Fill in Shapes

Using the opposite side of our home-made dry erase sleeves for practicing the alphabet, I created hand-outs with dashed circles, creating two different activities. The first of which is a dry erase trace, and writing practice that the children can do anytime. The second of which is, given a canister of play-doh each, the children mold, mush, push and pull the doh to fill the space inside the dotted line. Doing this inside the paper-cover sheet allows for a really easy clean up, and no sticking. The first couple trys may come out a little funny and lumpy, and outside the lines, but as they practice their shapes, and working with the doh, their play-doh turns into colorful shapes! The first time, we were learning about the color red, so we all molded red circles. I have kids ask to do this activity over and over again!