I design imaginative, printable art and writing activities for 7-13-year-olds. I help classroom teachers and homeschoolers to deliver high-quality art projects with minimal stress and prep! I firmly believe that kids can learn more about themselves and the world around them through creativity
I design imaginative, printable art and writing activities for 7-13-year-olds. I help classroom teachers and homeschoolers to deliver high-quality art projects with minimal stress and prep! I firmly believe that kids can learn more about themselves and the world around them through creativity
Celebrate St. Patrick's Day and engage children creatively with this fun, modern fold out Instagram style, 'tech' mobile phone/tablet art activity.
This activity invites students to cut out and make their own fold out booklet style art-phone, and then to complete the image making on the front cover and the wordsearch and 'release your inner leprechaun' selfie drawing activity on the inside pages.
The finished 'artphone' measures 5 x 10 inches / 13 x 25.5cm.
It can be printed on US letter or A4 paper and is spellings are suitable for US, UK and Australia
The front cover:
What is your leprechaun name?
Create thumbnail doodles or drawings for the 7 sections:
Shamrock, Irish flag, pot of gold, rainbow, leprechaun hat and shoes, lucky horse shoe
The 2 fold out inner pages:
1. word search activity - find the18 words relating to St. Patrick's Day
2. Release your inner leprechaun!
Have fun creating a leprechaun selfie with the template provided
Considerations, how to use this activity:
Consider the space around the images you draw
How do the 7 images look collectively?
Is there an emerging theme or style or colour?
What colours do we associate with words?
eg shamrock: green
Work imaginatively!
The included example uses a black ball point pen and felt tips
The completed art-phones slip comfortably into a back pocket.
They will work well pegged up as a garland or can decorate a wall, door or bulletin board.
Celebrate Earth Day and bring creativity and colour to your classroom with this globe doodle art and poster resource.
The globe art activity has been designed in sections so that students can experiment with using shades of greens for landmass and shades of blue for the ocean and then doodle over the finished artwork with words and symbols to create imaginative, original and modern artworks.
The pack contains:
1. A digitally coloured poster to print out for the classroom
2. A poster template for students to colour and decorate their own
3. A globe template with painted examples for reference.
4. A fact sheet with ten facts about Earth Day
Happy Earth Day!
Doodling and colouring is a great activity for kids of all ages (and grown ups too!)
It encourages time away from screens and technology, relaxes us, and stimulates our imagination.
This summer theme activity pack contains 26 outlines, all designed by me for kids to decorate with colour, patterns and doodles, using pens, pencils, crayons, paint or collage.
A handy download pack for the classroom, home schoolers, summer play dates or a family on hoilday.
The pack contains the following templates, in vector format, so they can be enlarged without pixelating.
1. beach hut
2. ‘summer is here’ postcard
3. beach towels
4. 4 pineapples
5. 12 orange/lemon/lime slices
6. 3 watermelon slices
7. large watermelon slice
8. 12 popsicles/lollipops
9. large pineapple
10. large popsicle/lollipop
11. abstract sunshine squares
12. 12 starfish
13. 6 apples
14. 3 dolphins
15. flip flops
16. mini bunting
17. blank postcard
18. abstract waves 1
19. abstract waves 2
20. 6 flip flops
21. 2 wetsuits
22. 3 swimsuits
23. 6 shorts
24. 6 t shirts
25. 5 surfboards
26. 6 volleyballs
These vintage fairground-inspired A to Z alphabet uppercase letters and posters have been designed and individually created by hand on Adobe Illustrator and make a great visual impact on classrooms for all age groups.
Ideal decoration for the first week back to school.
These letters can be individually cut out and coloured/decorated or used as they are.
Or for instant zing, print onto coloured paper of your choice - or a variety of colours for a carnival garland feel.
In the 40 page pack, you will receive the following jpeg files:
1. A-Z large letters, one letter per page, measuring 19cm/7.5 inches high, ideal for garlands and larger displays
2. A-Z small letters, 4 per page, measuring 10cm/4 inches high,
ideal for bulletin boards, titles and name making activities
3. Five bulletin board posters, US letter size, with the words:
Our Bulletin Board
Welcome Back
All About Me
Best Class Ever
Reach For The Stars
This pack contains 90 questions and prompts for End of Year, Back to School and All about Me group discussion & reflection activities in the classroom.
The cards have been designed using a modern mobile phone-style template to appeal to this age group and give the activity a sense of fun and curiosity.
Custom build your own classroom question packs by selecting the question cards relevant to your activity and students (suggested use for years 3-6).
Some questions are specific to End of Year reflection, some for Back to School and All About Me Icebreakers etc whilst many are more general and can be used all year round.
