what can be made with solid figures for a child’s arts and crafts project?
using solid figures such as cube, sphere, rectangular prism, pyramid, triangular prism and a cone. it does not have to be all of theses figures just some thing that can be made with one or two of them.
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Do you mean solid geometric “shapes”? Or were you thinking of making figures with them?
The shapes could be used to make all kinds of things, depending on their size and weight, and how large the items you wanted to make…. also how you would connect them together (and permanently or temporarily).
Of course, there are always “buildings,” but you might get more ideas from “building blocks” or other put-together toys or even from tangram puzzle shapes too.
(or you might want to explain more about the types of shapes you have, and what you want to make—how complicated, how big, how permanent, etc.)
Diane B.
Sphere + cone = ice cream cone
cube + pyramid = house
Pretty much anything you can imagine. In art class in elementary school, we were taught that to draw something, you must first reduce it to the most basic shape of all.
arandasam… apparently knows the concept. A tree is a big sphere on a skinny cylinder. A boat is a long flat cube with a pyramid on the front end. A person is a collection of cubes with an eggish sphere on top.
More detail & definition requires filling in with smaller & smaller shapes. Instead of a tree being one big sphere on top of a skinny cylinder, the one big sphere gets a bunch of smaller spheres added to the edges, so it looks kind of like a pile of bubbles or foam.
Make sure you have different sizes of your shapes & different proportions. For instance have big & little balls, but also eggs. Have pyramids with varying sharpness of the top point. And also try to have at least two of a shape so they can experiment with symmetry as well.