Practising Drawing Simple Shapes and Objects
Practice and revise: drawing everyday objects like a house or a ball using circles, squares and triangles.
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A circle can become a sun or a ball. A square can become a box or a house. A triangle can become a roof or a mountain. By joining shapes together, we can draw many objects around us.
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- A circle, square and triangle are simple shapes.
- Objects around us are made of simple shapes.
- Draw lightly with a pencil first, then colour.
- Joining shapes makes new pictures.
- Practising simple shapes helps with drawing complex objects later.
- A book can be drawn using a rectangle.
- Looking at real objects helps us see their basic shapes.
- Shapes are the building blocks of drawing.