This is the final set of my Just the Kids Clipart Bundle :))
For $5 you get a set of 30 kids illustrations, in both color and black and white. The kids come in different hair types and skin tones. Combine them with my other kids sets to create interesting resources for your classroom!
What’s in the set?
1. Kids Jumping
Most of them look excited and happy, though there are also other emotions like anger.
A mix of happy faces, plus other expressions like angry, sad and surprised
Poses include raising hands, folding arms, heads on desks, pointing, elbows on desk, reading, writing, VR headset and more.
Black and white versions of every kid
A Few Ideas
1. Build a classroom Scene
Build a scene that show diversity and different emotions in the classroom.
(Note: the background, bookcase and clock are not included in this set.)
2. Crop away the table legs to better fit into task cards
You can crop my clipart to better fit the space in your resources. Just as long as it doesn’t alter the purpose/essence of it, and as long as it still looks cute!
Zoom in more in PowerPoint for a more precise crop.
This post will show you how to create this MCQ activity in Google Slides.
It will be slightly different from the TpT Easel version and the Boom Cards version because in Google Slides, this activity is not self-checking.
Creating the activity in Google Slides
1. Start a new presentation
Go to Google Slides page on the internet browser you are using. Under ‘Start a new presentation’, click on ‘Blank’.
2. Change the slide size.
The default slide size is Widescreen (16:9). But in this case we are going with Standard 4:3. Use the size that you created your flat backgrounds in.
Go to File > Page setup, and choose Standard 4:3 from the dropdown menu.
3. Add backgrounds
Delete all the default text boxes that are on the slide. Click on ‘Background’. It’s on the sub toolbar on the top.
Click Image > Choose Image, then select the first flat background created in Part 1.
Remember to use the alternative flat backgrounds that we made specially for Google Slides (the directions are slightly different from the ones for TpT Easel and Boom Cards).
4. Insert new slides to add in all the remaining flat backgrounds
After adding in the first background image, insert a new slide.
On that new slide, add background again (repeat step 3). Do this until all 26 flat backgrounds created in Part 1 has been added.
5. Add the magnifying glass clipart
Go to Insert > Image, then add in the magnifying glass clipart that was decided on in Part 1.
6. Format the movable clipart
Resize the magnifying glass clipart and rotate it to nicely frame over the letters on the suitcases.
In this example the parameters are:
Width: 5cm
Height: 8.23 cm
Rotate (at) angle: 315 degrees
7. Add drop shadow to the movable clipart
It is optional to add drop shadow to the movable clipart, but it’ll be nice to make it stand out a little more.
With the movable piece selected, click on “…” (more) in the sub toolbar and select Format Options. Check the box on Drop Shadow.
8. Find a spot to park the movable clipart
Anywhere will do. On hindsight, it could have been a good idea to create a holding area for the magnifying glass somewhere on the background, but it’s not a 100% necessary.
9. Copy and paste the magnifying glass clipart into every slide
The magnifying glass will be in the same location on every slide.
10. Test out the activity!
Try completing the entire activity like a student would to ensure everything is as you’d want it to be.
11. Rename the Google Slides
Once you’re done testing out the activity, rename the slides.
This is part 3, and is a continuation from Part 1 – Preparations where the parts needed for this post was created.
Boom Learning is a cool platform that allows you to create interactive and self-checking digital learning resources. It’s free to get started, but you’ll need a Publisher membership if you want to sell the Boom Cards that you’ve created. (This is my Boom referral link if you are not on Boom Learning yet).
That brings you to the Deck Manager page, and now click the New Deck blue button.
2. Add new cards from images
In the left thumbnails column, look for the ‘New cards from images’ button and click it.
3. Add all the flat backgrounds
Upload all of the 26 flat backgrounds created in Part 1.
Adding the backgrounds in small batches might be a good idea here so that you can divide and conquer. Because the backgrounds will be uploaded out of order, and subsequently, dragging around 26 slides to rearrange them can be tedious.
4. Add a button
Next, drag the ‘BUTTON’ box into the deck area (dark blue boxes in the left column toolbar).
