Inspired by the popular story by Mini Grey! Design your own outfit for Traction man and use the story board to plan your own or retell events of the story. Use the comic strip to plan your own action adventure. ´All about Traction Man´activity Video with ideas on how to create their own adventure Design your own outfit activity

Ideas and plans to create your own Art and Book week in primary with a natural theme of ‘Into the Woods’. Each class is allocated a text to base activities upon. A weekly plan that includes ideas and a suggested timetable, notes for teachers and risk assessment included. This resource is the art activities for the Book week, to find further details about the literacy plans see the new TES shop ClassGems literacy planning for this week.

As part of the class topic ‘IPC A to B’ in KS1 we studied places near and far. The children created information booklets about the animals that live in Australia and we tried to create their habitat environment influenced by the outback representations through aboriginal artwork. This became the backdrop for the display. Thanks to Sparklebox for the Animal printouts (booklet covers) this display can be easily recreated. To recreate the display… Boarder- Strips of card coloured using wax crayons looking at the aboriginal artist De Young https://deyoung.famsf.org/blog/tags/tags/aboriginal-art MAIN DISPLAY BACKGROUND Cut a large piece of brown, orange or yellow paper. Sketch out a pattern buy taking your pencil from one end of the paper to the other in a wave line. Fill in with lines and circles as above and painting using poster paint. For the title a really good website called instant display.com www.instantdisplay.com has aboriginal patterned display text, this one the children coloured.