characteristcs, etc.
or
b) Make the shape that they chose look like something they would see everyday. Ex. A circle could be made to look like a clock, etc. With this one it would be a good idea to brainstorm ideas for each shape before the project begins. Make a list on the board!
Have fun!
or
c) Have a bunch of pre-cut shapes out for the students to make something out of.

Blick Lesson: Flexible “Glass” Sculpture”

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