5. Format the button into a transparent rectangle box
First resize the button to about the size of one suitcase and delete the ‘button’ text so that there’s no more text in the box.
Making it transparent
Set border style to none (bottom 3rd section in the right column toolbar)
Set background color to no background color (bottom 2nd section in the right column toolbar)
The button has been designated as a ‘correct’ answer by default so it will appear green.
6. Copy and paste the rectangle so that every suitcase gets one
Copy and paste to have 2 more rectangles and arrange them neatly over each suitcase. All 3 rectangles will still have green outlines.
7. Copy and paste the ‘Correct’ rectangles into all 26 cards
Select all 3 rectangles, then copy and paste them into all 26 cards. They should land at the exact same spot in every card.
8. Revisit each page to change the answer options for the ‘Wrong’ suitcases
Hold down the ‘Shift’ key and select the 2 wrongs options in each card, then under ‘Answer Options’, click ‘Wrong’.
Do that for every card.
The boxes for the wrong answers should turn red, while the boxes for the correct answer stay green.
9. Preview and play the entire deck to make sure there are no errors
We are almost done! To be sure there are no errors, play the entire deck from start to finish.
10. Name the activity and fill out all the details for the deck
Add in details that will help buyers know what the deck can do for them!
Go to Easel by TpT, click on “Create” (blue rounded button), and then select Activity for listing.
2. Start with PDF
In the pop-up box, choose Start with a PDF and upload the flat backgrounds PDF created in Part 1.
3. Import all pages
Check the “Select All” box, and leave the “Add margins” box unchecked.
(TpT Easel now accepts PNG/JPEG, but you can only upload 25 background images at a time.)
4. Add a rectangle shape
Click on the shape tool in the toolbar and select the square shape to draw a rectangle.
Make the rectangle about the size of a suitcase.
5. Remove the border of the rectangle
With the rectangle selected, click on the border (pencil) tool, then click on the “slash” to remove the border from the rectangle.
6. Mark the rectangle as ‘Incorrect’
With the 1st rectangle selected, click on the check/cross icon on the floating toolbar and click on ‘Incorrect’.
The rectangle should look red now.
7. Copy and paste the ‘Incorrect’ rectangle so each suitcase gets one.
Copy and paste to make enough rectangles and arrange them neatly over each suitcase.
8. Copy and paste the ‘Incorrect’ rectangles into every page
With all 3 rectangles selected, copy and paste them over all the suitcases in all 26 pages. They should land at exactly the same spot on every page.
At this step, you will see error messages because you haven’t picked a correct answer for every step. Just ignore it until you pasted into all 26 pages.
9. Revisit each page to change the grading for the ‘Correct’ rectangle
Now that every suitcase has its own box, go back through all 26 pages to change the grading for the ‘Correct’ rectangles.
You should only see 1 green box on each page when you are done.
10. View as Student
The activity is almost done! Now check to see that there are no errors by playing through the entire activity as a student.
11. Name the Activity
When everything is in place, give the activity a fun, thematic name.
I’m going to make this a lowercase to uppercase recognition activity, and have 1 task card for each alphabet from a to z, in that order.
Teachers using this resource can choose to mix things up, or to assign certain letters within the set. Boom Cards can be automatically shuffled so students complete the activity in random order.
Write a list of your MCQ options like this:
a: H, D, A b: B, D, P c: G, Q, C d: D, R, E (etc.)
You can also use doodle borders, background colors, textures, or even just leave the background empty as is, even though that’s going to look really plain.
5. Add Additional Details
Detail #1: directions
Detail #2: copyright sign
6. Alternative directions for Google Slides version
Do this on a new slide because we need an alternative version of the flat backgrounds for Google Slides.
Change #1: student can’t click to select the correct answer in the Google Slides version, so we are going to add a magnifying glass clipart. Students will move the magnifying glass over their chosen answer to select it (according to my Terms of Use, it is necessary to get an Extended License for Movable Pieces if you intend to use the magnifying glass clipart this way).
Change #2: the directions therefore has to be changed to something like ‘Move the magnifying glass to the correct suitcase’.
Create the Flat Backgrounds
1. Change the lowercase alphabet in the speech bubbles from A to Z.
In a new PowerPoint file, copy and paste in the slide design.
