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.
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.
Don’t you just love a bag with multiple useful storage compartments? This chapter is about clipart that has naturally occurring sections that function just like storage compartments.
Sections can come in very handy for skills where there are multiple question inputs. Check out the ideas below!
The Ideas
Idea #1: Halloween Place Values
Clipart:Coffin – less details Skill: Place Values/Tens and Ones Notes: This is a 3-section example. One section serves as the question input, while the other 2 are for students to answer the question. The horizontal wooden strips worked perfectly for this example!
Idea #2: Soda Cans Synonyms and Antonyms
Clipart:Soda Can Skill:Synonyms and Antonyms Notes: The soda can gives you 2 sections. That’s great for synonyms, verbs, nouns, adjectives, comparing numbers, etc.
Idea #3: 10 More 10 Less Dino Eggs
Clipart:Dinosaur Egg Nest Skill: 10 more 10 less Notes: This is a special category of sections – 3 in a row! That’s perfect for 1 more 1 less, number order, etc.
Idea #4: Honeycomb Facts
Clipart:Honeycomb Skill: Addition Facts/Number Sentences Notes: If you have a clipart with many, many sections, it’s great for multiple answer MCQs. In this example it’s equal equations. Students color all the answers that are equal to 10. It can work for rhymes, subitizing, sight words, etc.
Idea #5: Snow Fort Sight Words
Clipart:Snow Fort Skill: Sight Words Notes: This is another example of a clipart with many, many sections. In this case, it’s an example of sight words. Out of the many options, students select all of the particular sight word.
Idea #6: Carrot Patch Comparing Numbers
Clipart:Carrots 2 in a row Skill: Comparing Numbers Notes: Here are 2 sections, and students color/select the correct one. With this particular carrot patch, there are more possibilities, since it’s possible to add text in the soil patch too.
Idea #7: Missing Number Ants
Clipart:Ant Skill: Missing Number Notes: The ant gives 3 sections. So that’s great for missing numbers, number order, etc.
Idea #8: Umbrella Fact Families
Clipart:Umbrella Skill: Addition and Subtraction Fact Families Notes: The 3 sections of the umbrella hold the 3 numbers needed to form the fact families. Look above and below for more ways to use 3 sections.
Idea #9: Pumpkin Fact Families
Clipart:Pumpkin Skill: Multiplication and Division Fact Families Notes: This is pretty much like Idea #8, just for a slightly different skill.
Idea #10: Balloon Bunch Number Order
Clipart:Balloon Bunch Skill: Number Order Notes: Here’s another idea for 3 sections!
Idea #11: Irregular Verbs Cauldron
Clipart:Cauldron Skill: Irregular Verbs Notes: This is a 2-section thing where you use one section for the question input, and the other section for students to write their answers.
Idea #12: Snow Mountain Adjectives
Clipart:Snow Mountain Skill: Adjectives Notes: This is another 2-section example where students color/select the correct answer out of the 2.
Idea #13: Lemonade Number Words
Clipart:Lemonade Pitcher Skill: Number Words Notes: Here’s another 2-section example where you use one section for the question input, and the other section for students to write their answers.
Idea #14: Popsicle Rhymes
Clipart:Popsicle Skill: CVC Rhymes Notes: In this 3-section example, students color 2 of the same and leave out the odd one out.
Idea #15: Burger Graphic Organizer
Clipart:Burger Skill: Topic + Details Notes: Sections can also serve as graphic organizers!
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.
Even if all you have is 1 piece of clipart, you can still turn almost any skill into a themed activity. This chapter gives you lots of examples. No more reasons for boring worksheets!
The Ideas
Idea #1: Brownie Word Cards/Task Cards
Clipart:Ant + Brownie Skill: Sight Words (magnetic letters) Notes: I know this is cheating a little since this isn’t exactly 1 clipart, but the point is, never hesitate to layer clipart together to make a more interesting design.
Idea #2: Pot of Gold Ten/Twenty Frames
Clipart:Rainbow with Pot of Gold Skill: 10 Frames Notes: You can create the ten frames easily using the table function in PowerPoint. The squares here are about 0.55″ wide.
Idea #3: Cauldron Addition Path
Clipart:Cauldron Skill: Addition Path (feel free to add subtraction skills too) Notes: You can build a path using clipart. You can also build a board game in this same way!
