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Joyful lessons and resources to develop digital drawing abilities, increase technology skills, and cultivate a growth mindset from @tonyvincent.bsky.social
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The picture in the Turkey Shapegram is drawn using 17 shapes and 7 lines. (Unlike most Shapegrams, the turkey picture is outlined in black.) #EduSky #EdTech

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November 25, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Shapegrams members: Want something your students will genuinely focus on before Thanksgiving break? Try these fall Shapegrams!

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Fun Fall Activities for Students: Create Thanksgiving Digital Art in Google Slides
Get students thinking before they draw by having them predict the shapes in a Shapegram. They can mark their guesses on a printable PDF Shapes Sheet.
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November 25, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Would you rather discuss these "Would You Rather Thanksgiving" slides with your students or have a dull class? 😉

Thanks for making them, Peggy Reimers!

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Screenshot showing thumbnails of 19 slides
November 25, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Have fun this week with Shapegrams!

🥧 Slice of Pie: shapegrams.com/pie
🦃 Turkey Lesson: shapegrams.com/turkey
🌽 Candy Corn Gradient: shapegrams.com/candycorn
🍁 Leaf: shapegrams.com/leaf
Shapegrams logo is centered on a colorful graphic divided into four quadrants, each showing a fall-themed image: a slice of pumpkin pie, a cartoon turkey, the words "Candy Corn Gradient," and a red maple leaf.
November 24, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Carve and dress a turkey!

Challenge students to carve graham crackers into the shape of a turkey—using only their teeth! They insert a photo of their cracker into Google Slides and add shapes to dress or disguise the turkey. #EduSky #EdTech
A graphic titled "Carve and dress a turkey!" illustrates a three-step creative activity. The first step shows a child carving a turkey silhouette from a graham cracker with their teeth, with the instruction: "Carve a turkey silhouette from a graham cracker with your teeth." The second step shows the resulting carved cracker and the instruction to "Insert a photo of the carved cracker into Google Slides." The final step shows the cracker digitally decorated with cartoon eyes and a striped scarf, advising to "Add shapes to dress or disguise the turkey." The graphic is branded with the Shapegrams logo.
November 23, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Funny Friday! Apologies in advance for the corny puns. 🙃
A cartoon titled "CORNGRATULATIONS!" shows a man on a stage congratulating a large, living candy corn character. The man says, "You did an a-maize-ing job playing the French corn in the corn-cert!" The candy corn character, holding a broken "French corn" (French horn) and surrounded by falling "corn-fetti," replies, "Thank for the corn-pliment and all this corn-fetti."
November 21, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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The new Candy Corn Gradient Shapegram comes with instructions for creating a hard stop gradient, which is made by placing gradient stops right on top of each other so the colors do not blend. ⬜️🟧🟨 #EduSky #EdTech

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Screenshot of the "Candy Corn Gradient" one-pager with 9 steps to make a hard stop gradient.
November 21, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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Once students make the gradient in the Candy Corn Shapegram, they can use it to fill other shapes and word art in Google Slides. One gradient, endless aMAIZEing creations!

🤍🧡💛 #EduSky #EdTech #GoogleEdu

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Candy Corn gradient used in word art and various shapes
November 21, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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Knock, knock!
Who's there?
Norma Lee.
Norma Lee who?
Norma Lee I don't eat this much pie!

Draw a lattice pie crust in this Shapegram: shapegrams.com/lattice
Lattice Pie Crust
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November 20, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Candy corn divides the world. So does 6–7. Perfect combo, right? Students can fill "6–7" word art in Google Slides with a candy corn gradient. shapegrams.com/candycorn
#EduSky #EdTech #Teaching
6-8 filled with white, orange, and yellow stripes
November 19, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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Drawing this turkey involves making a straight line, using the arc shape, and layering shapes.

Level = Progressing Purple
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Get the lesson: shapegrams.com/turkey
Turkey
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November 18, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Drawing this turkey involves making a straight line, using the arc shape, and layering shapes.

Level = Progressing Purple
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Get the lesson: shapegrams.com/turkey
Turkey
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November 18, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Fall is a g-LEAF-ul time of year. How about celebrating with Shapegrams? Check out our Lessons and Zippers! shapegrams.com
Fall is a g-LEAF-ul time of year. How about celebrating with Shapegrams? Check out our Lessons and Zippers! shapegrams.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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The November Update is a sweet treat!

