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Animal avatars

Design and colour avatars for animal usernames.

Paper

Felt pens

Prep time: 5 minutes

Activity time: 15 minutes

Activity

Display a list of ten made-up animal usernames such as giggling Giraffe or colourful Camel.

Ask makers to pick one and draw their avatar.

A graphic of 6 different animals that have been deisgned by different people. There is a laughing lion, a colourful zebra. A royal cat, a party shark, a space dog, and a dancing turtle.

Build on this

Word art: Ask makers to write their username in a creative way. Think about colours, fonts, patterns and size.

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