One look at a Picasso painting is all it takes to realize that faces are full of interesting shapes. A triangle can be a nose, eye, ear or even a tooth. Making your own shape faces can also help you teach kindergartners a lesson about feelings. Ask children to cut a variety of small shapes out of colored paper, then glue them onto ovals to make faces. Each child can make several faces showing different emotions, then students can take turns trying to identify one another's feelings faces.
There are few craft supplies you can find that are cheaper than toothpicks, and giving each child his own box means you won't have to deal with squabbling kindergartners. Children can create any flat-sided shape they can imagine by gluing toothpicks to dark paper. Figuring out how to create rounded shapes will be challenging, so ask children if they can find a solution to this problem. Many children will break their toothpicks into small pieces to create a circle, or come up with some solution that never occurred to you.
Ask kindergartners to look around the classroom or peek through a window and they'll be able to find examples of every shape they know. Making shape scenes can be a part of a lesson about nature or our homes or just an activity you do for fun. Ask each child to make a scene out of small paper shapes on large paper. Students may either use their imaginations or try to recreate their own bedrooms or the classroom using their shapes.
Kindergartners will have the freedom to explore and be creative when you give them very few instructions. With this in mind, let children use small paper shapes to create whatever pictures they want. Help each child cut out several dozen shapes of varying sizes from colored paper, then pass out pieces of white paper and glue and step back. One child may use nothing but triangles to make a palm tree on her paper, while another may create a half-robot, half-chicken using every shape he has.