Idea #4: Ice Cream Number Order
Clipart:Ice Cream Cone Skill: Number Order Notes: You can use to clipart to hold both the questions and the answers.
Idea #5: Baby Dino Number Sequence
Clipart:Baby Dino Hatching Skill: Number Sequence/Missing Number Notes: Instead of having a _________, use a clipart instead!
Idea #6: Number Bonds
Clipart:Fish Skill: Number Bonds Notes: With just 1 clipart, you can add squares and lines in PowerPoint to create your own number bond of any theme.
Idea #7: Fried Chicken Matching Cards
Clipart:Fried Chicken Skill: Digital and Analog Clock Notes: Even though matching activities are best made with matching things, you can still create fun matching activities even if you only have 1 piece of clipart.
Idea #8: Odd One Out
Clipart:Bubble Skill: CVC Rhymes Notes: 1 clipart is great for odd one out activities too!
Idea #9: Counting/Missing Number Crabs
Clipart:Crab Skill: Counting/Missing Number Notes: This is an example of a clipart grid layout that is suitable for a variety of skills. More clipart grid examples below.
Idea #10: Flying Hearts Color by Code
Clipart:Flying Heart Skill:Beginning Blends Notes: Color by codes like this are great for lots of math and literacy skills!
Idea #11: Alphabet Maze
Clipart:Apple Skill: Letter A Alphabet Maze (also great for number paths, addition paths, phonics paths, grammar paths, etc) Notes: Mazes and paths are another great application of clipart grids.
Idea #12: Skip Counting Sandwiches
Clipart:Sandwich Skill: Skip Counting by 5s Notes: Also great for counting on, missing numbers, etc.
Idea #13: Addition
Clipart:Cactus Skill: Addition Notes: This is like using one of the worksheet templates, then instead of the regular tables/boxes, build the table with clipart instead.
Idea #14: One More, One Less
Clipart:Robot Skill: One More, One Less Notes: Use any other clipart to replace the robot to create this in different themes. You can also do other skills like 10 more, 10 less.
Idea #15: Watermelon Expanded Form
Clipart:Watermelon Skill: Place Values – Expanded Form Notes: Here’s where you put the question/prompt in the clipart and have space for answers in the surrounding area.
Clipart:Taco Skill: Fact Families Notes: Here’s another example of putting the question/prompt in the clipart and having space for answers in the surrounding area.
Idea #18: Lemon ABC Order
Clipart:Lemon Skill: ABC Order Notes: You don’t even have to put the questions/answers in the clipart. You just need the clipart in the same box.
Idea #19: Pumpkin Addends
Clipart:Pumpkin Skill: Addends Notes: It looks like 2 different clipart, but it’s kind of the same. One with details and one without. Both are found in the Halloween Things set.
Idea #20: Greater Number Potions
Clipart:Poison Bottle – without label Skill: Comparing Numbers Notes: This works with lots of clipart as long as there are some empty space to layer text.
Idea #21: Flowers Place Values
Clipart:Flower Skill: Place Values Notes: Again, this works with any clipart that has space for some text.
Idea #22: Draw the Word
Clipart:Polaroid Skill: Draw the word (phonics) Notes: You’ll need a little more space for this one, so items like easel, whiteboard, book, etc will make good drawing spaces.
Idea #23: Adding 3 Numbers
Clipart:Peeps Skill: Adding 3 numbers Notes: It’s great if you have the same clipart in a variety of colors. But even if it doesn’t come in multiple colors, it’s gonna work too.
Clipart:Presents Skill: Counting/Addition Notes: This particular example features visual directions using 2 clipart – rolling the dice and chunky crayon.
Idea #26: Digraphs Cut and Paste Sorting Worksheet
Clipart:Strawberry Basket Skill:Digraphs Notes: Clipart can become containers even if they are not that big. Just layer them over a box.
Idea #27: Dove Patterns
Clipart:Dove Skill: Patterns Notes: For this skill, the clipart doesn’t even need to have space for layering text.
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.
Containers are yet another great clipart mechanism to help you create amazing educational resources. Put matching things, text boxes and other clipart inside thematic clipart containers to create some fun!
For each idea, come up with your own variations!
The Ideas
Idea #1: Pepperoni Word Families
Clipart:Pizza Base + Pepperoni Skill: Word Families Notes: This is great for posters, craft, bulletin board display, etc.