Duplicate the slide to make 26 slides altogether. Then change the lowercase letter in each slide going from a to z.
2. Change the answer options on the suitcases
After changing all the letters in the speech bubbles, now change the answer options in the suitcases according to the list you created in the previous section.
3. Change the secret agent kid character on each slide
This can take a little bit of work. But representation is very important so it’s important to do this.
There are enough kid characters of different poses, ethnicity and abilities in the Secret Agent Kids set to have a different kid representation for each of the 26 slides.
If you want to ensure that the clipart kids will be of the same proportions to each other, use the format pane to set the dimensions by scaling height/width. In this example, the kids are scaled at 16%. See my PowerPoint Notes on Working with Clipart point no. 5.
4. Flat Backgrounds for Google Slides
The flat backgrounds for TpT Easel and Boom Cards are completed in the previous step.
For the Google Slides version, we just need to change the directions.
Duplicate the existing flat backgrounds PowerPoint file to have a separate one for the Google Slides version.
Then copy and paste in the alternative directions into all 26 slides.
Export the Parts
1. Export the flat backgrounds as PDF
*** Update: TpT Easel now allows you to upload PNG/JPEG for the backgrounds so it’s no longer necessary to export the flat backgrounds of PDF. Though if you have lots of pages, like in this activity, PDF can still be easier because TpT Easel only allows you to upload 25 images at a time.
Export as PDF (for TpT Easel)
To create for TpT Easel, export the backgrounds as PDF (File > Export). PDF is already selected as the default file format.
2. Export the flat backgrounds as PNG
Export as PNG (for Boom Cards/Google Slides)
So as noted in the previous section, you need a different set of PNGs for Boom Cards and Google Slides, so you have to export them separately.
Export the backgrounds as JPEG/PNG (you have to change the file format selection). Also select the ‘Save every slide’ button. Set the export width to at least 1600px.
Next Steps
Now that the movable pieces and flat backgrounds have been created, it time to put the activity together on a digital platform.
In this post, we’ll put the activity together in Google Slides.
If you haven’t prepared the flat backgrounds yet, check out Part 1 first.
To create this activity in TpT Easel instead, check out Part 2.
Or to create this activity in Boom Cards, check out Part 3.
Note: only the Boom Cards version of this activity is self-checking. The Googles Slides and TpT Easel versions are not.
Creating the activity in Google Slides
1. Start a new presentation
In the Google Slides page, under ‘Start a new presentation’, click on ‘Blank’.
2. Set the slide size.
The default slide size is Widescreen (16:9). But I’m going to use the dimensions that I created the flat backgrounds in, so I’m gonna set the slide size to 4:3.
Go to File > Page setup, and choose Standard 4:3 from the dropdown menu.
3. Add background to slide
Delete all the default text boxes that are on the slide.
Click on ‘Background’ (2nd layer of toolbars).
Under Image > Choose Image, then select the 1st flat background created in Part 1 to upload.
4. Add in the other flat backgrounds
Insert more slides, one for each flat background remaining (right click on the thumbnails sidebar and choose ‘New Slide’).
On each new slide, add background again (i.e. repeat step 3) until all 7 flat backgrounds are added.
5. Add a text box
Google slides does not have a dedicated ‘fill in the blank’ or ‘answer box’ feature unlike TpT Easel and Boom Cards. So we are just gonna have to add a plain old text box.
Click on the Text box icon, then click and drag somewhere in the rainbow’s cloud.
6. Select ‘Do not auto-fit’
A height-adjustment icon will appear beside your new text box. Click on it and select the ‘Do not auto-fit’ option.
Text boxes sometimes expands or shrinks depending on the number of characters being typed in them. In this case we want the text box to stay the same size no matter what students type in them, and selecting ‘do no auto-fit’ will fix that.
7. Resize the text box to fit nicely in the rainbow’s cloud.
After selecting do not auto-fit, you can now freely resize your text box. Move your cursor to one of the corners and start resizing it.
8. Change the fill color of the text box
Without fill color, students won’t be able to see the text box there. The fill color hints at them that there’s something to be done there.
