#20 Bring Variety

Bring Variety

Tape a large sheet of paper to a wall, or draw on a board. You can use this activity as “baby yoga” that teaches balance, strengthens the upper body, and helps to stretch.

Offer various art materials – paint, chalk, markers, brushes, crayons, rollers, stamps, glue plus sparkles… Different media inspire different hand motions, patterns, shapes, and geometric ideas! For example, children usually make lines with fine markers, fill areas with wide brushes, and “jab” the paper with very thick markers that make such satisfying dots.

Kids often find it inspiring, or at least funny, when beautiful geometry terms describe even mundane drawings. Use math language to say something nice about a detail or two: “I like these parallel curves – very smooth! And that acute, sharp angle is so dramatic!”