FaBOOLous Shapegrams for Halloween
Celebrate the spookiness of October with Shapegrams! - The Witch Icon Zipper involves layering black shapes to make a silhouette.
⬜️🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️ - The Witch's Hat Zipper layers circles it create a curved look by layering ovals.
⬜️🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️ - The Mansion Lesson shows how to make a custom gradient and use keyboard shortcuts to move objects backward.
⬜️🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️ - The Spooky Things Lesson demonstrates how to flip and precisely position shapes.
⬜️🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️ - The Eye Lesson show how to draw a vesica piscis shape by aligning two chord shapes.
⬜️🟩⬜️⬜️⬜️ - The Spider Web Lesson shows how to draw a web by resizing shapes from their centers.
⬜️⬜️🟪⬜️⬜️ - The Posable Skeleton Lesson is all about drawing for symmetry by grouping shapes, flipping groups, and aligning groups. The skeleton takes some time to draw, but it's worth it when you can move groups to make fun poses.
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- Bonus: The new Dill Pickle Zipper uses block arcs and circles to create a very bumpy pickle. It actually looks quite unsettling and somewhat spooky.
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Lo-fi Halloween MusicLo-fi music has a mellow, minimalist sound that creates a relaxed vibe. This time of year, you can stream "spooky" LoFi beats on YouTube. These tunes are great to play in the background while students are working on Shapegrams. 
One More Halloween Shapegram
Check your inbox next week for the deBOO of a new Halloween-themed Zipper! To keep you curious, here are the shapes that make up the picture. 
"Witch" Shapes? Before setting students loose on a Shapegram, you might consider asking them to analyze the picture. Let them predict which shapes were used to build the image. Discuss which parts of the drawing will be most challenging. Taking just a few minutes to think about the digital art before creating it can spark curiosity and set them up for success. You can print this Shapes Sheet PDF, cut it in half, and give it to students so they can circle or color the shapes they think were used in a Shapegrams picture. 
Spooky Smiles from Iowa,
Tony
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