Line Puzzles

Learn all about lines and how they can be combined into shapes and interesting images with this line puzzles craft.	Safety Tips Kids 8 years and younger should use child-safe scissors.
Materials Craft foam Construction paper Scissors Glue (optional)

Steps

	1.	Cut out different kinds of lines from craft foam or construction paper. Make some straight, curved, wavy or zigzag ones.
	2.	Show your child how to put the line pieces together to come up with shapes and images. Straight lines can make geometric shapes like a triangle, square, rectangle, diamond and star.
	3.	Curved lines can make a circle, an oval, or even a rainbow.
	4.	Combine the different kinds of lines and come up with other shapes or images such as a heart, house or sun.
	5.	Use your imagination and create lots of interesting things. Remember everything around us can be depicted by lines.
	6.	You can even make a simple picture or landscape. I've combined the lines to create a picture of a home, which includes a house, a car, a tree and clouds.
	7.	Here's a sailboat with a seascape background.
	8.	Glue the pieces on paper to create a framed composition or keep the line pieces for later use.

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