Carefully researched questions have been chosen to enable students to promote discussion around:
- themselves, their peers, their families
- their likes and dislikes, challenges and successes
- preferred learning styles, areas where support is needed
- plans for summer, and summer memories reflection
- fun and imagination, superheroes, dream destinations, careers etc
- open ended prompts, such as, I aim to, I imagine that, I worry that, I hope…
- how they feel about the start and end of the year
- achievements, goal setting
- books, movies
- bullying, healthy eating ,sport
- helping others, getting support
- blank template cards for teachers and students to create their own questions
This Pack Contains:
1. 36 ‘phone template’ cards containing 90 questions and prompts
2. Two additional cards with UK/Australian spelling for ‘favourite’, and ‘colour’
3. Speech bubbles to decorate your bulletin board - all about me, let’s chat etc
4. photographs showing the finished cut out cards
Materials needed:
1. heavyweight paper to print the cards
2. scissors
3. laminator if required, for longer use!
Suggestions for use:
Invite students to work in pairs or small groups of 4-6 and to take it in turns to ask the questions and answer them. After the exercise it can be useful to have a larger group discussion around what they learnt, what they found easy, or challenging and perhaps questions that they felt were missing?
I hope you enjoy the activity!
This 41 page detailed football themed creative art activity pack has been designed to enthuse and engage children in a fun, experimental way.
Templates and activity sheets have been created to encourage the exploration of colour, shape, abstract pattern, graphic and sportswear design.
All designs are original and have been hand drawn and scanned or digitised by me to create unique activities.
The 41 page pack also includes football inspired bunting and flags for the classroom or homeschool environment.
There are also templates for medals, rosettes and trophies which are useful for end of term celebrations, awards and sports day activities.
Ideal also for football themed kids parties or as handy time fillers on vacation or whilst travelling this summer.
The pack includes the following templates with several colour examples for easy use in the classroom:
‘All about me’ football activity sheet
Bunting, flags, medals, rosettes, trophy templatesto colour and make
Finger puppets and soccer pitch templates for fun competition and play
Design templates, to create football team strips, tops, shorts, socks, caps, football boots
A selection of imaginative, creative doodle sheets and challenging coloring pages - includes footballs, football nets and more
This 27 page Easter creative colouring pack has been designed by the Imagination Box. The download contains
1) a 14 page Happy Easter bunting pack for the classroom to decorate and make - each letter inside an egg is A4/US letter size to make approx 10 feet of bunting.
2) 10 Easter card templates for children to colour, including chicks, eggs, rabbits. The designs are modern and imaginative, and created to encourage exploration of colour, pattern and abstract shape. Card designs are placed on half the page and ready to fold.
Suitable for children age 3+ using a wide variety of materials such as water colour, pastels, collage, depending on age and ability.
Celebrate Chinese New Year 2018, The Year of The Dog, with colour, imagination and fun!
This detailed creative Chinese New Year Art activity pack has been designed to enthuse and engage children in a fun, experimental way. The templates and activities aim to encourage the exploration of colour, shape, abstract pattern and graphic design whilst also providing Chinese New Year themed decor for the classroom or home.
Use this range of creative activities throughout the festival period, for full art lessons, early finishers, fun stuff or creative homework.
All ready to print and go' templates are formatted to print on US/A4 paper and only a simple range of art materials are needed - pencils, felt tips, oil pastels, glue, paints, string for garlands
This 45 page pack includes:
1. Garlands to cut out and hang:
Happy Chinese New Year 2018
Lantern bunting (includes colour your own and ready to hang)
2. Year of the Dog, a colouring and card making activity
3. Rooster activities, with templates and examples:
A feathered/oil pastel rooster
A 'hidden' geometric rooster
A folk art inspired doodle rooster
3. Make a swirling snake mobile, with template and photographed example
4. Beautiful blossom projects:
Make blossom bookmarks
Oil pastel large blossom group art
Blossom doodle page
Finger print blossom branch activity - which can be made into a Chinese lantern
5. Design a Chinese Bowl and chopsticks activity, describe the foods inside
6. Chinese Boys and Girls traditional costumes
Have fun designing patterns for these outfits - what would you wear?
7. Doodle dragon template and example
8. Chinese fan design
9. Lanterns
4 templates and pattern sheets to explore
I hope you enjoy this activity pack! I've certainly enjoyed creating it - all images are original and have been hand drawn or computer generated by me.
Sample my art projects here with my Free Year of the Dog activity available in this shop.
Get creative with this imaginative Winter Sport snowboard-inspired art and design activity pack.
This 52 page snow-packed resource pack aims to enthuse and engage children in a fun, experimental way. The ready to use templates and worksheets encourage the exploration of colour, shape, abstract pattern, graphic, sportswear and logo design, whilst also providing great Winter snow themed decor for the classroom or home schooler.
About the pack:
1. Art activity templates with finished coloured examples for inspiration.
My examples explore bold colours and geometric pattern with a fun retro 80's feel.
- ‘Snowboard Selfies’: draw what you imagine reflected in your goggles
- Design a snowboard themed Hoodie
- Design a hat, boots, mittens, baseball cap
- Design your own snowboards and use them as bookmarks
- Design your own winter torch, winners trophy, medals and rosettes
- Make snowflake bookmarks, bracelets and use bordered writing paper for creative writing
2. Decorate your classroom with a Winter Sports theme:
- Make a 'Winter Sports' Garland
- Blank garland template to make your own
- Snowflake borders for the bulletin board
- A selection of easy to print, bold graphic posters, including. ‘Let it Snow’ and ‘The Big Freeze’ to bring a chill to the classroom!
