I aim to inspire kids to learn more about themselves and the world around them through creativity.
I'm passionate about art.
I believe in the power of art as education - it helps kids to develop self-esteem, learn to problem solve, play, imagine, relax, work as a team and express how they feel.
I create year-round resources, suitable for all abilities, holding all of the above in mind.
I aim to inspire kids to learn more about themselves and the world around them through creativity.
I'm passionate about art.
I believe in the power of art as education - it helps kids to develop self-esteem, learn to problem solve, play, imagine, relax, work as a team and express how they feel.
I create year-round resources, suitable for all abilities, holding all of the above in mind.
Create ‘A Ball About Me’, a fun, first week back to school creative activity.
Students can explore what they like and get to learn more about each other.
This is a helpful insight for the new teacher too.
This football template encourages children to consider the instructions (listed below) and to illustrate their answers in a personal, imaginative way using doodles, mark making, graffiti style lettering and imagery.
The colour example uses a black ball point pen and felt tips to create a modern, illustrative style to appeal to year 3’s and above.
Invite students to consider the style of their favourite artist (eg Andy Warhol, Lichtenstein) or author (eg Liz Pichon who writes and illustrates the popular Tom Gates books)
Instructions on the ball template include:
Name
Age
Birthday
Self Portrait
Favourite song, food, book, sport and colour
Doodles: Colour this, take a line for a walk, draw circles, squares, triangles, lines.
The finished footballs will make a great group wall display and would also work well laminated and suspended from the ceiling.
Also great as personal journal or sketchbook covers for students.
This pack also includes ‘A Ball About Me’ garland for students to decorate, cut out and display.
With 2 letters per page, this will make a large welcoming banner for the new classroom or bulletin board.
All artwork is designed by me, and is vector based, so can be enlarged without pixelating.
Ideal for use as an icebreaker activity or as an art specific lesson.
Have fun exploring and celebrating, with these Queen’s Platinum Jubilee creative activities, fun facts, posters and diy decorations.
This resource is just what you need to get your classroom or family friendly event looking ready to celebrate!
Use this creative resource as a fun introduction to British history, culture, and the Royal Family.
The Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II takes place from 2nd to 5th June 2022, celebrating Her Majesty’s 70 years of service.
There will be many organized events and fun street parties celebrating the
Platinum Jubilee across the UK and around the world.
Contents:
A fun facts page about Queen Elizabeth II and The Crown Jewels
Platinum Jubilee posters and Union Flags to decorate and display
Royal Crown and Orb hand illustrated templates to decorate
Completed painted examples are included
A selection of garland designs to cut out and hang in your classroom
Decorative framed pages for drawing and writing creatively
Materials, and equipment needed:
Choose from, or combine marker pens, colored pencils, water color paints, oil pastels
Scissors, and pegs or string to display the garlands
Print onto heavyweight paper or card stock for best results
Enjoy the celebration!
These 'modern art' hidden Easter Egg and Rabbit worksheets are a challenging creative activity for kids. They can help young artists and designers explore graphic design, and the impact of different color palettes - hot, cold etc.
Use felt tips, crayons, pastels, watercolours, collage - depending on time available, age, level of ability.
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!
This ‘Robot About Me’ art and writing activity, is a delightful first week back to school ice breaker and a really creative way for teachers and students to learn more about each other.
Invite students to respond to prompts and questions in a personal and imaginative way, using doodles and words, to create a unique robot character.
The pack also contains robot themed classroom decor and activities for early finishers.
Contents:
• Robot templates to decorate and construct, 2 x challenge level options are included
a) Single page activity
b) Robot activity with fold out booklet for writing and image making
• Construction directions and photographs of finished examples for inspiration.
I suggest teachers make a finished fold out example to show to students
• Classroom decor - garlands, mini garlands and posters, in both colour and outline format
• Doodle pages and bookmarks to keep early finishers occupied
The finished robots make a fabulous display, on the bulletin board or pegged up on a line as a garland.
Photographs of completed and partially completed examples are included in the packet, using a black ball point pen and colored markers to create a modern, illustrative style to appeal to slightly older children, grade 4+
The pack also contains activities for early finishers, including doodle pages and bookmarks to make.
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 free abstract soccer / football template offers a great opportunity for students to explore colour, shape and design.