So with the text box selected, click on the color bucket tool. The given colors there are not great, so click on the ‘+’ sign under ‘Custom’.
A new box will pop up. You can move the sliders and click on different positions in the color map to experiment with the colors.
In this case I’m just going to type in the color code (#E3F9FF) of a light blue that I already use. For more on color codes, see my PowerPoint tutorial on using colors.
An alternative option would be to add a border around the text box.
9. Set the font, font size and alignment
The font, font size and alignment tools are all found on the 2nd layer of toolbars. You can only use Google Fonts on Google Slides, and there are A LOT more Google Fonts than just the ones in the given list, so click on ‘More fonts’ to browse them.
In this case, I’m going to use ‘Luckiest Guy’ again like I did in Part 2, at font size 69, and with the alignment set to center.
After clicking on ‘More Fonts’, you’ll see something like this… If you already know the name of the font you want to use, you can just type its name, otherwise just explore the options.
10. Add a 2nd text box in the other cloud
We need 2 text boxes on each slide, so after you have set everything right for the first text box, copy and paste to create a 2nd one. Position both neatly in the rainbow’s clouds.
11. Copy and paste both boxes into every slide
With the first 2 clouds in place, copy and paste them into every slide. The text boxes should be pasted right where you want them to be automatically.
12. Run through the entire activity to make sure everything looks great
Now that everything is set, complete the activity as a student to make sure everything looks right.
Unlike TpT Easel or Boom Cards that have a Preview option, after testing the activity, you have to manually delete/undo what you’ve typed.
13. Rename the Google Slides
Once everything is good, rename the slides and the activity is complete!
As of this post, Boom Learning is one of the only platforms that allow you to create fill-in-the-blank activities that are self-checking. That’s very important because students can receive immediate feedback and students can save time.
(It’s free to get started on Boom Learning, but you’ll need a Publisher membership if you want to sell the Boom Cards that you’ve created.)
Creating the activity in Boom Cards
1. Add a new deck
(If you haven’t checked out Part 1 of this series, head there first to create the flat backgrounds needed for this part.)
Next, drag the ‘FILL IN THE BLANK’ box into the deck area (dark blue boxes in the left column toolbar).
5. Resize the ‘fill in the blank’ box
Move the ‘fill in the blank’ box over to the rainbow and resize it using corner arrows. Have the box fit neatly in the rainbow’s cloud.
6. Submit an answer for the ‘fill in the blank’ box
Double click on the ‘fill in the blank’ box and a pop-up window will appear. Type the correct answer into the box and click submit.
This feature can allow for multiple correct answers, though in this case we only need 1 answer.
7. Format the ‘fill in the blank’ box
In the same ‘Answer Picker’ pop-up window, pick out a font and font size. In this example, I used ‘Just Another Hand’ at font size 64.
Also, you can add additional formating by checking boxes like ‘numerical’ and ‘ignore white space’. That means students can only type numbers into this ‘fill in the blank box’, and their answer will still be accepted even if they typed in extra spaces.
8. Test it out
Click on ‘Preview’ and test out the 1st ‘fill in the blank’ box to see how it will look and be sure it works. The box will read ’40’ in edit mode, but will be empty as it should be in Preview mode.
9. Copy and paste to create a second ‘fill in the blank’ box
After confirming the 1st one looks great, copy and paste to create a 2nd ‘fill in the blank’ box. Move the 2nd box into the 2nd cloud on the rainbow. You can use arrow keys on your keyboard to nudge the box into the exact position you want.
10. Copy and paste both ‘fill in the blank’ boxes into every card in the deck
All the pasted boxes should land at the same exact positions in every slide, which makes things really neat. All the boxes will still say ’40’ for now, and in the next step we’ll change the submitted answer for every box.
11. Change the submitted answer for every box
Double click on each answer box and delete the previously submitted answer ’40’ by click on the ‘x’ beside it. Then type the required answer and click submit.
12. Preview and play the entire deck to make sure there are no errors
The deck is about done! To be sure there are no errors, test play the entire deck from start to finish.
13. Name the activity and fill out all the details for the deck
Name the activity, and add in details that will help buyers make their decision!
