I got the idea for this project from Art Room 104, who in turn got it form K-8 Art. In K-8 Art, the instructor precut the shapes for them, and both teachers gave the students only primary colors. I chose to have students use their choice of colors from my scrap bin. On day one, I asked students to use familiar shapes, squares, rectangles, triangles, circles, and then on the second day I talked about weird shapes and showed them leaves and blobs. A lot of the students had trouble realizing that these were also shapes. They were really attached to the idea that if it didn't have a name, it wasn't a real shape.
