Let's learn about shapes
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 Lesson 1 

How are shapes made!

We have learnt that everything starts with a dot.
And if you connect two dots, you will create a line. 
Connected lines become a shape.
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 Lesson 2
​Primary shapes 
Three basic shapes are: triangle, square and circle. 

A triangle is made by connecting 3 dots and 3 lines and has 3 sides and 3 angles.
A square is made by connecting 4 dots and 4 lines and has 4 sides and 4 angles. 
A Circle is made out of one continuous round movement. A circle has no angles.
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Activity  1
Spot the primary shapes 
Take a drawing pad and draw any object you can find with these primary shapes. What shape is the plate? Or what shape is your room's door?
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Activity  2
After finding primary shapes, now find shapes around the house that are not primary. 
Then, cut at least 5 of the shapes out of paper and create a collage with them. 
We have created a dotted sheet for you to download and draw the shapes on. ​

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Alphabet of Buildings Series 

E for Eiffel Tower
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How tall can you build a tower of pasta?
Click on the image to download the colouring and activity sheets for this week's letter from The Alphabet of Buildings series. 

This week's lesson

How Drawing Begins!

In this week's activity, you will learn how lines are created from connecting dots. 
Then, you are challenged to do two different types of perspective drawings.

Inspiration

​Let's learn about colour wheels
​from Eadie
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Are you creating your own colour wheel?
​Let's take a look at a video from one of the little architects at SfCT to learn about it step by step. ​​​

School for Creative Thinkers™

Alphabet of Buildings Series 

As part of SfCTs' online creative education programme, we are launching the Alphabet Series. Each week we will take you through the Alphabet by presenting well known architectural buildings that begin with the same letter, covering historical styles, typology of buildings, and fun facts in architecture. 

Inspiration

​Let's learn about colour wheels
​from Eadie

Are you creating your own colour wheel?
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Let's take a look at a video from one of the little architects at SfCT to learn it step by step. ​​
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Online Workshops

Nature's Architects

We are bringing our popular workshop to your homes!
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​This 4 session course will have you and your children learning about creatures who build, buildings that have been inspired by them, and a bespoke activity each week for you to create!

The City of your Imagination​
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​Buildings:

1. ​Download and print the colouring sheet from the link below.

2. Paint the houses in your favourite colours. 
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* You can also sketch your own designs.
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​ The city:
1. Cut a paper diagonally.
2. Take one triangle and fold it in three.
3. First fold it to the left side.
4. Then fold the second part to the right side. 
* The diagonal cut gives height to your city. Use the front piece for shorter buildings and the back piece for bigger and taller ones. 
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​ And finally:
Glue or staple the houses on the paper.





Fun Facts
  • Tokyo has the most people in the world. 
  • Bolivia is the highest city in the world. 
  • The coldest city in the world is Yakutsk in Russia. 
  • Amsterdam has more bikes than people.
  • Toronto in Canada has tunnels underground so it is possible to live  without ever coming out from underground!​
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Want to make some paper trees for your city?
Follow the steps below:
1. Fold a paper in half
2. Draw a tree shape 
3. Cut out the tree
4. Open and fold the tab to easily stick it on a paper. 

Let's learn about colour 

Colour is an important and crucial aspect of our world, not just in nature but also when shaping and designing our cities and environments. 

One of the ways that children observe and categorise what they see is by colour. We have provided you with some fun and educational activities that encourage children to observe and define their surroundings through different colour palletes.
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All our activities below can be played indoors as well as outdoors, using toys, household items and imagination! 

The activities encourage children to design with different colour palletes or make their own, using photos and magazines.

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Activity
Let's start with some colouring. 
*To download the worksheet please click the download button here:
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 Lesson 1 
 Colour Wheels

What are primary colours?
Answer: yellow, red and blue

Fun Fact

Isaac Newton's experiment with light led to his theory that red, blue and yellow are primary colours. 

What else can you find out about colour by doing some research? Send in your finds and we'll share them with the community. 

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By mixing equal amounts of two primary colours, you can make secondary colours. 
Orange = Yellow + Red 
Green = Blue + Yellow
Purple= Red + Blue 
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Inspiration

​Let's learn about colour wheel from Eadie

Are you creating your own colour wheel?
Let's take a look at a video from one of the little architects at SfCT to learn it step by step. ​
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Activity 
Play with colour wheel
Go around your room or garden and find objects, toys, or plants
​that match every colour on the wheel. Place the items next to the colour that they represent. Take a photo and send it in!

​What is your favourite colour? What items in your house have that colour?

See the example below of a colour wheel created in a garden.
*To download a printable colour wheel please click the download button here:

No printer?

Let's make a colour wheel using the rim of a round object and trace a circle onto a paper. Then, draw straight lines to make six, or 12 equal pie pieces and colour them with the primary and secondary colours.
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Make your own colour pallete
Choose an image from around the house. It can be a family photo or a poster hanging on your wall. 

Create a colour pallete by choosing at-least five main colours in the photo. Using a combination of coloured pencils, or other mediums like cut-outs from magazines, try and put together a colour palatte that matches the image.
For example look at the photo below. 
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Create a pixelated image
Another fun way of exploring  usage of colour is to make a pixelated image from a photograph or painting.
*A pixel is the smallest element of an image that can be individually processed in a video display system.
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For this activity, use an image from a magazine or print out a photo.
Step 1:
Apply a grid on top of the image. 
Step 2:
​On a separate sheet of paper, apply the same sized grid. Then go square by square and paint each square in the grid  with its main colour. 

See the example below.
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 Lesson 2
 Design with other colour palletes

Rainbow 

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Activity 
Make your own rainbow
Make your own rainbow by rearranging the books in a book shelf in rainbow colours. 

Did you know that  you can only see a rainbow if the sun is behind you and the rain is in front?

Fun Facts

  • The first colour a baby sees is red. 
  • Pink is the most relaxing colour.
  • Colour affects taste and yellow makes you hungry. 
  • Mars gets its red colour from iron, the same element that gives blood its red colour. 
  • Mosquitos love blue. 
  • The colour orange used to be called  “geoluhread,”  which means yellow-red until 16th century in England. The word “orange” was adopted after the fruit was brought to England from Asia by the Portugese.​
  • Purple is rare in nature and represents meanings like wealth and wisdom. 

Monochrome

The use of shades of one colour is called a monochrome colour scheme.
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Activity 
Let's try some interior design work
Go around your home and choose objects with the same colour and then arrange them in one place, or create a drawing or collage in various shades of one colour.
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​By limiting your colour palette what have you learned or observed?

Fun Facts

  • The male bowerbird is one of nature’s most colourful designers. He will spend a long time collecting objects to decorate his home.
  • Every bowerbird has his own personal decoration style and favourite colour.​​​
  • As you can see in the photo below, the bowerbird has designed his ‘U’ shaped home with shades of only one colour - blue.

Social Media

Please send us an image of your children's illustrations to share in our next newsletter and social media.
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Donations

Creativity matters, so here at SfCT we are taking our regular design and architecture programme online and we  have created some fun and creative online education activities. 
If you have enjoyed our activities, please donate to the Museum of Architecture's School for Creative Thinkers to enable us to keep posting. 
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