No-screen activities

 

Today is another normal lockdown day in our house.  "Normal" consists of my daughters, my husband and I working at home, all on screens for most of the day.  I try to stay away from screens at the weekend (not always very successfully) for a break.  

Understandably, there have been a lot of requests recently for no-screen activities for students.  Here's what I can offer for languages:

• Lumen's Language Challenges: art and craft challenges with a languages focus. These are the ones that I have done, to give you some ideas.
  
  
• Make a minibook!  There are lots of different kinds, and you can read all about them on this blog as well as downloading a free publication containing all the information.
  
  
• Create a calligram: You can read all my blogposts about them here, or download this free publication which tells you all about them.
  
  
• Students could also complete a number of different no-screen activities and put them towards Lumen's French Award, Lumen's Spanish Award or Lumen's German Award.

Everything you need to know about Tarsia, calligrams and minibooks

Recently I have added some more free resources to my online shop.  They are a series of pdf "Everything you need to know about..." guides.

You can choose from:

• Everything you need to know about Tarsia in the language classroom
• Everything you need to know about calligrams in the language classroom or
• Everything you need to know about minibooks in the language classroom

Each resource is a compilation of posts from this blog and other documents that I have made to support these topics.  I thought it would help you to have everything in one place instead of having to search through various sites.

French and Spanish Art

It's the time of year when schools are having French days or Spanish days and need things to fill them, or when teachers want an artistic activity to fill in a spare lesson here and there.  Here are the ideas previously mentioned on this blog, that may come in handy for such an occasion:

Klee letters - combining art and writing

Vision On!  - creating art out of words

Magical Miró - ideas for exploiting the images of Joan Miró

Decorative Letters - making illuminated texts

The Shape Game - creating an image out of a shape

Imprinting Verbs - creating characters to inspire writing

Moorish Mosaics - making mosaics and exploring symmetry

Gaudí's Mosaics - making mosaic suns inspired by Gaudí

Guatemala - traditional patterns and textiles

Bend it, shape it, any way you want it - using plasticine and play doh

Food flags, informative flags - creating flags out of food, words, images...

Calligrams - converting text into images

Calligrams part 2 - creating calligrams using outlines and stencils

World Cup calligrams

Letter by Letter - make personal calligrams from your initials

Minibooks!