Seeing as students in Kindergarten often know the shape they want to make YET cannot make it yet, I always begin my collage unit using pre-cut shapes. Pre-cut shapes allows students to work with shapes, connect shapes and make "things" without the added frustration of making the shape you want but can't quite cut. Kindergarteners are notorious for having a meltdown if they can't cut a perfect circle. Not like experiencing frustration is all that bad, yet, when you have 35 minutes, 24 kindergarteners you have to plan strategically. Each table gets a tray of pre-cut shapes. Diamonds, squares, circles, long rectangles, triangles of all types, semi-circles....
Seeing as art tables are large for little bodies, I empty the tray onto the center and make sure all students have access to the materials. Yes, each child has a scissor and two kids each share a glue cup.
By placing a glue cup, diagonally, one on each side all 4 kids get access.
