Grab a Gumball Writing Craftivity

Are you looking for the perfect writing template that will have your students excited to write? This super adorable Gumball writing template will suit any occasion. With the theme of listing items, students write out 6 different things they ‘chews’.

Examples include:

• Back to school writing template –  students write what the choose to do this year.
• End of year writing template, students write about what the choose to do over the holidays.
• As a first week of school getting to know you activity where students write what are 6 of their favourite things.

The “Gumball Writing Craft Activity” is designed for students to record things the choose, write about them and build a fun gumball machine to display with their work. 

The resource includes four pages: A set of instructions for students to follow, a two-page gumball craft to cut out and assemble, and a writing prompt organiser to write on. You can help your students “chews” what they are going to write about.!

✂️ Give Them the (Safety) Scissors 

This template makes for a bonus cutting skills activity, depending on your students’ ages and abilities. 

With adult supervision, cutting skills help students work multiple muscle groups and their brains, plus:

• Strengthen finger and hand muscles
• Build dexterity and fine motor skills
• Improve hand-eye coordination
• Develop focus and attention

And all of these skills are necessary to use a pencil and a fork; button a shirt and tie shoes; write, type and swipe.

Scissor skills are brain and muscle skills! 

Print and Go Classroom Resources!

Click the download button to download your PDF copy of the file. Copy a set of pages for each student and set them to work! Alternatively, use the Google Slide or PowerPoint version and edit the template to suit your needs. Here are some examples:

• This year I ‘chews’ to…
• These holidays I ‘chews’ to…