Experiment filing the sections with pens, paints, collage, texture, pattern - extend the challenge according to age and ability.
Assess if the ball is visible / hard to see / recedes / emerges from the page in relation to the colours chosen
Peg up as a garland to decorate the classroom if a large number of participants are available
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
Celebrate Valentine’s Day in a fun, creative and colourful way with this easy to use Pop Art inspired art and card making activity pack.
Teachers and students can enjoy sharing cards, and decorating the classroom with colourful artwork and garlands.
Contents:
1. Coloured garland and poster
2. Garland to colour and make
3. Coloured card ready to send
4. Card to colour and send
5. Mini cards from teacher to student with 4 message options
6. Mini cards from student to student to make and share
7. Art activity exploring colour, shape and pattern, inspired by Pop Art
8. Photographs of finished examples
9. Pop Art facts page
Materials needed:
1. good quality paper for printing the templates and cards
2. marker pens / coloured pencils
3. scissors
4. pegs and string for garland
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.
Are you looking for a creative, fun Mother's Day art and craft activity for kids to make and take home to mum to treasure?
This imaginative 'keepsake box' can be personalised by each student on the outside and filled with special surprises inside.
This art and craft activity is suitable for 7-12 year olds - it involves design, colour, pattern, shape, careful cutting, construction, doodles, writing, wordsearch, card making and weaving with yarn.
The resource pack contains the following:
Instructions for use
Photographs of the finished box and it's contents
Box templates - with shapes and a blank for students to create their own
Coloured example of the finished box
Templates for mini cards and envelopes to go inside
Template for fold out mini message to go inside
Hearts and starts template with gift tags for yarn wrapping activity
Daisy greetings card template
Daisy doodle page
Tulip greetings card template
Tulip doodle page
Mother's Day Word search activity - make your own special message
This activity is designed to be printed on A4 and US letter suze paper
Gift messages and word search activities contain both UK/Australia and US spellings
Enjoy Mother's Day!
This ‘Pop Art Box About Me’ art and getting to know you resource, is a fun, first week back to school ice breaker for both girls and boys.
It is a really creative way for teachers and students to learn more about each other.
Invite students to create a unique ‘All About Me Box’, following the template prompts using Pop Art style doodles and words.
Box prompts include:
Age, name, grade, self portrait, favorite colors, favorite fruit, my top goal, I love…
Students can then fill their boxes with a selection of question cards and work in pairs or small groups to explore their learning goals, aspirations, likes and dislikes.
36 question cards are included, along with blanks for students to have some fun and invent their own questions and games, for example, ‘Would you rather…’
Another task is to make a ‘card to myself’ with a message or goal, or a kind note for a friend.
For example, students can give these to their teacher to open at the end of the year.
The coloured, finished example included features a girl’s face.
However the actual face template has a ‘generic bald head’ so both boys and girls can create a self portrait from this outline.
Classroom Decor includes Pop Art inspired garlands and posters to colour and display.
There are doodle pages to keep early finishers occupied.
UK/Aus/Can spelling options of favourite and colour are included in the templates.
Boxes measure 2.6 x 2.6 x 2.6 inches / 6.6 x 6.6 x 6.6cm when finished.
The entire box template is designed to fit one sheet of US Letter or A4 sized paper.
A larger box template is also included if you have access to an 11x14 or A3 printer.
The finished boxes make a fabulous display, on the bulletin board, pegged up on a line as a garland or suspended from the ceiling with clear thread.
Photographs of completed examples are included in the pack.
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.
Get into the spirit of the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, with this 'hidden' modern art, abstract style Olympic Torch creative activity.
Encourage students to explore colour - perhaps the 5 olympic rings colours?
Discuss how to make the torch and flame 'stand out' or 'recede' from the background.
Experiment with pens, paints, pastels, felt tips - if you have more time, introduce doodles, patterns or collage within the shapes.
The free download includes both the outline template and digitally coloured example.
Use the finished torches for decorative bunting, journal covers or a classroom wall display.
Use this creative activity to discuss the history of the Olympic torch relay and it's journey for this year's Rio Olympic Games.
You might also like to view my bumper 30 page creative Olympics resource pack -
Bumper 30 page Summer 2016 Rio Olympic Games Creative Art Activities Pack and Classroom Decor