I had a great time cutting each shape and seeing how I could replicate the images in the math picture book, Perfect Square. Long thin “mostly” rectangles were fun to do when I found my old scrapbooking scissors. It was especially hard to do, so I’m sharing a picture of the bridge in this math picture book.Īnother day, Perfect Square was cut into ribbons with crinkle shears and makes itself into a river. The shattering resulted in 24 pieces – each a triangle or trapezoid. This one was fairly easy.Īnother day it was shattered, so it made itself into a bridge. One day the square gets cut into two triangles and crumpled up. I made a bunch of squares from construction paper to start.

But this optimistic shape uses the “abuse” to make itself into new and fun things each time. It’s inspiration for math crafts, playing with color and patterns and talking about shapes – all in one neat little package!Ī happy little perfect square gets cut, torn and shredded over the course of a week. I just couldn’t resist buying Perfect Square by Michael Hall! And what a treat it was! I rounded the corner at Barns & Noble one day and and this beautiful math picture book looked me in the eyes. You can purchase your own copy of Perfect Square by clicking the title in this review or by visiting my storefront by clicking here.This is part of the Math Picture Book series. Or try to recreate the images on the pages of Perfect Square. Washington Post Michael Hall, the New York Times bestselling author of My Heart Is Like a Zoo and Red: A Crayons Story, inspires creativity and resilience. 'Perfect Square' By Michael Hall Greenwillow, 16.99, ages 4-7 'Four matching corners and four equal sides': The words in white stand out on a resolutely red page, a perfectly square. Provide your nanny kids with a red square piece of paper, scissors, paste, and markers to encourage them to change the square and see what they come up with. In the photos above and below show the collages my Nanny Kids made on the left next to the pages of the book that inspired the collages on the right. My Nanny Kids loved recreating the shapes in the book and making up their own shapes as well. Read Perfect Square with your Nanny Kids to help inspire them to think outside of the box especially when creating art or design. Use Perfect Square to teach colors, shapes, art, math, writing, and adapting. With each new challenge from the unseen force, the square creates something new and beautiful. However, in the pages it is cut into tiny pieces, ripped into strips, and painted a variety of colors. The square starts out as a red, four cornered shape. Perfect Square is a square book about a square that undergoes many changes of shape and of color.

The perfect square by michael hall