Description
Make back to school fun with this cool T-shirt All About Me art activity for kids. Engage upper elementary and middle schoolers, build a strong classroom community, and reduce first-week anxiety.
Learn helpful facts about your students as they reconnect, share about themselves, get to know each other, and set goals for the year ahead.
What’s included in this T-shirt All About Me?
1. T-shirt all about me art activities
- There are 15 sections to respond to prompts with mini drawings and doodles. Prompts include self-portrait, name, age, grade, favorite color, fruit, vegetable, sport, movie, and song
- Choose from a selection of creative template optionsy according to the age and ability of your students. For example, confident students can use a blank template and draw their own lines and boxes to fill in
2. T-shirt all about me writing prompts
- There are 15 prompts to respond to with words. These include my top 3 goals this year, something I like at school, something I find challenging, if I were a superhero, I can make the world better by, I feel happy when, I feel sad when, I aim to, and I wonder if
- Additional writing templates explore goal setting and summer memories
- Untitled lined T-shirt templates are included for you to use in your own way
How can this activity help?
- Build a strong sense of community during the first week back to school
- Safe for shy or nervous students to share about themselves
- Meet the Teacher
- Open House
- Bulletin board displays
- ESL students
- Students with learning disabilities
- Encourage creativity in those less confident
- Goal setting and growth mindset
- Social and emotional – help students explore their feelings
- Welcoming new students
- New teacher introduction
- Helpful low-prep project for substitute teachers
- End of Year reviews
Happy teacher feedback
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Diana Y says,
“This is adorable! It’s visual which makes it very accessible to students. It also helps them to personalize the work they’re doing in the place of a traditional intro form.”
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Victoria K says,
“This is the perfect size for my students to use; it is not too large or small. This makes learning about one another fun and not intimidating. Great to use at the beginning of a year.”
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Cedee Teaches says,
“This is easily my favorite back to school activity so far. You really learn a lot about your students and they are so proud of their shirt when they are done. I like to post their creations all over the classroom door when they’re all finished.”
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Diane
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