There are so many creative people out there and I’m thankful that I am able to reach their work and ideas, especially when these are kindly offered and can really inspire me and  my work! Such is the case with  patternsforcolouring (the first two pictures) and doodle-art-alley  (the third picture belongs to this site), where amazing colouring pages can be spotted. All you need to do is choose a pattern you like, download it, print it out and start colouring. The colouring pages in  patternsforcolouring are offered under a Creative Commons licence (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 UK).

I particularly like these sites, because there are artistic colouring pages, like the ones above, that can generate writing activities.  I am thinking of using the “kitties” one as a prompt for a cartoon-like dialogue among the kitties, after the pupils colour, cut and stick their figures on a seperate sheet of paper. I will ask my pupils to write summer themed dialogues and this is going to be a cute activity for the last days of this school year. 

I can do something similar with the “Happy” one. The children can assort their colouring with sentence completion:

In summer I am happy because…

Summer makes me happy because…

In summer there are a lot of happy moments. I like…I usually…

As for the underwater scene, it is a game itself since it belongs in the Blopper category, where the colouring pages hide irrelevant figures. When the students have spotted them, they can simply label them or even create a story according to their level.

Great! I have new activities for this year’s last class! What are you planning to do?