Get creative with our fun dress-decorating activity! Choose from 10 different dress designs and let your child use colorful shapes to create their own unique style.
We have brought you a great opportunity for children to learn creatively with this activity. You can teach children several lessons through this activity. Shapes, patterns, colors, selection, and shorting are some lessons from them. You can use this activity to learn a subject of your children’s interest.
I have included 10 activity-related templates above. The way the activity is shown is also an image. It will be easier for you to take the example of that image for the activity.
Here you are given 10 dresses of different styles. All the kids have to do is decorate the clothes colorfully and beautifully. For that, they can use the colorful shapes provided. So now let’s see how to do this activity.
How is this activity performed? :
Material Required:
1. 10 colorless A4 sheets. (To print the given templates.)
2. Color sheets. (To cut different types of shapes.)
3. Scissors
4. Glue
How to do this activity:
Step 1: Take a printout of the given templates on colorless A4 size papers.
Step 2: Separately cut the dresses from the printed templates.
Step 3: Take sheets of several colors and cut out several types of shapes from them—for example, triangles in green, and circles in purple. You can use these colors as you like.
Step 4: Distribute the cut clothes among the children.
Step 5: Distribute the cut-out shapes to the children.
Step 6: Instruct the children to paste the shapes on the dresses and decorate them.
Experience this activity with children following the easy steps above.
Lessons that can be taught to children using this activity:
- Shapes: In the above activity, children have to decorate clothes using shapes. For this, children can use different shapes like circles, triangles, squares, rectangles, ovals, heart shapes, flower shapes, etc. So you can use this activity to develop children’s shape knowledge.
- Patterns: You can see how the dresses given here are designed in different patterns. Stripe patterns, zig-zag patterns, and wave patterns are the patterns that can be seen in these dresses. Children get the opportunity to see and recognize those patterns through this. Additionally, Children’s artistic abilities can be developed through their pattern knowledge.
- Color: The shapes given to children are in different colors. With this, children are able to recognize and name colors. At the end of the activity, the children’s attention is drawn to the color of the dress they have decorated. This activity is a great opportunity for you to introduce colors to children.
- Selection and Shortening: Here you can see that the patterns of dresses are divided into sections. In those sections, children can choose and stick to one type by shape or color. This teaches children to choose and shorten.
- Arts and Crafts: You can prepare this activity for children under this subject. This improves children’s creativity. It also teaches children to think creatively.
At school, you can use this activity as an assessment at the end of a lesson.
Why is this activity essential for children?
This activity helps children understand many lessons. Children learn from their experiences. Therefore learning through experience is more important than oral or written education. The reason for that is the way children’s minds work in this age range.
So, through these kinds of activities, children gain new experiences.
Another purpose of this assignment is to make children study in a fun way. The desire to learn in children increases through it. What they willingly learn is permanently embedded in children’s minds.
These activities allow children to do it individually. This helps the teacher to get a better understanding of the children about each other. This is a good opportunity for the teacher to check how far their children have acquired their knowledge. Likewise, after identifying the children, it is a reason to correct the child’s weaknesses and improve the skills.
What skills can children develop through this activity?
• Shape Recognition: This activity is done by associating shapes. It gives the children the opportunity to re-identify the shapes. And previous knowledge about shapes in children is renewed. All these help children learn shapes.
• Fine motor skills: pasting, cutting, and picking, these are all soft skills. These skills are developed in children through the activities they do. This activity also contributes to the children. Picking out each shape and sticking them together is a fine motor activity that children do.
• Problem-Solving: An activity is a challenge for children. Otherwise, it is a problem that needs to be solved. Children try to find answers to the problem by following the instructions given to them. So they think alone. It sharpens the problem-solving skills of children.
• Decision-Making: As this is an individual activity, children work independently. Children have to make different decisions during the activities. Children make their own decisions about which shapes to choose, where to stick them, the order in which they should be placed, etc. This improves the decision-making ability of children.
• Color Exploration: As this is an individual activity, children work on this activity and also help children identify colors by doing this activity using different colors. So children understand the most suitable color combinations for the designs through the beauty of the colors of the dresses.
• Self-Expression: Children are satisfied with their actions at the end of their activity. Showing it to others builds self-esteem. This is an opportunity for children to express their personal style.
• Focus: Attention is one of the hardest things to build in children. Activities like these help children practice. In order to finish it, attention should be paid to the activity of the children. And the reason to focus is patience.
• Creative Thinking: It is important to give children the freedom to think while doing this activity. Children have to make different decisions to increase the beauty of asthma. It encourages them to think creatively. Direct children to such activities to develop creative thinking in children.
As a teacher, you have several responsibilities in leading the students to this task. Some of them are,
- Facilitating the use of equipment and materials provided to children.
- Allowing children to work freely and happily.
- Offer your support when help is needed.
- Encouraging children to finish the activity.
- Evaluate the children at the end of the activity.
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