Quadrilateral Art Exploration

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Colourful quadrilateral shapes arranged in a pattern

🎨 Your Polypad Design Challenge

Your Mission: Create a picture or pattern using ONLY quadrilaterals. You may use any combination of the shapes listed below. Be creative — your picture could be a house, a robot, a landscape, or a pattern!

Quadrilaterals you can use:

Square — 4 equal sides, 4 right angles

Rectangle — 2 pairs of equal sides, 4 right angles

Parallelogram — 2 pairs of parallel sides, opposite sides equal

Trapezium — exactly 1 pair of parallel sides

Rhombus — 4 equal sides, opposite sides parallel

✅ Tick the shapes you used in your design above, then draw your picture in the box below. Label at least 2 different shapes by writing their names with an arrow pointing to them.

💡 Tip: Use a ruler to draw neat, straight sides. Colour your design when you're done!

✏️ Shape Detectives: Label & Describe

1. Choose one quadrilateral from your design. Write its name and describe its properties.

Shape name: _________________________

Number of sides: ______ Number of angles: ______ Any right angles? ______

Describe this shape in your own words:

2. Choose a different quadrilateral from your design. Write its name and describe its properties.

Shape name: _________________________

Number of sides: ______ Number of angles: ______ Any right angles? ______

Describe this shape in your own words:

3. How are your two chosen shapes similar? How are they different? Write at least one similarity and one difference.

Similar:

Different:

4. All the shapes you used are called quadrilaterals. What do you think ALL quadrilaterals have in common?

🌟 Going Further

⭐ Extension Activity (Advanced Learners):

5. Can you find a quadrilateral in your design that could also be called by another name? For example, is any shape both a rhombus AND a square? Explain your thinking.

6. If you added ALL the angles inside one of your quadrilaterals together, what do you think the total would be? Make a prediction, then research or ask your teacher to check!

My prediction: _________ degrees

🤝 Support Strategies (for all learners):

Word bank available — ask your teacher for a quadrilateral word bank card

Shape reference card — use the classroom shape poster or your maths dictionary

Partner share — discuss your similarities and differences with a classmate before writing

Sentence starters — "This shape has ___ sides..." / "Both shapes have..." / "One difference is..."

🖊️ Reflection: Circle how you feel about quadrilaterals after this activity.

I need more practice 🌱

I'm getting there 🌤️

I've got it! ⭐

I can explain it to others 🚀