Daily Theme Creative Ideas​

Day 1 - (March 2nd) – Weather

Wellington boot splash picture.

On a plain piece of paper (remember to name it first … there will be a whole class load of similar ones) splodge some blue ready-mix paint. It will work better if the ready mix has had some water added to it. If appropriate (some children don’t like doing it as it makes them feel lightheaded) use a straw to ‘spread’ the blue paint about, if not blowing use a brush or fingers. Make sure the blue ‘slash’ is bigger than the wellington boots!

While this is drying the children can colour in the wellington boots. Click HERE to download the template.  It works better if it is lots of bold and bright colours, and you use felt pens or colouring pencils.

Now cut out the boots and add them onto the picture!

SPLASH!

 

Day 2 - (March 3rd) - in the Forest

Forest outline animals painting

Download animal outlines HERE. Enlarge individual animal outlines. Children carefully cut out the outlines. These are them placed on paper. A few small blobs of blutac will help them hold it still. With a brush with some paint on move from the dot in the middle of the animal shape to well over the edge of the shape. Always paint from the centre of the shape outwards. Carefully remove the shape. It would be a good exercise for colour mixing activities, trying to get as many ‘forest’ colours as possible.

 

Day 3 - (March 4th) – Dinosaurs

Madasaurus dinosaur collage

This one needs a fair deal of preparation and is more suited to EY and KS1 but could be adapted. 

Preparation: Using large carboard boxes create some stand up dinosaurs. CLICK HERE for ideas of the finished product.

Give the children an assortment of ‘things’ (buttons, beads, coloured paper shapes, stickers… etc) to decorate the cut outs. Instead of aiming to be particularly neat and tidy let them go ‘mad’ … it is a Madasaurus after all!

 

Day 4 - (March 5th) - Books (World Book Day)

Why not make your own mini book (sometimes called a mini-zien) CLICK here to visit a webpage with info, and an instruction sheet you can download.

 

As often is the case with external websites this is not a link to share with children. There are possible links on the page that are not suitable for primary school children, but the downloadable instruction sheet is!

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Day 5 -(March 6th) - Up in the Sky

Hanging display

Here are a few ideas for this one: 1) on thick (but still thin enough to cut with scissors) get the children to draw out things that ‘fly’, after it is cut out, get them to draw the same thing on the back… but of course it will be a mirror image! Hang them up in the classroom above the desks. 2) make a ‘Whacky Flying Things” display ask the children to bring in things that would ‘never fly’ (make sure they are not too big) things like an odd sock, a banana, a plastic mug etc…. then using card and sticky tape get the children to make ‘wings’ for them and hang them above the desks…. Googly eyes and Sharpie smiley mouths always makes things more fun!

 

Day 6 - (March 9th) - Small Things

Magnifying glass drawing

If you can find some small things and real magnifying glasses, it is a wonderful thing to get children to try drawing things really close up. Drawing things much bigger than they really are is difficult for children, but a good drawing exercise.  Down load the magnifying glass template HERE if you want to ‘frame’ the picture. Draw in the glass bit them cut out the whole shape.
 

Day 7 - (March 10th ) - Something beginning with E

This one is for older children. A good opportunity to explore what a dictionary is, and how it can be used. Create a sort of illustrated dictionary. Each child in class has to choose a collection of words, starting with an E, and create an illustrated dictionary entry:

The Word, A brief definition, and then a picture.

These could be compiled into (alphabetical) order and displayed as a class ‘Dictionary for E’
 

Day 8 - (March 11th ) - A Magic World

Print off the collection of “Magical World’ art ideas cards Page one HERE and page 2 HERE. If you can print on card or mount them on card it will mean they cannot see what’s on them. Get them to pick 5 cards. They can draw any Magical World picture, but they must include these 5 things. Encourage them to draw their own version of the images, but they can copy if they feel they need to. 

 

Day 9 - (March 12th) – Pattern

Patterned bedsheets 

Using the template HERE colour the bed sheets and pillowcase in a wonderful pattern. You can use whatever medium suites your children best. They can draw in themselves sleeping (eyes closed!) or another character! Colour before cutting out! Carefully cut out the bed, bed sheets and person. Then stick them down! 

 

Day 10 -(March 13th) - In the Kitchen

Plate of food 

(Use small paper plates- it makes the task easier!) Using an assortment of materials (paper, card, sponge, wool etc) create a plate full of ‘food’ if you used a lot of PVA glue it will take a while to dry, but the finished result look better especially if you have things like wool as spaghetti or rolled up tissue paper balls as pees or sweetcorn. Try not to be too restrictive – let them use their imagination! You could make a patterned tablecloth (in connection with day 9’s pattern… how about knives and forks made from silver card!?

(A good opportunity to talk about healthy eating)