Shapes and Symmetry

I liked Sarah's shape matrices and what her daughter did with them and tried to make some shape templates:



Simple Shapes Cut-Outs (pdf)




















Paddy is learning about symmetry in art. Today I showed him the shape cut-outs and asked him which ones have at least one line of symmetry. He did pretty well!

• Here's a simple art project.
• More symmetrical art projects for kids including some autumn and Halloween themes.
  
• Here are some symmetry worksheets.
• Here's a symmetry game, for year 3, probably too tough for Paddy right now.
• A lesson plan with several activities.
• These Polish paper cut-outs are really cool!