Zentangle Insects & Bugs Art Activity | Mindful Doodle Colouring Pages + Pattern Sheets
Unlock your students’ creativity and focus with this Zentangle Insect & Bug Art Pack! This resource includes 8 beautifully designed bug and insect outlines—from butterflies and dragonflies to ants, beetles, and scorpions—ready to be filled in with Zentangle patterns.
Also included are 4 reference sheets of Zentangle pattern ideas to guide or inspire students as they doodle.
Perfect for:
Key stage 3 or 4
Sub/ COVER Lesson plans or early finisher activities
Mindfulness and SEL-based lessons
Spring or insect-themed units
What’s Included:
8 Zentangle bug templates (butterfly, bee, beetle, ant, fly, scorpion, dragonfly, spider, geometric beetle)
4 Zentangle pattern idea/reference pages
High-quality black and white printable pages (ready to print and go)
Encourage calm, concentration, and artistic expression in your classroom with this engaging Zentangle resource!
PDF BOOKLET
A cute little activity to support colour knowledge and pattern matching
Contains -
x9 strips with various arrangments of the colour monsters
x1 table sign
dots to stick on pegs for colour matching
colour monster images to sue for pattern matching
The aims of this KS3 Printmaking Pattern Project are for students to understand how to design patterns, understand the poly-printing process and learn how to take inspiration from a street artist. It introduces students to a wide range of materials incuding printing equipment and Indian inks.
Students create two drawn designs (one in colour) and develop them into poly printing designs. They create their own backgrounds to print onto and create a final outcome inspired by an artist.
I designed this project with a few aims in mind:
The project had to be engaging for different sub-groups including disadvantaged boys
It allowed students to analyse and discuss graffiti and street art
Students could respond to the artist in their own way
It gave students autonomy over their final outcomes
Students learned a printmaking process
Students could learn from their mistakes and refine their work
The project included colour theory
The presentation has over 40 slides, including:
an artist for students to research
steps for creating a rotational pattern design
a video for students to watch when creating their polyboard design
entry tasks / starters / do now / exit task activities for each part of the project
examples of student’s work throughout
notes on some slides to clearly explain what to do
slides that can be printed for lesson resources
set of 54 colour pattern strips, these can be used with pegs, counters, anything with the matching colours! great for colour recognition and pattern work. There are also incomplete patterns for children to carry on and blank strips for children to make their own patterns. These can be laminated and used as a classroom resource or photocopied and used as a worksheet or homework.
A quick and easy activity set up to help support pattern matching and colour identification.
I use these with multilink cubes.
Contains -
x1 table sign
x4 A4’s each with 3 pattern strips
Each pattern strip is a simple repeating pattern of 2 colours. Ideal activity for start of year
5 mindful colouring pages to create a moment of calm in the classroom. Focus your student’s attention and enjoy the beauty and simplicity of repetitive patterns. Using colours that reflect inner mood, complete stunning images. Count shapes, find patterns, spot types of angles and encourage use of geometrical terms.
12 colour charts (3 skin tone charts) made using the Sassoon primary std font.
There are three charts to an A4 page and each chart has 5 shades.
I was struggling to find these in B&Q or homebase so I made my own, hope they are useful!
Bring the beloved story Lost and Found to life with this beautifully created colouring pack!
Perfect for EYFS, KS1, or anyone exploring the work of Oliver Jeffers, this resource includes a collection of high quality, child friendly colouring sheets inspired by key scenes in the book. Each page has been carefully redrawn in a simplified outline style, making it ideal for young learners to enjoy independently or as part of a literacy, storytelling, or fine motor activity.
These colouring sheets can be used for:
Story retelling and sequencing
Literacy and guided reading sessions
Fine motor skill practice
Calm time, morning work, or early finisher activities
A creative extension to an Oliver Jeffers author study
Engaging, easy to print, and perfect for classroom or home learning, this pack supports creativity while deepening children’s connection to this heartwarming tale.
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Here are 5 colour patterns for children to copy.
Each page shows a colour pattern and a black and white template to fill in.
Children can also make their own design colour patterns.
A resource linked to Spring, Summer, Animals or Insects.
Sheet 1 shows 6 outline butterflies for children to colour in using their own ideas of colour and pattern. They could make them all the same, all different, or make them so that they match the colour butterflies in sheet 2.
