Description
This cell phone all about me art and writing activity is ideal for the first week back to school. It’s a fun way for you to connect with your new students. Kids love their phones and respond enthusiastically to this ‘cool’ activity.
Invite them to construct a fold-out booklet-style ‘art-phone’, and respond to image-making prompts on the front cover and the written elements inside.
Ideal for use as a back-to-school icebreaker and community-building activity.
Contents: Front Cover of ‘Phone’
- Invite students to respond to and illustrate the 9 questions or prompts, with thumbnail doodles or drawings: Age, My family, Best food, Favorite Animal, Favorite Color, Best subject, Dream destination, I love…I don’t like….
Contents: Inner Fold Out Pages
- ’Let’s Chat’ is designed in a text message style and asks more investigative questions: How will you achieve your goals? What support do you need? What do you like most about school? What do you like least about school?
- ’More About Me’ prompts the following: My top 3 goals, 5 fascinating facts about me, People like me because….Open-ended questions to complete. I aim to… I wonder if…I imagine that…. I feel….
- Also included: Cell phone-shaped All About Us banner making activities to decorate the classroom
- Also included: Abstract mobile phone coloring activity, exploring warm and cool colors – great for early finishers.
Other Information
- Templates can be printed on US letter and A4-sized paper
- Please note this activity includes 2 sizes of art-phone templates to choose from: a smartphone size 3.7×7.3 inches and a tablet size 5 x 10 inches
- Students can also opt to do the one-dimensional cover or the full fold-out option with written responses
- Templates with UK/CAN/NZ/AUS spellings for ‘favourite and colour” templates are included
Materials Needed
- Heavyweight paper/card stock for printing
- Scissors and glue stick
- Pens/ pencils/ colored markers for the artwork and written work
- These templates are designed to print on US letter/A4 size paper
Tips on how to use and display
- Encourage students to move beyond words, and ‘draw their answers’
- Consider the space around the images they draw
- How do the 9 images look collectively?
- Is there an emerging theme or style or color?
- What colors do we associate with words? eg carrot: orange and green
- How do students feel about the first week back to school?
- It’s OK to express dislikes as well as likes, our fears, along with our hopes
- Work imaginatively!
- The photographed example uses a black ballpoint pen and marker pens
- The completed art-phones slip comfortably into a back pocket for play.
- They will work well pegged up collectively as a classroom garland or can decorate a wall, door, or bulletin board.
Happy teacher feedback
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Jessie R says,
“Was honestly surprised by how much my students loved this activity. They were super creative and it was something they could relate to in real life.”
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Catherine M says,
“The 6th graders really thought this was a cool “back to school” activity. I displayed their work on the document camera as they shared! I learned a lot about the students as well, through the activity. It also made a nice bulletin board.”
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Morgan M says,
“I love this resource. It is a fun way to start the beginning of the school year. My students really love that it looks like an Instagram page. I feel like it is a great way to connect with students in the beginning of the year and different than all the other All About Me pages they have done in years prior. ”
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All original artwork ©The ImaginationBox/Diane Pagan