Clipart:Empty Nest + Eggs Skill: Syllables Notes: Sorting activities are one of the best use of clipart containers. There are so many skills that sorting activities are great for, and also so many themes that make for great sorting activities. Always be on the lookout for great sorting ideas and themes!
Idea #4: True or False Sorting Laundry Baskets
Clipart:Laundry Basket + Underwear Skill: True or False Notes: True or False is a specific kind of sorting that can also be applied to many skills.
Idea #5: Multiple Choice Fishing
Clipart:Sea + Hook with note + Fish Skill:Digraphs Notes: Containers also make for great MCQ questions. Put the question in the container and the choices in the matching items.
Idea #6: Draw the Cookies (Number Sense)
Clipart:Baking Tray + Cookie Skill: Draw the number Notes: Containers are great for all kinds of number sense activities.
Idea #7: Packing Pretzels (Number Sense)
Clipart:Baggie + Pretzel Skill: Make the number Notes: This is another example of a number sense activity that you can create with containers.
Idea #8: Multiple Answer MCQ Candy Jar
Clipart:Empty Jar + Candy Heart Skill: Sight Words Notes: This setup can be used for many other skills like rhymes, addition, subtraction, alphabet, number sense, etc.
Idea #9: Sandcastle Color by Code
Clipart:Sandcastle + Seashells Skill: Color by Code – Sight Words Notes: Technically it’s possible to create this color by code just with the seashells. But it looks cooler with the sandcastle!
Idea #10: Flip and Cover
Clipart:Sandcastle + Seashells Skill: Addition Notes: Like Idea #9, you can technically create this with just the seashells alone. But using the sandcastle as the ‘container’, it just looks more like fun and less like work.
Idea #11: Cut and Paste Sorting Worksheet
Clipart:Spider Web + Stuck Bug Skill: Odd and Even Numbers Notes: Clipart containers are also great for making thematic cut and paste worksheets.
Idea #12: Thematic Word Search
Clipart:Geological Site + Bones Skill: Sight Words Notes: In future thematic sets, I’m going to try to incorporate more square frames and letter-sized frames, so that they can fit things like word searches, word mazes and 100s charts.
Idea #13: Firefly Addends
Clipart:Empty Jar + Firefly Skill: Addends Notes: In this case, the firefly acts as the placeholder/blank, and the jar is where you write the answer. This setup can be applied to multiple skills like missing letters and missing numbers where you make use of a placeholder/blank.
Idea #14: Secret Agent Writing Paper
Clipart:Briefcase Skill: Writing Paper Notes: Here’s one way to make writing cool! Containers make for great thematic writing papers.
Idea #15: Odd One Out Pizza Slices
Clipart: Pizza Box + Empty Pizza Slices Skill: Odd one out – fruits vs snacks, real animals vs imaginary animals Notes: Once again, this sorting activity setup works any skill you might have in mind.
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.
The ideas in this chapter use a little bit more clipart items.
The Ideas
Idea #1: Potions Addition Recipe
Clipart:Cauldron + Spider + Jack O’ Lantern + Bone Skill: Addition Recipe/Writing Equations Notes: I love this activity, plus there are many other themes you can explore with this activity.
Idea #2: Fast Food Place Values Lunch Bag
Clipart:Lunch Bag + Burger + French Fries + Soda Cup Skill: Place Values/Addition Notes: The clipart for this one is taken from all different sets! So feel free to combine clipart from very different sets when creating your resources!
Idea #3: Secret Notes Graphic Organizer
Clipart:Briefcase + Manila Envelop + File Folder + Notepad Skill: Main Idea + Details Notes: To make this even cooler, add some Secret Agent kids to the page! The kids were left out for this example because the point is just to illustrate the multiple matching items.
Idea #4: Make 10 BBQ
Clipart:Grill + Steak + Burger Skill: Make 10 Notes: Making 10 servings is a fun idea, so you can tell the kids their goal is to feed 10 people.
Idea #5: Weather Equations
Clipart:Cloud + Lightning + Raindrops Skill: Addition/Place Values/Writing Equations Notes: It’s not completely necessary to add the place value element into this. You can snowflakes to this activity if you want to add 3 numbers!
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.
This chapter is about a very specific kind of matching. Feel free to mix up the clipart/theme ideas and skill ideas!
