How to use Clipart: Background Scenes (Chapter 11)
Backgrounds make your resources feel more immersive and make students forget that they are doing ‘work’. Once you get used to having them around, it can be hard to go without.
The Ideas
Idea #1: Strip Puzzles
Clipart: Picnic Kids + Parks Background
Skill: Counting/Skip Counting
Notes: This works great for a variety of skills where students have to arrange the numbers/letters/words in order.
Idea #2: Mystery Picture Puzzle
Clipart: Outer Space Background
Skill: Counting
Notes: This can be used for any literacy/math skill like a matching activity.
Idea #3: Hidden Words Activity
Clipart: Jungle Background + Monkeys + Bears + Rhinos
Skill: R-Controlled Sounds
Notes: This is great for skills like sight words, phonics, math facts, sentence scramble etc.
Idea #4: Emergent Reader
Clipart: Ice Cream Truck Kids + Parks Background
Skill: Reading
Notes: Add backgrounds to your reading resources to make it fun and immersive for your students.
Idea #5: Sentence Writing
Clipart: Prehistoric Backgrounds + Dinosaurs
Skill: Writing
Notes: Use backgrounds to create settings for writing activities.
Idea #6: Following Directions
Clipart: Fairytale Backgrounds + Squirrel
Skill: Following Directions
Notes: Having a background clipart sets the scene for a fun and imaginative following directions activity. The directions can interact directly with the background.
Idea #7: Digital Activity
Clipart: Magician Kids Clipart
Skill: Three Letter Blends
Notes: Use backgrounds to set the stage for any thematic Boom Cards or Google Slides activity.
How to Use Clipart
I have been thinking about how teachers use clipart for a long time now, so that my clipart can be really useful. And these chapters are the result of all that figuring out. Each chapter introduces a way of thinking about clipart to help you make the most of your purchases and grow your TpT store.
Chapter 1 – Single Clipart Matching
Chapter 4 – Multiple Items Matching
Chapter 5 – Containers + Matching Items
Chapter 6 – Empty Clipart Space
Chapter 10 – Clipart Characters
