How to use Clipart: Chains and Stacks (Chapter 8)
This chapter features ways to use clipart that form stacks (ice cream cone, snow man, rockets, Christmas tree) and chains (caterpillar, clothing line, train, tractor). These are great for hands-on matching, sorting and building activities.
Feel free to use the ideas and themes interchangeably!
The Ideas
Idea #1: Tractor Sight Words Build
Clipart: Tractor + Wagon
Skill: Sight Words
Notes: You can use this theme to create spelling activities for both sight words and phonics words.
Idea #2: Tractor Wagons
Clipart: Tractor + Wagon
Skill: Number Sentences/Addition Facts
Notes: Chains are also great for multiple answer MCQ style questions. Students color the wagons with the correct answers.
Idea #3: Caterpillar Skip Counting
Clipart: Caterpillar Head + Caterpillar Body
Skill: Skip Counting
Notes: The caterpillar makes great matching/sorting/building/counting activities!
Idea #4: Christmas Lights Number Sentences
Clipart: Christmas Lights + Line
Skill: Composing Number Sentences
Notes: You can create this with any chain or stack that has components with different colors!
Idea #5: Christmas Lights Patterns
Clipart: Christmas Lights + Line
Skill: Patterns
Notes: Here’s another activity that you can create using components that come in different colors.
Idea #6: Addition Ice Cream Cone
Clipart: Ice Cream Scoop + Cone
Skill: Addition Matching
Notes: This is technically great for any matching activity!
Idea #7: Ice Cream Cone Alphabets
Clipart: Ice Cream Scoop + Cone
Skill: Alphabet
Notes: This is another example of multiple matching activity with the same ice cream scoop and cone clipart. You can layer both text and clipart into the scoop.
Idea #8: Christmas Tree Word Stacks
Clipart: Christmas Tree Stacks
Skill: Phonics Ladder
Notes:
Idea #9: Clothing Line Subitizing
Clipart: Clothing Line + Shirt
Skill: Subitizing/Counting Fingers/Dice
Notes: This makes a great base for any sorting activity!
Idea #10: Phonics Train
Clipart: Train Head + Train Car
Skill: Beginning Blends
Notes: Trains are very versatile, and can be used for most sorting, matching, and building activities.
Idea #11: Snowman Name Craft
Clipart: Snowman Head + Snowman Body + Hat + Sticks
Skill: Name/Spelling
Notes: This makes for a great craft!
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
