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!
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This is a fun and engaging way to practice multiplying indices (or exponents). This resource is a colour by numbers type activity which shading the square containing the answer the same pattern as suggested by the question.
This comes with 3 different pattern worksheets - simplifying integer ratios, simplifying integer ratios and metric unit ratios and finally simplifying integer and metric unit ratios and finding missing values in equivalent ratios.
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.
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
This full pattern painting scheme of work is inspired by artist William Morris. There are over 70 slides on the presentation, and it goes through many aspects of creating a repeated reflection design using tracing paper.
The project introduces students to the work of William Morris, different types of pattern repeats and colour theory. It builds on basic colour theory and introduces secondary, tertiary, monochromatic, analogous and complementary colour schemes. The presentation includes a slide explaining the project aims and each lesson has clear tasks set.
The projects is designed to build students’ skills in painting each lesson, with all lessons having starter / entry tasks and plenaries included. There are lots of examples of high quality student work at each stage of the project. There are also challenges included and printable resources (slides with white backgrounds so they are easy to print and copy) to use in the lessons.
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
Compare bear repeating patterns. I have created a variety of different repeating pattern cards that can be printed, laminated and used to assist children with their own repeated patterns using ‘compare bears’. There are also blank cards so children can make their own repeating patterns. Compare bear photos were taken against a white background. The white background has been removed on the resources. Colours include Red, Blue, Yellow, Green. ** Update ** I have now included Purple and Orange compare bears for patterns. The 3rd page on the preview is aligned properly!
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
A selection of, bug themed resources, based on the book, Pattern Bugs.
Included in this pack is-
Creating a pattern
Recreate a pattern x2
Cut and stick
Identify next bug
Create a repeating pattern
Colour in bugs
Describe a bug x4
Complete the repeating pattern
Match up patterns
12 matching/pairing card game
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Great for Primary or KS3 Students.
This downloadable pack includes 3 unique worksheets each including a literacy based task. All are designed to spark children’s imaginations and artistic talents.
Plus, they are super easy to use, no prep, just print out and go!
No fancy art supplies needed – just crayons, pencils, or markers will do.
Simple instructions suitable for a range of abilities
Each work sheet is designed to be completed over a 60-50 minute lesson and offers a different artistic challenge.
These worksheets are really useful to have to hand and can be used for
cover lessons
wet break activities
after-school/ lunchtime club activities
homeschooling tasks
extention work for early finishers
as part of starter tasks/retrieval tasks
Quick and Easy Homework tasks
Skill building
Happy Teaching :-)
This is a set of 9 worksheets and materials. I used some or all of these with Year 2 and LKS2 classes, to help pupils gain an understanding of symmetry in shapes and extending to coloured patterns in different arrangements. Depending on the pupil’s understanding, I encouraged them to work individually, with a partner or in a guided group to complete these. I also provided mirrors for these activities but tried to encourage pupils to use these as a form of checking answers as these could sometimes cause confusion rather than aid answering.
The 9 sets of sheets are;
Lines of Symmetry shapes – these two sheets encourage pupils to identify all the lines of symmetry in given shapes.
Lines of Symmetry shapes ANSWERS – these two sheets are the answers to the above to aid with marking.
Symmetry letters low – this sheet allows pupils to organise given letters and symbols depending on whether or not they have lines of symmetry.
Symmetry letters top – this sheet is as above but for more able pupils requiring them to identify if the letters and symbols have one, more than one or no line of symmetry.
Symmetry letters cards – this is a master set of the cards required for sheets 3 and 4 above.
Symmetrical Patterns bl & wh – this sheet has an arrangement of 8 patterns represented on grids which are to be completed with regard to the vertical mirror line shown.
Symmetrical Patterns colour – this sheet is set out as the black and white version above but pupils are required to consider the placement of different colours. This could be used either as an extension activity or as a form of differentiation given only to more able pupils.
Symmetrical Patterns blank – this sheet is set out as the black and white and coloured versions above but are blank grids. This allows pupils to create their own patterns for symmetrical completion either by themselves or for swapping with a partner.
Symmetrical colour patterns – these three sheets follow a similar principle to that used in sheets 6, 7 and 8 however it extends to thinking about horizontal mirror lines and culminating in a grid that can be used to create symmetrical patterns across 4 quadrants.
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!
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.
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.
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.