All About Me T-Shirt Art Activity: Back to School Printable Worksheets (Digital Download)

This all about me T-shirt art and writing activity makes the first week back to school fun!
Engage your upper elementary and middle school students, helping with community building and reducing anxiety during the first week back to school. Ideal for homeschooling and in the classroom.

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Description

Using these low-prep T-shirt art and writing templates in the classroom, you will learn interesting facts about your students, while classmates enjoy sharing and getting to know more about each other too.

What’s included in this all about me back to school activity?

1. T-shirt drawing activities
There are 15 sections to respond to prompts with mini drawings and doodles. Prompts include self-portrait, name, age, grade, favorite color, fruit, vegetable, sport, movie, song…
A selection of creative template options are available, you can choose according to the age and ability of your students. For example, confident students can use a blank template and draw their own lines and boxes to fill in.

2. T-shirt writing activities
There are 15 questions / prompts to respond to in written format. These include my top 3 goals this year, something I like at school, something I find challenging, if I were a superhero, I can make the world better by, I feel happy when, I feel sad when, I aim to, I wonder if.....
Choose from additional writing templates to explore goal setting and summer memories
Untitled lined T-shirt templates are included for you to use in your own way

Learn about the artist Piet Mondrian
The T-shirt templates are inspired by the artist, Piet Mondrian's abstract work.
This resource includes a poster and garlands to help create a colorful, welcoming and inspiring classroom.
You can also extend the learning by studying Piet Mondrian

Mondrian-inspired early finisher activities
Additional fun doodle pages
Bookmarks to cut out and decorate
Help cut out and display classroom garlands
Additional information

Completed and partially completed T-shirt examples are included for display purposes and to give direction to students who may find this helpful. I used a black ball point pen and colored markers to create a modern, illustrative style to appeal to middle schoolers
UK/Aus/Can templates with 'colour' and 'favourite' spellings are included in the packet.
The templates will match up when glued together, back to back.
Please note that activities have been designed to complete on separate pieces of paper, they are not formatted to be printed back to back on one sheet of paper. Accurate two-sided printing cannot be guaranteed as paper tends to move slightly while printing

Size of templates
The T-shirt templates are designed to fit US Letter and A4 paper size for printing
They measure approximately 25cm and 20cm / 10 x 8 inches
Work big! If you have access to a larger printer, you can scale up to 11x14 or A3 depending on the paper sizes that you use. The templates are vector files so they won't pixelate when you enlarge them

Ideas for use

Build a strong sense of community during the first week back
Safe for shy or nervous students to share about themselves
Meet the Teacher
Open House
Bulletin board displays
ESL students
Students with learning disabilities
Encourage creativity in those less confident
Goal setting and growth mindset
Social and emotional - help students explore their feelings
Welcoming new students
New teacher introduction
Helpful low prep project for substitute teachers
End of Year reviews
Display ideas

These T-shirts make a fabulous display on the bulletin board or pegged up on a line as a garland or 'washing line'
You could also decorate your door or use the T-shirts for personal journal covers or to label students' locker doors
Glue back to back, and laminate them if you would like to refer back to them throughout the year

TERMS OF USE
Copyright © The Imagination Box Ltd
All rights reserved by the author, Diane Pagan

Strictly for personal / homeschool / single classroom use only
This activity cannot be used for commercial use or distributed in any way
Copying any part of this product and placing it on the internet in any form is strictly forbidden.
Doing so is a violation of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA)
By downloading any of my resources you are confirming your agreement to the terms of this single-user license.
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You will receive a single pdf file to download, containing all pages.
No paper goods will be shipped to you.
Print the activity sheets at home on card stock or heavyweight paper or at your local print store.

Thanks for considering my activity,

Diane