- A collection of 50 words related to the activity pack to inspire writing around this Winter Sport theme: boarding, nordic, thermal, freestyle etc
Materials to consider:
Felt tips/marker pens, coloured pencils, water colour paints, oil pastels
Print on good quality paper for bests results
Amazing Animal Doodles - this is the perfect eye-catching art and creative writing project for your Winter or Animal Themed Classroom.
This detailed resource is inspired by Folk Art around the world, using bold, simplistic geometric and floral shapes and bright colours highlighted against black and white.
These doodle animal templates have been designed to really engage your students creatively, spark their imaginations and inspire them to explore and experiment with colour, shape and pattern.
The resource pack contains:
1. outline templates: owl, stag, fox, bear, squirrel, rooster, hare
2. completed colored examples to use as inspiration and posters
3. pattern making template pages to experiment and design new patterns
4. a selection of background patterns to place cut out animal shapes onto
5. a creative writing activity page for each template - answer questions, write a short story and create a poem around your chosen animal
6. make your own ‘Folk Art Doodles’ banner to help display your students finished artworks
7. descriptive words and titles for the bulletin board
Key materials needed:
1. good quality heavyweight paper for printing
2. Choose from felt tips / markers, colored pencils, crayons for the art activity
The examples were created using Sharpies, black is important.
3. scissors, glue, string for banner
Create a positive, inspiring and respectful learning environment in your classroom with these imaginative, fun growth mindset posters, colouring pages, garlands and bookmarks.
Contents:
Growth Mindset Poster
Positive affirmations, including, ‘I love a challenge, I am determined to succeed’
Fixed Mindset Poster
Encourage an awareness that this doesn’t help us move forward
’I’m just not good enough, there’s no point in trying’
Questionnaire to encourage creative problem solving and personal growth:
‘3 ways I can’… be more imaginative, be an explorer, find inspiration…
Ten colorful posters to decorate your classroom:
Create Art, Dream Big, Get inspired, Be an Explorer, Be Awesome, Be Kind, Just Imagine, Try Again, Respect others, Just Be You
All ten posters are included as outline colouring page templates
Each poster is included as ‘4 to a page’ postcard size ‘affirmation cards’
A coloured garland to decorate the classroom
Garland outline colouring template for students to decorate
Photographed examples of 4 finished poster artworks to inspire your students.
Ten ‘motivational words’ for the bulletin board or to use as student bookmarks:
Solve, Design, Invent, Inspire, Create, Dream, Imagine, Enjoy, Explore, Smile!
Ideal classroom decor to wow your students during the first week back!
This detailed creative Autumn/Fall themed Art activity pack has been designed to enthuse and engage children in a fun, experimental way. The templates and worksheets aim to encourage the exploration of colour themes, geometric shape, abstract pattern, mark making, doodling and graphic design, whilst also providing Fall themed decorations for the classroom or home.
Shapes include acorn, oak leaf, maple leaf, apple, pumpkin
This 30 page pack contains the following:
1. Classroom decorations
a) Acorn Garland/bunting: both coloured and outline, ‘make your own’ options
b) Fall is Here’, ‘Autumn is Here’ decorative posters, coloured and outline options
c) Leaf Strips for bulletin board borders and making bookmarks
2. Creative writing / project page decorative Fall borders
a) coloured leaf border
b) outline leaf border
c) outline acorn border
3. Creative Abstract Art Activity Templates with coloured examples and photographs, using watercolour paints, oil pastels, felt tip pens to give you ideas of how to use them
a) hidden acorn in squares
b) hidden acorn in diamonds/triangles
c) hidden oak leaf in squares
d) hidden oak leaf with random lines
e) hidden maple leaf with random lines
f) hidden apple in squares
4. Simple shapes for general use
a) Maple Leaf
b) Pumpkin
c) Acorn
d) Apple
e) Oak Leaf
Thanks for considering my activity pack.
This detailed creative Halloween Art activity pack has been designed to enthuse and engage children in a fun, experimental, imaginative way. The templates and worksheets aim to encourage the exploration of colour, shape, abstract pattern, mark making and graphic design.
The examples and suggestions included, use watercolour paints, oil pastels and felt tips so projects are accessible and easy to set up. Crayons and coloured pencils can also be used.
This 38 page pdf bumper pack contains the following:
1. 5 Halloween card designs to decorate
2. Pumpkin border pages for creative writing activities
3. Spooky bookmarks to make
4. Experimental / abstract activity templates
a) ‘hidden’ ghoul
b) ‘hidden’ pumpkin
c) ‘hidden’ witch’s hat
d) ‘hidden’ bat
Photographs and examples are included, to show a range of ways to approach these activities.
5. Wonderful webs - 3 spiderweb activity sheets, ideal for fine motor skills
6. A selection of doodle sheets and simple templates for wall decoration, early finishers etc
Including pumpkins, bats, ghouls, witch’s hats
I hope you like the activity pack!
