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
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.
Have some creative colourful fun with this free Spooky Halloween ‘Hidden’ Pumpkin Art Template.
Experiment with felt tip pens, paints, oil pastels, crayons, pencils.
For a more challenging activity with older children, try filling some of the shapes with pattern or collage.
Encourage children to think about the range of colours they choose, to make the
pumpkin stand out from the background.
Happy Halloween!
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
This modern geometric Easter Egg Card template is ready to print, fold, colour and send.
Children of all ages can have fun selecting colours and filling in the triangles.
Great for practicing fine motor skills and developing a sense of colour and design.
You can also cut the eggs out and use for bunting or other classroom or home decor.
Are you looking for a fun, creative apple themed resource pack to celebrate the End of Year?
This detailed apple 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, shape, abstract pattern, and graphic design, whilst also providing colourful, apple inspired decor for the classroom, homeschool or summer club.
Students can enjoy art activities, along with making a card for their teacher and wristbands and bookmarks for themselves. There are posters and bunting to bring fun and colour to walls and noticeboards
Contents of the pack:
1. best ever teacher colour poster to decorate the classroom
2. best ever teacher poster template to colour
3. best ever teacher card to make
4. abstract oil pastel art activity - with template and coloured example
5. apple border pages for creative writing and drawing activities
6. doodle apple colouring page for early finishers
7. apple wristband and bookmark making activities with sentences to finish
8. decorative apple bunting for the classroom, just cut out and hang
Key materials needed:
1. heavyweight paper
3. felt tips / pencils / oil pastels / crayons / watercolour paints and brushes
4. scissors
5. string / tape / pegs if you would like to make a mini garland with the doodle apples
This art pack is suitable to use for End of Year, Teacher Appreciation Week, or as an abstract art project at any time of year - especially around Autumn and harvest time.
Please take a look around my store, where you’ll find lots of inspiring and affordable
resource packs to spark young imaginations and keep creativity flowing.
‘A Ball About Me’, is a fun, first week back to school, all about me creative art activity.
This football template invites students to respond to prompts in a personal, way using doodles and graffiti style lettering.
16 Instructions/prompts on the ball template include:
Name, Age, Self Portrait,
Favourite Song, Food, Book, Sport and Colour
Activities: Colour this, take a line for a walk, draw circles, squares, triangles, lines.
This resource also includes the following:
‘A Ball About Me’ garland for students to decorate and display.
With 2 letters per page, this will make a large welcoming banner for the new classroom or bulletin board.
For early finishers and relaxation time:
Make a football bookmark
Explore pattern, shape and colour with two additional abstract football doodle worksheets.
Materials needed:
You will only need basic materials for this activity - good quality paper for printing, coloured pencils and marker pens, string or pegs for the garland.
The photographed colour example included in the pack uses a black ball point pen and marker pens to create a modern, illustrative style to appeal to year 3’s and above.
The finished artworks make a fabulous eye catching group wall display and also work well laminated and suspended from the ceiling. Watch them spin!
They also look great as personal journal or sketchbook covers for students.
Ideal for use as an icebreaker activity or as an art specific lesson.
UK/Aus/NZ version, with ‘favourite colour’ spelling is included in the pack
Please contact me if you have any questions regarding this resource, I am always keen to help,
Thanks for visiting my store!
Diane
I have designed 10 Father's Day card templates for children to colour.
The preview shows all 10 designs which include the popular themes of ties, footballs, rosettes, medals and also cards where children can finish the sentence, such as , 'I love you more than...."
The designs are modern and imaginative, and created to encourage exploration of colour, design, pattern and abstract shape.
Card designs are placed on half the page and ready to fold.
They can be printed on A4 or US letter size paper and then trimmed to the border which measures 7x5 inches.
I hope you like them! If you have any queries, please email me
diane@theimaginationbox.com
Bring some fun and visual arts into the first week back at school with this creative activity and bulletin board decor pack, inspired by ‘the artist’s paint palette and the colours of the rainbow’.
A great way to learn more about your new students and also to encourage them to find out more about each other.
In this 15 page pack, you will receive the following:
1. Activities and Templates:
- ‘All about Me’ activity worksheet - a paint palette to complete, with name, age and 8 questions to explore
- ‘My Top Ten Goals’ activity worksheet, where students write their aims for the year along 10 paint brushes, and can add colour or design and pattern too.
- My favourite colours activity worksheet - develop creating colour palettes
- Doodle design activity worksheet - design, colour and describe 9 unique patterns
- Blank artist palette templates in colour and outline, for freestyle activities
2. Bulletin board and classroom decorations:
- Artist paint palette ‘Welcome!’ garland to cut out and hang
- Picasso Display Poster, ’ Every Child is an Artist’
- Matisse Display Poster, ’ Art takes Courage’
- Coloured paint splodges for bulletin board ideas
- Outline paint splodges for bulletin board ideas and messages, words etc
All designs are individually created by Diane at The Imagination Box on Adobe Illustrator. These are vector images, so the worksheets can be enlarged without losing quality or looking pixelated.
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!