Year-Long Directed Drawing & Writing | Writing Activities | No Prep

Build your students’ writing confidence with these fun Year-long Directed Drawing activities! These no prep activities will encourage students to be creative and increase their writing confidence. Featuring 6-step directed drawings and guided or regular lines, these various directed drawing resources are perfect for students in kindergarten, first grade, and second grade.

Use these directed drawing activities as:

• a fun writing center
• a brain break
• during indoor recess
• morning work / in a morning tub
• a whole group activity
• whenever you have extra time to fill

To build student writing confidence even more, you can display these writing pages as a bulletin board, or use them in your author & illustrator of the week bulletin board!

What’s Included?

• Year Long Directed Drawings

SEASONS/HOLIDAYS:

1. Mother’s Day
2. Earth Day
3. Spring / Easter
4. St. Patrick’s Day
5. Valentine’s Day
6. Thanksgiving
7. Winter
8. Christmas
9. USA-Themed for July 4th
10. Back to School
11. Halloween
12. Veteran’s Day
13. Fall / Autumn
14. Thanksgiving
15. Summer
16. New Year
17. Holidays Around the World

OTHER THEMES:

1. Ocean
2. Pirate
3. Space
4. Fairy Tales
5. Weather
6. Zoo

PHONICS:

1. CVC short a

Why use directed drawings?

• allows students to get creative
• gives drawing ideas to students who can’t choose a topic
• drawing assists with motor skills and pencil grip
• gives students a fun topic to write about
• builds writing confidence

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