Click the picture on the left to download the pdf sheet. Cut out and make cone and pyramid shapes, so you have a shape to draw, and to understand how the shapes are constructed.

A cone is like a cylinder but instead of having a circle at both ends, one end is squashed or squeezed into a single point.

To draw a cone, first draw a circle, then draw a point above the circle and draw two lines from the point to connect with the edges of the circle. Again shading comes in useful here to make the shape look 3D.

The same goes for pyramids. Draw squares and triangles with a point above them. Connect the point to the corners corners to create a drawing of a pyramid. Drawing flatter triangles and parallelograms will give you a much more 3D representational effect.

Task: Download and make the cone and pyramid shapes to understand how the shapes are constructed, then draw lots of cone and pyramid shapes. Look around you through the day. See where you can find cone and pyramid shapes.

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