✅ Hard stop gradient
✅ Reusing gradients
✅ Thanksgiving activities
✅ Corny puns
❌ Waxy aftertaste
New Shapegram → Candy Corn Gradient
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November 16, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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The newest Shapegram helps learners create a custom candy corn gradient. Instead of blending colors together, this gradient changes colors suddenly to make clean stripes. #EdTech #EduSky

Level = Progressing Purple
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Candy Corn Gradient
November 15, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Funny Friday! #EduSky

Q: What handheld technology is also a sweet dessert?

A: An Apple Pie-Phone! 🍎🥧📱

P.S. Learn to draw a pie with an lattice crust: shapegrams.com/lattice
A cartoon man stands next to a bicycle that has two large pies for wheels. He says, "Check out my sweet ride! My pie-cycle is a wheel-y delicious invention!"
November 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Using the arrow keys on your keyboard is KEY to perfect positioning in Google Slides.

#EduSky #EdTech #GaETC25 #GoogleEdu
Here is the alt text for the image: An poster from Shapegrams titled "Nudge with Arrow Keys." The text provides two keyboard tips. First: "With an object selected, use the arrow keys on your keyboard to nudge it up, down, left or right," illustrated by icons of the four arrow keys. Second, inside a blue box: "To make larger moves, hold down Shift and press an arrow key," illustrated by icons of the Shift key and the arrow keys.
November 4, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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BONE up on your digital drawing skills with Shapegrams! They work great as whole class, station rotation, extra time, and club activities. #EduSky #Teaching #GoogleSlides

Many of them are free!
🏠😜🍦🦁🧙♀️⚓️🍞🎈🍳🍿🚦🍌

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Shapegrams logo made from bones
November 1, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Tony is tech support for Halloween! 👨💻

Check out the shapes and word art used to draw this comic in #GoogleSlides. 👀 #

EduSky #EdTech #DigitalArt
Outlined shapes used to make the comic Comic of Tony looking at a computer screen with a blurry ghost. He says, “It looks like you’re glitching. Have you tried re-BOO-ting?”
October 31, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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A WITCH is best at WHICH subject? Spelling, of course!

This pair of homophone Zippers invites learners to recreate illustrations, and in the process, it might help with their spelling (but that might be WITCHful thinking). #EduSky #Education

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Witch icon Icon illustrating "which"
October 30, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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These pictures are too cute to spook! #EduSky #EdTech #GoogleEdu

Learn how to draw a back cat, ghost, jack-o'-lantern, and bats in the Spooky Things Lesson: shapegrams.com/spooky
October 29, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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How about some Frightening Classroom Fun?!? Give students a copy of a spooky Shapegram, spin a Spooky Story, or try one of the digital activities from our blog.

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October: Spooky, Fall & Halloween Digital Activities
October really is a GOURD month for drawing with shapes. We've got four Shapegrams that are faBOOlous any time of year, especially in October.
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October 29, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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It's PUNS of a fun to turn on the captions while viewing a Shapegrams video.

#EdTech #Teaching #GoogleSlides #EduSky
A screenshot from a Shapegrams YouTube video. A man wearing a "SHAPEGRAMS" t-shirt stands on the left, looking at a cartoon skeleton on the right. The skeleton holds a smartphone with a skull on the case and poses with one hand on its hip. Subtitles at the bottom read, "Hey, did you get a new SKELphone?"
October 29, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Make a copy of Tony and Ellie's "Spin a Spooky Story" template. It has a link to a random prompt generator, blanks to enter the prompt, space to write, and a place to draw. #EduSky
Spin a Spooky Story
Generate intriguing writing and drawing prompts with Character, Setting, and Plot spinners.
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October 28, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Tony makes it look easy to draw and pose a skeleton. The truth is that he wasn't BONE with this talent. It takes skeleTONS of practice TIBIA a whiz at anything, especially drawing.

#MondayMotivation #GrowthMindset #EduSky
A cartoon of a skeleton holding a sign that says, "It takes skeleTONS of practice TIBIA whiz"
October 27, 2025 at 2:45 PM