The Ideas
Idea #1: Rainbow Contractions
Clipart:Rainbow 2 + Cloud for the rainbow Skill: Contractions Notes: A rainbow is a beautiful way to do part part whole. You can use the rainbow theme for any of the skills in the ideas below.
Idea #2: Guacamole Part Part Whole
Clipart:Guacamole Cup + Chips Skill: Part Part Whole/Number Bonds Notes: This is my favorite idea for this chapter!
Idea #3: Carrot Farm Place Values
Clipart:Carrots – 2 in a row Skill: Place Values/Part Part Whole Notes: This is a variation of Idea #2.
Clipart:Dark Cloud + Raindrops Skill: Prefixes Notes: These are versatile, so they will work for matching centers, worksheets (also comes in BW), and digital resources.
Idea #6: Partly Cloudy Suffixes
Clipart: Cloud + Sun + Sun and Cloud Skill: Suffixes Notes: This works really nicely for suffixes with the sun behind the cloud, but you definitely can use it for other skills as well. You can also layer this yourself with clipart ideas.
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.
Wondering what you can create with just 2 pieces of clipart? Here are some ideas! Would be best if the 2 pieces are somewhat related to each other.
With each idea, come up with your variations using other clipart themes!
The Ideas
Idea #1: Magic Wand + Cloud Matching Center
Clipart:Magic Wand + Cloud Skill:Base 10 Blocks Notes: The wand only provides space for a number of a letter, but the cloud gives a lot more. So it’ll work for anything counting, addition, alphabet, etc.
Idea #2: Burger + Fries Matching Center
Clipart:Burger + French Fries Skill:Homonyms Notes: The text and visuals don’t always have to be inside the clipart to create matching activities. You can create burger and french fries cards and leave all the content in the outside space.
Idea #3: Fishing Rod + Fish Matching Center
Clipart:Fishing Rod + Fish Skill: Adverbs/Adjectives Notes: Some pieces like the fishing rod or the limo are special because they are long enough to fit sentences. That makes them great for specific grammar/phonics activities
Idea #4: Taco + Drink Matching Worksheet
Clipart:Taco + Soda Cup Skill: Addition Notes: Both the taco and soda cup are pretty spacious, so they’ll be great for lots of matching activities. This idea highlights a worksheet where students draw lines to match the addition taco with the correct answer. It can also be a recording sheet for a matching center.
Idea #5: Bee + Hive Matching
Clipart:Bee + Hive Skill:Tracing Lines Notes: Matching things are great for any kind of activities that go from one end to another. Fine motor activities or board games would be good examples.
Idea #6: Flip Flops Matching Worksheet
Clipart:Flip Flops Skill: Addition Notes: Any kind of footwear from boots, sneakers to glass slippers are great for matching activities because they come in both left, and right. In this type of worksheet, students first solve the question, then use their answers to look for the color code.
Idea #7: Cut and Paste Worksheet
Clipart:Washing Machine + Shirt Skill: Addition Notes: Matching things are great for thematic cut and paste worksheets, preferably clipart pieces with enough space for text/other clipart.
(Matching 1 to multiple)
Idea #8: Grill + Steak + Steak
Clipart:Grill + Steak Skill: Multiplication Notes: Instead of matching 1 item to 1 all the time, you can also do 2-to-1 matching. Number bonds are a common use of 2-to-1 matching.
Idea #9: Christmas Tree + Present + Present + Present
Clipart:Christmas Tree + Present Skill: Place Values Notes: Now it’s 3-to-1 matching. You still only need 2 pieces of clipart, even though the presents can come in many colors.
Idea #10: Build a Word with Bubbles + Bubble Bottle/Wand
Clipart:Bubble + Bubble Bottle/Wand Skill:CVCe Notes: Matching things are also great for build-a-word activities, both for phonics and sight words.
Idea #11: Fried Chicken Graphic Organizer
Clipart:Fried Chicken + Chicken Bucket Skill: Adjectives Notes: Graphic Organizers can be really dull and boring, or they can be really fun and delicious. Items with lots of space are fantastic for this.
Idea #12: Worksheet Version of Build a Word
Clipart:Cloud + Raindrop Skills:CVC Notes: This is the worksheet version of a Build-a-Word center. Instead of finding the pieces, students write the letters in the raindrop.
Idea #13: Worksheet Version of MCQ
Clipart:Guacamole + Chip Skill: Number Words Notes: Each of the box on the worksheet is like an MCQ question. The question is in the guacamole cup and the students color the correct chip.
(Matching 1 to a whole row)
Idea #14: Counting On from the Washing Machine
Clipart:Washing Machine + Laundry Basket Skill: Counting On Notes: There are loads you can do by arranging the matching clipart in a row. The first idea is counting on. You can also do counting backwards, or place the washing machine in any of the slots.
Idea #15: Broomstick Patterns
Clipart:Cauldron + Broomstick Skill: Patterns Notes: Patterns are another great application of clipart rows.
Idea #16: Adding 3 lemons/numbers
Clipart:Lemon Squeeze + Pitcher Skill: Adding 3 or 4 numbers Notes: A row of clipart is a fun way to add numbers especially when you are adding quite a few.
Idea #17: Place Values MCQ
Clipart:Watering Can + Flower Skill: Place Value Notes: (not much notes here)
Idea #18: Lemon Basket Rhymes
Clipart:Lemon Basket + Lemon Skill: Rhymes Notes: In this version of multiple choice, there are several correct answers, so kids have to color multiple lemons in each row.
Idea #19: Number Order Bees
Clipart:Honeycomb + Honey Jar + Bee Skill: Number Order Notes: With a little bit of imagination, students can imagine the little bees carrying the words from the honeycomb to the jars.
Idea #20: Finding Facts
Clipart:Magnifying Glass + File Folder Skill: Addition Facts Notes: Like in the previous example, there can be multiple answers in each row. Students will find all the correct files and color them.
(Others)
Idea #21: Sandwich Sorting Worksheet
Clipart:Sandwich + Picnic Basket Skill:Ending Blends Notes: This is a worksheet version of a sorting activity. Instead of moving the pieces, students write the words in the correct box.
Idea #22: Flip and Cover/Bump
Clipart:Squeeze Bottle + Sauce Splat Skill: Sight Words Notes: You can create flip and cover activities with just 2 clipart. Having multiple colors of each of the clipart does make it more interesting.
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.
Welcome to the first of 14 chapters! This series aims to show you how to use clipart like a pro.
You will find lots of ideas to help you create fun and engaging teaching resources for your classroom and your TpT store.
As you look through the ideas, come up with your own clipart substitutions to create more engaging themes!
The Ideas
Idea #1: Popsicle Matching
Clipart:Popsicle Top and Bottom Skill:Ending Digraphs Notes: The other ideas here use 1 single piece clipart, but for this particular example, the top and bottom of the popsicle already exist as separate pieces. They can be great for digital drag and drop resources.
Idea #2: Pie Matching
Clipart:Pie Skill:Compound Words Notes: When you cut along the line in the middle of the pie, the pie gets turned into a matching puzzle. If you are creating for digital version, you can crop half the pie on each side.
Idea #3: Gingerbread Matching
Clipart:Gingerbread Skill: Number Words/Place Values Notes: In the earlier examples, the texts are all within the thematic clipart, but it does not always have to be. Leaving the text outside gives you more space and more freedom with the shape of the puzzle.
Idea #4: Ninja Kids Matching Strips
Clipart:Ninja Kids Skill: Addition and Subtraction Facts Notes: If you have a longer/taller piece of clipart, you can create a 3-piece matching puzzle. They are ‘self-checking’ since the kids can see if they picture turns out right.
Idea #5: Phonics Strip Puzzles
Clipart:-ALE Skill:CVCe, Alphabet Notes: In this case, the clipart is divided into as many strips as there are letters.
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.
Here are some ideas to help you get the most out of my Picnic Kids clipart! The goal is to create fun and engaging learning resources for your kiddos and TpT store 🙂
Use as many of these ideas as you can:
with different targeted skills
with different activity types
with different themes
Idea #1: Bagging Pretzels (Make 7)
Idea #2: Sandwich Kid + Sandwiches (Roll and Race)
Idea #3: Matching Pies (Compound Words)
Idea #4: Picnic Ants Sort (Alphabet)
Idea #5: Picnic Basket Worksheet
Idea #6: Picnic Fruits Task Cards (Place Values)
Idea #7: Picnic Scene + Strip Puzzles (Number Sense)