Sheet 3 shows the 6 colour butterflies in sheet 2 with the colour circles left clear. Children can add their own colours or the matching colours for sheet 2.
Talk about colour, pattern, shape and symmetry with the children.
Duplicate the sheets, cut out and laminate for matching games.
Enlarge the sheets for use with a range of media such as paint and collage or to add to displays.
This resource is a collection of 18 colour flashcards that can be cut out and laminated if desired. It can be used with practical resources such as blocks, bricks, gummed squares of paper.
It includes:
Flashcards (18): Brightly coloured images of ‘Stickle’ blocks / bricks.
Practical Activity Sheets (2): Children use blocks, bricks, or square gummed paper to recreate the patterns shown on the sheets. They can also incorporate number by counting colours and how many blocks in each tower.
Colouring Sheets (2): White brick templates where children can colour in the bricks to match the colour patterns shown.
Brick Copying Pages (2): Colourful brick patterns for children to replicate by placing bricks or blocks directly on the template and / or colour in the template.
This resource supports learning about colour, pattern, and shape.
It’s ideal for Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) and Key Stage 1 (KS1), helping develop fine motor skills, spatial awareness, and pattern recognition through hands-on and creative activities.
This train-themed resource includes a variety of activities to support matching, colouring, and pattern for KS1 and EYFS learners.
Page 1: A train engine with 11 colourful carriages, each a different colour pattern. (You could duplicate, cut out and laminate the small cards for matching games).
Page 2: 12 different colour patterned engine cards. Duplicate, cut and match or children can use to build a train with their choice of colour carriages.
Page 3: Black-and-white version of the engine and carriages for children to colour freely or copy colours from previous pages.
You could task the children with making each carriage different using a set number of crayons. Children could share their creations at the end of the session to see if anyone else has an engine or carriage the same as them!
Page 4: Black-and-white version of the engines sheet for children to colour in. Page 5: A train scene colouring page, using an engine and two carriages.
Learning Links: Supports colour recognition, pattern, matching skills, and fine motor control, while engaging young learners in a fun train theme! Links also with Transport and Toys topics.
3 different butterfly colour patterns for children to copy.
They could use a range of media such as felt pens, paint, collage or crayons.
Extend by asking children to make a colour butterfly pattern for their friends to copy.
Links to symmetry.
A mandala pattern is a design made up of repeating shapes, lines, and patterns arranged symmetrically around a central point. Mandalas are often found in art, nature, and different cultural traditions, helping to develop an appreciation for balance and harmony in design.
This resource consists of six worksheets designed for KS1, linking art and symmetry through mandala patterns.
Each worksheet starts with a completed mandala design and then gradually removes parts of the pattern in five steps. Children will carefully observe and reconstruct the missing sections, completing the design while reinforcing their understanding of symmetry.
This activity supports:
Recognizing and applying symmetry in designs
Fine motor skill development through precise drawing
Mathematical thinking in pattern-making
Creativity and focus in an engaging, structured task
Perfect for use in maths, art, or cross-curricular lessons, these worksheets encourage children to explore patterns, symmetry, and artistic expression.
This Colourful Semantics resource supports pupils in building clear, structured sentences using the familiar story Dear Zoo.
Using the colour-coded approach (Who? Doing? What? Where? Describing), pupils can construct and expand sentences based on the repeating pattern in the story.
Includes:
Colour-coded sentence building grids
Structured sentence frames
“Too…” adjective expansion (e.g. too big, too jumpy)
Opportunities to model subject–verb–object structure
Ideal for:
EYFS and KS1
Speech and language groups
SEND and EAL learners
Pupils working below age-related expectations
Designed to support sentence structure, vocabulary development and confidence in spoken and written language.
UPDATED to the correct format.
A simple mark making dance based on the Colour monster.
Using different styles of music and different mark making patterns to match the emotions of the story.
Each slide has it’s own colour, mark making patterns a style of music to move the pens to.
This is a great resource to put in pupil's individual TEACCH boxes or for independent tasks to consolidate matching, sequencing and following a pattern.
The flashcards are clear and uncluttered for maximum pupil focus.
They can be used with threading cubes to also promote and encourage fine motor skills.