ORGANIC PUMPKINS

A shape is flat. We talked about two families of shapes... the shape trains we made were geometric shapes because they have perfect straight lines and nice even curves. When you cut or fold a geometric shape in half it has symmetry, it matches, it is the same on both sides. We sorted some shapes and found that the geometric shapes had names like square, circle, triangle, rectangle. The other family of shapes is called the ORGANIC shapes. These are shapes that go in all different directions, they do not have perfect straight lines that match of nice even curves. When you cut or fold an organic shape in half, it DOES NOT have symmetry, it does not match, it is NOT the same on both sides.

A pumpkin is NOT a perfect circle, it is an organic shape. It is bumpy, wavy and curvy. We drew organic pumpkins --- not jack-o-lanterns and used oil pastels to color and smear and smudge them to look more rounded on the paper. Instead of just orange, we used red, orange and yellow. Take a look at our ORGANIC PUMPKIN PATCH!