In my kindergarten/first grade classroom, once my students mastered tracing the basic metal inset shapes, they are welcome to use the metal insets and their imagination to create their own designs. I like having a set of idea cards available as a way to spark their imaginations if they are not sure about where to start. Having these cards available and changing them periodically have really kept my students interested in coming back to the metal insets throughout the school year.Now that we have