These easy popcorn art accents are highly motivating to writers and reward them for the work! In addition, they add color and charm to each child’s story. These popcorn art accents can be used with any writing prompt about popcorn!
LINED PAPER WITH A BORDER
For all of my writing classes, students write on bordered paper. That way they can decorate the border around their writing with an art accent.
You can print and use this paper as well. Here is the paper for Grades K-2 and Grades 2-7. Here’s a printout of a border with no lines to use with very early writers.
NOW FOR THE IDEAS!
PEN
- Have your students use pen to draw popcorn.
Marker
2. Have your students use marker to draw a box of movie popcorn.
Watch the Pops!
3. Pop popcorn for your students to enjoy! To read the full post about my favorite popper, click here.
4. Glue some of the pops around the border.
Writing Prompts!
Here are the prompts that I’ve posted so far are:
A Popping President-A Fictional News Article
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Fun Facts
Take this lesson a step further and show the kids how popcorn works. This 3 minute video shows how it works:
