Use AutoShapes in PowerPoint to create a Wild

Thing animal. Drag the Basic Shapes and any

other shape menu off AutoShapes so that they
sit on the page for quick easy access.
Drag Order and Rotate and Flip menus off the
Draw menu.
Colour the shapes by using Fill Effects (in
PaintCan ) and click on the Pattern Tab.
Choose two different colours and then click on a
pattern, click Ok to add to your shape.

Group your shape by clicking and dragging

around it and then go to Draw-Group. You can
now change the size of your animal by clicking
and dragging on a corner.
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 Draw an animal in Paint or Artrage. Select the
drawing by clicking on the Select tool .
Copy/paste to a slide in PowerPoint and then
children can type a sentence about their
animals.

If you save the picture as a jpeg in a folder you will be able to

use it again many times in this unit.

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 Emergent, Early &
Fluent

Draw an animal in Paint or Artrage. . Select the

drawing by clicking on the Select tool . Copy/paste to
the Word Animal Pictures files (Emergent, Early or
Fluent). Print out the whole page. Children can then
write on the publishing lines.
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 Create your Wild Things from AutoShapes.
Children have to click and drag them to
make the Wild Thing again; they can then
compare them with the finished one.
Remind children to always click and drag
from the middle of the shape.

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Insert your Wild Thing into the
Kidspiration ‘Wild Animal Description’ file
and fill in the boxes describing your Wild
Thing!

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 Find a background photo (habitat) and
insert into PowerPoint. Add a graphic of
an animal. Add a text box and type in a
story about what is happening. Duplicate
that slide and add another graphic or two
and update the story. Repeat these steps
until the story is told.

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 A rebus replaces words with pictures.
Highlight the word and then insert a graphic

or insert a photo .

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This is an activity that can be done at the end of the
unit. Use children’s drawings in Paint, AutoShape
animals and take photos of them dressed up as
Wild Things and photos of their art work. Insert
these into an A –Z PowerPoint with Names for each
letter of the alphabet and descriptions of the Wild
Thing.

© Jacqui Sharp 2007 Activity 8