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This cell phone all about me art and writing activity is ideal for the first week back to school. It’s a fun way for you to connect with your new students. They love their phones and respond enthusiastically to this ‘cool’ activity.

Invite them to construct a fold-out booklet-style ‘art-phone’, and respond to image-making prompts on the front cover and the written elements inside.

Ideal for use as a back-to-school icebreaker and community-building activity.

1. The front cover of the cell phone activity:
Invite students to respond to and illustrate the 9 questions or prompts, with thumbnail doodles or drawings:

• Age
• My family
• Best food
• Favorite animal
• Favorite colour
• Best subject
• Dream destination
• I love…
• I don’t like…

2. The fold-out inside pages:
This section is designed in a text message style, and asks more investigative questions and prompts:
• How will you achieve your goals?
• What support do you need?
• What do you like most about school?
• What do you like least about school?
• My top 3 goals
• 5 fascinating facts about me
• People like me because
• Open-ended questions to complete, I aim to… I wonder if…I imagine that…. I feel….

Please note this activity includes 2 sizes of art-phone templates to choose from:

Smartphone size 3.7x7.3 inches
Tablet size 5 x 10 inches

Students can also opt to do the one-dimensional cover or the full fold-out option with written responses, depending on time available, age, and ability.

Templates with UK/CAN/NZ/AUS spellings for ‘favourite and colour’ templates are included in the pack along with US spellings.

What materials are needed?

• Use card stock for best results - the phones will be more robust!
• Scissors and a glue stick
• Pens/pencils/felt tips for the artwork and written work
• These templates are designed to print on US letter/A4 size paper

Considerations and how to use this activity:
• Encourage students to move beyond words, and ‘draw their answers’
• Consider the space around the images they draw
• How do the 9 images look collectively?
• Is there an emerging theme, style, or colour?

• What colours do we associate with words?
eg carrot: orange and green
• How do students feel about the first week back to school?
• It’s OK to express dislikes as well as likes, our fears, along with our hopes

The completed phones slip comfortably into a back pocket for play.
Peg them up collectively as a classroom banner or decorate a wall, door, or your bulletin board

Further activities included in the packet:

1. All About Us display banner
2. Abstract colouring activity, exploring warm and cool colors

Please contact me if you have any questions regarding this resource, I am always keen to help,

Thanks!
Diane

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