Build a Picture from Shapes

Use simple shapes as a starting plan, then turn them into your own drawing.

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Look for big shapes before adding small details. A square can start a house, a triangle can start its roof and a rectangle can start its door. Shapes are guides, not rules about how all houses must look.

Worked example

Draw a square wall, place a triangle roof above it, then put a small rectangle door inside the wall. Add your own window or path. You can change the design; the example is one possible picture.

A square wall, triangle roof and rectangle door form a simple house with two square windows. — This is one possible picture. Add your own ideas on paper.

Would you believe it?

Two pictures can start with the same three shapes and become different designs. A plan can support imagination without choosing every detail.

Your Paper Drawing

On blank paper, make one house using a square wall, a triangle roof and a rectangle door. Add two windows of any shape. Point to each big shape, then describe one detail you added. The five questions check the example's shape words, not whether your art looks like someone else's. No upload is needed.

Question 1 Which shape starts the example's wall? Circle Square Triangle

Question 2 Which shape starts its roof? Triangle Circle Oval

Question 3 Where is the example's door? Above the roof Inside the wall Outside the page

Question 4 How many windows does the paper activity ask you to add? Answer

Question 5 Which is a useful first drawing step? Place the big shapes before small details Require every artist to draw identically Erase every original idea

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