Kindergarten: All Kinds of Lines Windsock

My sweet little kindergarden students made some sweet little windsocks that are all about line. 

These are the final products! They will be hanging in the hall by the end of the week *cough cough- hopefully- cough cough.*

 We started with white crayon. They wrote the word "Line" with a capital "L" reeeeally big on the front side of an 18"x"6 piece of black construction paper.

Then we flipped them over and wrote our name reeeeeally tiny on the top. 

One at a time we discussed different kinds of lines especially zig-zag, curly, wavy, dotted, and strait lines. Each time we talked about a line we re-created that line three dimensionally. We accordion folded a long strip of colored paper for zig zag. Wavy pipe cleaner. Straight streamer. Dotted line on colored paper. Curly ribbon. You get the idea. 

After each one was completed the students were to use their white crayon to draw that line above the streamer. See Kenadee's example below: 

Someone likes curly lines. 

I stapled these bad boys together, hole punched them, and tied some string in them to finish up. 

This lesson was AWESOME on so many levels. First of all- we finished in one class period even though we just HAD to take a bathroom break. Secondly, the kiddos learned so much. Creating each line 3D and 2D really helped the lightbulb go off for a few of the littles. Plus, kids are weird/ wonderful and are excited by the little things i.e. curly ribbon and bright colors.