Creating Christmas Calendars with MS Powerpoint

Many homes in Australia have Christmas or Advent calendars in their home. Each day of December,through to Christmas, children open the appropriate door for that date, and find either a chocolate or a Christmas image. Do you have one in your home?

Students in years 4 to 7 are going  to make a digital calendar using MS Powerpoint. It is a simple enough process for all age groups and yet can be customized to suit the young and old. The students will follow these instructions using the image below as a guideline. Each date will open using a chosen custom animation feature of Powerpoint.

Instructions:-

• Goto MS Powerpoint
• Insert a table> 5 rows by 5 columns, add a clipart( representing Christmas) to each cell.
• There should be 25 Chrismas pics in total, with a very special Christmas pic in the last one
• Cover each cell with a shape
• Add numbers to each cell from 1 to
• Use custom animation to remove the shapes one at a time.
• Grab a screen dump, crop in MS Paint, save as a jpg and insert the image into your blog post, with a brief explanation on how you made your colourful calendar.

Below is an example of a calendar that Catie13 is working on

Have you done something like this with your students?

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