How to use Clipart: Characters (Chapter 10)
Characters can be kids, animal friends, robots, monsters, bugs, etc. They can stimulate loads more play and imagination in your activities. Use these ideas to get started!
The Ideas
Idea #1: Halloween Kids Possessive Pronouns
Clipart: Halloween Kids + Halloween Things
Skill: Grammar/Possessive Pronouns
Notes: The Kids and Things bundles are great for creating all kinds of sentences, stories and other grammar activities!
Idea #2: Verbs Task Cards
Clipart: Summer Variety Kids
Skill: Verbs
Notes: Verbs can be an important consideration in making clipart purchases.
Idea #3: Laundry Story Problems
Clipart: Laundry Kids
Skill: Story Problems/Addition/Subtraction
Notes: Thematic kid characters inspire great story problems!
Idea #4: Thematic Multiple Choice
Clipart: Magician Kids
Skill: Ending Blends
Notes: The kid character is holding the magician cups, and the activity uses those cups as the theme. Find as many of such combinations you can to create fun thematic activities!
Idea #5: Write the Room
Clipart: Detective Kids
Skill: Place Values
Notes: Characters are great imaginative additions to any worksheet even if they are not absolutely necessary.
Idea #6: Thematic Kids Task Cards
Clipart: Secret Agent Kids + Speech Bubbles
Skill: Place Values
Notes: Add speech bubbles to any character clipart to turn them into fun activities.
Idea #7: Detective Case Files Matching
Clipart: Detective Kids
Skill: Addition/Number Words
Notes: This activity uses the matching items principle, except it uses kid characters and their matching item.
Idea #8: Real or Nonsense Sandwich Color by Code
Clipart: Kid + Sandwich
Skill: Real or Nonsense CVC Words
Notes: Add characters to any color by code worksheet even though you don’t HAVE to.
Idea #9: Before and After Beavers
Clipart: Beaver + Log
Skill: 10 more, 10 less/Before and After
Notes: You can use substitute characters as the matching item for any of the ideas in the Matching Things chapters!
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
