Scrapbooking Shapes

My students just love using new apps and displaying their learning.  It always amazes me how just after a short demonstration on an app they can pick it up and go to town.  This week we have been reviewing 2-D shapes.  I was playing around with a few different apps and found one to scrapbook.  I loved the ease, creativity, and options it allowed so I want to find some way to have my students use it.  I thought that using it to document shapes in the world around them would be great, at it seems so did they.


To do this we used the app called ScrapPad.  It allows you to make scrap book pages right on the iPad with built in backgrounds and text features.  The camera is also built in so doesn't require switching between apps (always important when working with kindergarten students.).

The students choose a background and then decided what shape they were going to look for.  Then they just used the built in camera to take pictures of those shapes in our classroom.  Finally they used the text feature to label their shape collage.